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Placing all SCOM Management Servers in Maintenance Mode
I was called this morning to find out why monitoring wasn’t working at one clients site…Thankfully it was a short lived trouble shooting exercise but an important lesson for people that are new to SCOM. The first thing I noticed was that every single server in the “Windows Computers” view appeared to have a maintenance […]
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SCOM Network Monitoring Supported Device List
If you’re curious about what Network Devices SCOM 2012 and 2016 will offer Network Monitoring Support for, here’s a useful spreadsheet which you can download from Microsoft that will tell you what you need to know. You can get it here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=51219&WT.mc.
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Installing SCOM AIX (Unix or Linux) Agents behind Chained Gateway Servers
Today I was called to help configure SCOM monitoring for some AIX 7 Servers. Ok, not a hard task as such but during the meeting I found out that I was going to have quite a few hurdles to contend with. These AIX Servers were located in a Customers Network behind some chained gateways and […]
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SCOM Exchange Server Dashboard v1.0
Quite a few of you have emailed me asking about this second dashboard design I’ve been working on. Well I’m happy to say, here it is and it works on all versions of SCOM. Just make sure that you have the Performance Collection Counters turned on in SCOM or the graphs and values will be […]
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SQL MP Version 6.7.2.0
Microsoft recently released a newer version of their SQL Management Pack. You can find it here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=10631
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SCOM 2016 Release Date
Something to look forward to! The release of SCOM 2016 in late September! Read about it here: https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/systemcenter/2016/07/12/system-center-2016-to-launch-in-september/
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SCOM 2012 & SCOM 2012 R2 Daily Check PowerShell Script & HTML Report v2.0…(Released!)
Its been a long time in development but I’m happy to announce my second SCOM Health Check script. This one is over 3500 lines of code, lots of css, html and javascript and its my gift to you guys, the SCOM Community. So what does this new version offer? Firstly, a much, much nicer report. […]
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SCOM 2012 & SCOM 2012 R2 Daily Check PowerShell Script & HTML Report v2.0…(coming soon)
A while back (2014) I wrote and posted a SCOM Daily Health Check script. I would like to thank you all for the positive feedback, comments and suggestions that you provided me with. Soon…I’ll be giving back again with a new and improved version…and it’s considerably improved too! So what’s coming in v2.0? Well, a lot, but […]
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Finding files with parenthesis in the name using Windows Explorer Search (and PowerShell)
Today I had a friend message me and ask how he can find all files that have the text (1) or (2) or (3) in the file name using Windows Explorer as he wanted to delete them. First up I must admit to thinking it was a silly question, after all…just type it into the […]
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Using PowerShell Command Notifications in SCOM 2012
When SCOM produces alerts we have a few ways of notifying people that an alert has occurred. We can simply look in the console and see alerts there. We can send an Email, Instant Message, we can send an SMS or even forward alerts to other applications like a ticketing system. We can also use […]