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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 […]

SCOM 2012 – Display & Download MPs Using PowerShell Widgets

A nice and sexy way to have the latest management packs at your fingertips is using the new PowerShell widgets. The SCOM product team shows in their example how you could list the management packs using the PowerShell Grid widget. Stanislav Zhelyazkov also provided a script to fully download all management packs with PowerShell. I […]

SMA – Runbooks Not Showing Up (e.g. Cireson SMA Connector)

My colleague and I have been developing runbooks for the past couple of month for automating business services. During this time we have written close to two hundred runbooks. Key application in triggering the runbooks is System Center Service Manager (SCSM) in conjunction with Cireson’s SMA Connector. This works great up to the past month […]