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 […]
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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 […]
Orchestrator 2012 SP1 – PowerShell 3.0, Run .Net Activity and Get-SCXAgent
New things are not always good things or at least old habits change. I had been working on some runbooks in Orchestrator 2012 SP1 and needed to run PowerShell 3.0 and the .Net Activity. I installed Orchestrator 2012 SP1 on Windows Server2008 R2 which has PowerShell 2.0 installed natively. Then I wanted to use the […]
SCOM 2012 – Try Linux Nagios Plugins e.g. File Age Check
You might remember MacGyver – a guy who could build a NASA rocket out of some explosives, matches and a steel tube. He was my hero back then but today you could also be a MacGyver by just using the tools you have and just plug it the right way together. That means MacGyver used […]
SCOM 2012 – Linux Two-State Monitor with “Script in Script”
If you are a Windows guy and you haven’t touched Linux so far implementing SCOM will force you to get hands on *nix systems. Here I would like to provide a cool, little way how to overcome a limitation of the Unix/Linux Shell Command Two (or Three) State Monitor. This two state monitor allows you […]
SCOM 2012 – Performance of Linux Processes CPU, Memory…
I am a huge fan of Microsoft and I love to work with Microsoft products but sometimes I like to make a step to the “Dark Side” and put my fingers on Linux . As I frequently answer some questions on TechNet I found an interesting question. How could you monitor processes on Linux and […]
SCOM 2012 – Linux Discovery “Unspecified failure”
Today I had a very interesting error for troubleshooting. A customer has about 150 Linux servers which he wants to monitor using SCOM 2012. The customer could deploy all Linux agents except for 4 Linux servers. After each attempt to discover one of these troublesome servers the discovery wizard ended shortly after the starting with […]
SCOM 2012 – NEW Monitoring Pack for UNIX and Linux OS
Microsoft just released the latest Xplat management packs for System Center Operations Manager 2012. You can find it here
SCOM 2007 R2 CU2 – Deploy Agent to Sun Solaris 10 Zone (SPARC)
Today I had a kind of emergency operation to complete. The customer needed a pre-prod Solaris 10 environment monitored with SCOM 2007 R2. The purpose was to get an idea what he could do and to show other teams what it looks like. There was just one small hitch it had to be now (as […]
SCOM 2012 – JEE Application Availability Monitor Template
In SCOM 2012 you get also new possibilities to monitor your JEE application servers. If you are already monitoring an application server e.g. Tomcat then you will find under the authoring pane new Management Pack Templates. If you deployed BeanSpy and you are doing some deep monitoring with your JEE application servers, the next step […]