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SCOM 2012 – Check DNS Servers And DNS Records / IP MP

In today’s world of IT everything is still heavily depending on DNS. It can be the most sophisticated application / technology if DNS does not work all other parts also won’t work. SCOM offers a good DNS MP which monitors essential parts of your DNS infrastructure. Something that is missing and I think makes sense […]

SCOM 2012 – Encryption Key To Backup Or Not To Backup

Once in a time there comes the question about the encryption key in SCOM 2012 (SP1). Older SCOM administrators were used to backup their SCOM encryption key using the SecureStorageBackup.exe utility in SCOM 2007 R2. This encryption key is essential for restoring a SCOM 2007 R2 RMS server. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc540390.aspx The root management server encryption key […]

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…