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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 […]

SCOM 2012 SP1 – Part 3: Audit Collection Services (ACS) Testing Cross Platform Logging

In part 1 and part 2 we installed ACS for collection Windows and Linux events. In part 3 I am going to show how the cross platform ACS works in an easy example. In part 2 we had a close look at a specific rule called Delete User. I think this is a perfect example […]

OMS – Linux Agent Send Remote Syslog Messages to OMS

As you know OMS can receive syslog messages from its Linux agents. Well this is nothing special anymore, but there might be use cases where you cannot install a Linux agent or you might have some network devices which need to send syslog messages to OMS because you want to do some deep inspection of […]