Few weeks ago Microsoft released a new management pack for Java Application Performance Monitoring (Java APM). You might are familiar with the .NET Application Performance Monitoring (.NET APM) and now a similar solution is available for Java applications. What is Java APM? SCOM Java Application Performance Monitoring (Java APM) allows you to get performance and […]
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SCOM 2012 R2 – What’s New Overview
SCOM 2012 R2 preview has been released and Microsoft has made some major investments technologies like Java APM (application monitoring for Java), Virtual Machine Manager integration, Azure monitoring and System Center Advisor. Overview:
SCOM 2012 – Unix/Linux Dynamic Grouping Using VSAE Authoring
SCOM is a great tool for monitoring cross platform systems as for example Linux or other Unix derivate. Although Microsoft invested a lot in cross platform monitoring, one thing I am missing is a way for dynamic grouping Unix/Linux systems in SCOM. What is the problem? As you might know in SCOM you can create […]
PowerShell – JSON-RPC 2.0 Interaction Connecting SCOM
SCOM is the best monitoring system on this planet but there are also other systems around. You might find yourself in a situation where you need to get some information from the other monitoring system into SCOM. Because there is probably not a supported connector for SCOM available we have to find a way to […]
Quick Post – Visio 2013 Stencils Bluish Single-Colored
Today I had some conceptual work to do and as this always involves some fancy Visio diagrams, I ran into a problem which might also could happen to you. Microsoft has released great Windows Server 2012 / Office 365 stencils for Visio 2013. You can find them here. As soon you start Visio and import […]
SCOM 2012 Veeam MP for VMware 6.0 – Part 1 Upgrade
About a year ago I wrote a blog post about an excellent management pack from Veeam to monitor a VMware ESX infrastructure. Veeam also released this year their new version of the management pack it is now officially called Veeam Management Pack v6 for VMware. In this post I would like to show a walkthrough […]
SCOM 2012 – UPDATE: SCOM Task Collection MP
A few weeks ago I started with a Task Collection MP found on this post. As I am getting new ideas I will add more tasks to make life easier. In the latest version SCOM Task Collection MP version 1.2.0.0 I added 3 more tasks…
Do you need a .NET application immediately?
Are you sometimes getting nervous and anxious to try new features? But there is always this step before you can start where you have to fulfill pre-requisites in your lab environment until you can start. I is a pain in the ***…this happened to me. There is this lovely DinnerNow application on codeplex, but have […]