This week I was working for an international customer. The customer had a SCOM 2007 R2 CU5 infrastructure installed on Windows 2008 R2 SP1 servers with ~800 Windows agents and ~250 Unix based agents which they were going to migrate to SCOM 2012 SP1 UR2 installed on Windows Server 2012 in a side-by-side scenario. Because […]
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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 – Encryption Key To Backup Or Not To Backup
Once in a time there comes the question about the encryption key in SCOM 2012 (SP1). Older SCOM administrators were used to backup their SCOM encryption key using the SecureStorageBackup.exe utility in SCOM 2007 R2. This encryption key is essential for restoring a SCOM 2007 R2 RMS server. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc540390.aspx The root management server encryption key […]
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 SP1 – “Unable to Proceed” Troubleshooting Upgrade Error
As I already have learned in many ways – Don’t assume anything, proof it! Another rule is – What you see is not always what you get. With those two quotes in mind we have to start troubleshooting in IT. Today I spent quite some time troubleshooting an SCOM SP1 upgrade installation. I wanted to […]