Monthly Archives: May 2012

- Nagios + SCOM – Uninstall Nagios Agent remotely using Powershell

I don’t like to clean up very much, but there are certain cases where it really makes fun to clean up. Especially if there a Non-Microsoft product, Powershell and SCOM involved. In my case a customer decided to replace his … Continue reading

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SCOM 2012 / Orchestrator – Monitor for New Knowledge Base Article

Have you ever wanted being notified about new Operations Manager KB article? Your answer will be yes I already have RSS-Reader and stuff like that. But is that cool? Is that the geeky way to do things? Hmm…no. Because I … Continue reading

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SCOM 2012 – Update Rollup CU1

About 1 month after RTM SCOM 2012 receives its first update package. There is a detailed update description and a list with fixed issues. Also the update process is far more easier than we are used to good old times. … Continue reading

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SCOM 2012 – NEW Monitoring Pack for UNIX and Linux OS

Microsoft just released the latest Xplat management packs for System Center Operations Manager 2012. You can find it here

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SCOM 2007 R2 CU2 – Deploy Agent to Sun Solaris 10 Zone (SPARC)

Today I had a kind of emergency operation to complete. The customer needed a pre-prod Solaris 10 environment monitored with SCOM 2007 R2. The purpose was to get an idea what he could do and to show other teams what … Continue reading

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Reset Monitor using SCOM 2012 and Orchestrator – A must have Runbook

There is at least one Runbook each SCOM responsible must have. Are you wondering which? Well, I am sure you are always aware of what kind of alert you are closing. Is this alert beeing generated by a rule or … Continue reading

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SCOM 2012 – Discovery Wizard running forever

I experienced in a relatively small environment that the Discovery Wizard in SCOM 2012 is running forever. I rejected some pending agents which were discovered properly but stayed in a “Installation in progress” state. After I rejected these agents and … Continue reading

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