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Azure Policy – Export Azure Policy Definitions

If you are moving to Microsoft Azure you immediately have to deal with governance and compliance topics. In Microsoft Azure there is the Cloud Adaption Framework (CAF) which guides you through the journey of moving to Azure. One very important part is cloud governance with all its flavors. One single piece of this governance cake […]

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 Monitoring Cisco UCS – Part 2 Install UCS MP 2.5

In part 1 we build the foundation for monitoring by setting up the UCS emulator. In this part 2 we are going to install the UCS management pack version 2.5. On my SCOM 2012 management server I started the and this will fire up a wizard which we will see now…