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SCOM 2012 – Recovery Task Script for Restarting a Windows Service and Depending Services

A while ago there was an issue at a customers side where I had to provide a solution for restarting a Windows service depending on a Windows event log entry. Well this is nothing special and we SCOM guys do it almost every day. The fun part was, that it was a custom service and […]

Support Tools Task in Active Directory Management Pack fails

If you have installed the latest Active Directory management pack and if you try to start an Active Directory related task e.g. DCDIAG, REPADMIN etc. on a Windows 2008 / 2008 R2 domain controller you will receive an error that these files are not found. On Windows 2003 domain controller you had to install the […]

SCOM 2012 Monitoring Cisco UCS – Part 1 Emulator Setup

In an ideal world scenario everything you would monitor is from Microsoft but in a real world scenario there are certain situation where you hit a foreign system type from a different company especially if you have to monitor hardware stuff. As in these cloudy days Cisco’s Unified Computing System (UCS) is getting more popular […]