In one of my previous posts, I covered SCOM 2016 TP5 – What’s New and one of the topics mentioned was, that Microsoft will provide a tool to generate SNMP management packs. A what? Ok, let me explain. You are able to monitor network devices via SNMP. Well this is no magic and pretty common […]
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SCOM 2016 TP5 – What’s New
Few days ago Microsoft released the technical preview of it’s Windows Server and System Center stack. One thing I am very interested in is SCOM, if there is anything new. To download all new TP 5 products see these links… Find all System Center 2016 TP 5 here Find Windows Server 2016 TP 5 here […]
SCOM – Comtrade Nutanix MP Beta Release Overview
Last week Comtrade invited me to a demo on their latest management pack product for monitoring Nutanix. Comtrade is / was known for their outstanding Citrix management packs. These management packs cover, the entire monitoring experience from end-to-end and I mean in a real end-to-end experience. At the beginning of this year Citrix bought all […]
SMA – Database Grooming Some Things You Should Know
SMA is Microsoft’s on-premise automation engine and the successor of Opalis / Orchestrator. We have utilized this engine quite a lot and have lots of experience developing PowerShell workflows for SMA. But as every system your need to maintain and pamper it, otherwise it will strike back at some point. We recently experienced such an […]
SCOM – How Data is Encrypted
Recently I got a question from a customer how SCOM traffic is encrypted. Well, I knew that the traffic IS encrypted, but how the encryption works, that is a different story. First we need to know, about what traffic we are talking about. Is it the communication between agents , respectively healthservices? Is it the […]
PowerShell – SCCM Cmdlet Library “Get-CMDeviceCollection : Specified cast is not valid.”
UPDATE: This issue has been resolved in the latest version here https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=46681 While doing some SCCM automation we bumped into an issue with the SCCM Cmdlet Library 5.0.8249.1128. When you try to execute a workflow using PowerShell Remoting in SMA like this… After some investigation we could not determine the cause of it, so the […]
OMS – Price & Size Calculator
You might have already heard of Operations Management Suite (OMS) or you are already using the free OMS version which is great, besides the limitations :). Now you are deciding to actually buy a licenses for your company and you don’t know how much the licenses will cost. Luckily Microsoft has created an online calculator […]
OMS – Agent for Linux Troubleshooting Help
In my previous post I introduced the OMS Agent for Linux. This time I would like to give you some troubleshooting starting points. There are countless possibilities for errors to occur, so it is nice to have at least a consolidated list where to find a log or configuration file. This should give you a […]
System Center Europe 2015 – Session Recordings
Back in August, the yearly System Center Universe Europe event was held in Basel-Switzerland. Around 420 attendees joined this event and it was a great success. Here some more short facts… 420 people from 20 different countries 19 sponsors (thank you!) 62 breakout sessions 8 early morning discussions Multiple parties for fun and networking If […]
SCOM 2012 R2 UR7 – Error Running Data Warehouse SQL Script “Invalid object…”
I have been doing SCOM updates for the past few years and I rarely bumped into any issues. If you stick to the recommended procedures, then you will succeed. But recently I bumped into an issue while updating SCOM 2012 R2 UR7. As you know there are installer files which you must run on each […]