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Nest Thermostat monitoring pack: Part 3: Create the mp

February 19th, 2014 by

This blog post is part of a series check out the other posts in this series: Part 1: How did I get data Part 2: Get data into SCOM from MySQL Part 3: Create the MP Part 4: Seeing it in action Part 5: Limit the max temperature The Nest thermostat monitoring pack is in …

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Nest Thermostat monitoring pack: Part 2: Get data into SCOM from MySQL

February 19th, 2014 by

This blog post is part of a series check out the other posts in this series: Part 1: How did I get data Part 2: Get data into SCOM from MySQL Part 3: Create the MP Part 4: Seeing it in action Part 5: Limit the max temperature So after we have successfully set up …

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Nest Thermostat monitoring pack: Part I: How did I get data?

February 19th, 2014 by

This blog post is part of a series check out the other posts in this series: Part 1: How did I get data Part 2: Get data into SCOM from MySQL Part 3: Create the MP Part 4: Seeing it in action Part 5: Limit the max temperature I recently bought myself a Nest Thermostat. …

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Monitor your home with SCOM…

February 19th, 2014 by

So I completely refurbished my house recently…. After getting all the painting done and such it’s now time to focus on the toys which we all love in our home. More and more devices are becoming internet connected these days giving you control and surveillance over your house.  A lot of apps on my phone …

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System Center Universe 2014 Houston session video online

February 18th, 2014 by

  Wow I can’t believe it has been already 3 weeks ago that I was able to speak at System Center universe 2014 in Houston. The topic of my session was all about connecting both your on premise SCOM environment with your Azure cloud. The event was a cool experience and a great chance to …

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SCOM: Troubleshoot SQL version is unsupported while upgrading

February 10th, 2014 by

  Upgrading SCOM in a high security environment can be challenging from time to time. You actually need a lot of rights (some of them just temporarily of course) to get things installed. Besides the user rights needed by the user which you launch the install with  ( http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh212808.aspx ) you’ll need access to SQL, …

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Event 20052 Certificate subjectname does not match local computer name

February 6th, 2014 by

  Well… One of the things which really divides the SCOM admins from the normal SCOM users is in my believe installing a gateway server. A lot of things can go wrong when installing one and even if you have done a couple of installs still it sometimes goes haywire. It’s basically a one shot …

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SCOM Gatewayapprovaltool.exe just hangs with no error

February 5th, 2014 by

  While installing a gateway server at a high security level environment I followed my procedure carefully but bumped into a new issue I did not yet encounter. We all know it can be tricky to install a gateway server with the certificate chain and such. Kudos to everyone who does it right the first …

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