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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 […]

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 – Find Workflow From Windows Event

When you are deploying SCOM agents to many servers from a test or prod environment, it could happen that a server administrator steps up to you and tells you that he has many strange event log entries which are probably from SCOM. Like in this example here…