Few month ago, Microsoft released management packs for monitoring open source software like Apache HTTP Server or MySQL databases. In this post I would like to have an overview of monitoring Apache web server. So far there have not been many free options to actually monitor this web server, although it is a very common […]
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SCOM 2012 – VSAE Extend Unix Class For Dynamic Grouping
Some time ago I wrote a post where I extended a Linux class for dynamic grouping using the Visual Studio Authoring Extensions (VSAE). Well, this was just for playing around and testing some stuff. Recently I had a requirement to build views according to Unix teams. There were different Unix / Linux distributions, all kind […]
SCOM – Linux Agent Deployment “Signed certificate verification operation was not successful”
Today I ran into a problem which is not new to SCOM cross-platform monitoring but since this problem will hit you sooner or later it makes sense to write about it. This issue applies to all SCOM versions. It could well be that when you are deploying SCOM agents to your UNIX/Linux server you will […]
SCU 2013 DACH – Session Video “Space Shuttle Launch Exploring other Galaxies with Operations Manager”
System Center Universe DACH ended last week and as you might have seen Marcel Zehner and Stefan Koell have posted some reviews about this event. These guys just bring it to the point. MVP Stefan Koell and I agree that SCU DACH was…
SCOM 2012 R2 Java APM – MP Installation and Configuration (Part 3)
Finally we are going to install and configure Java APM management pack. Just for a small recap, we have a monitored Linux server and a fully functional Tomcat application server in place which is configured for deep monitoring. Cool, huh? Now we would like to get some hands on performance of one of the applications […]
SCOM 2012 R2 Java APM – Configure JEE Application Monitoring (Part 2)
In part 1 we have installed a Linux and Tomcat 6 application server. A must requirement to install and run Java Application Performance Monitoring (Java APM) is, that your application server is deeply monitored using Java Enterprise Edition (JEE) management pack for Tomcat 6. Some time ago I did write a blog post how to […]
SCOM 2012 R2 Java APM – Install Ubuntu / Tomcat (Part 1)
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 […]
SCOM 2012 R2 – Discovery was not successful “Unspecified failure” (Ubuntu 12.04)
Today I have been playing around with some other Linux distribution and I ran into a strange error. I ran the SCOM discovery wizard and the after a few seconds the wizard showed me this error….
Quick Post – Check Linux Certificate Issued by SCOM
I assume you have already deployed SCOM and you are monitoring Linux or another kind of UNIX derivate. If you are new to cross platform monitoring I recommend my older blog posts in the Xplat category . SCOM uses certificates to communicate with the Linux/UNIX agent. These certificates are signed by a randomly chosen management […]
SCOM 2012 SP1 – Upgrading Linux Agent From SCOM 2007 R2
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 […]