System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) has been proven to be a great product to monitor your environment from end to end. It has grown version after version and has in my believe outgrown its status of monitoring only Microsoft Windows already for quite a while now. A lot of management packs are out there, …
Read moreWhen I started to review a SCOM 2012 R2 environment recently I came across an interesting issue I didn’t witness before… Time to blog the solution! Problem The System Center Data Access Service started successfully but stopped within the minute. After investigating I found out that there were at least 2 events logged during …
Read moreThe new year 2014 is not even a couple of weeks old and the first Sysctr events are already announced or planned. Don’t you just love it when the community is buzzing again with new and exciting events just around the corner. System Center Night (22/01/2014 Brussels) My first appointment will be the System Center …
Read moreSystem Center Universe is back in full force on the 30th of January to bring you for the 3th year in a row top notch System Center content. This event is held in Houston Texas but spread through the entire galaxy via a high quality live stream reaching out to all the System Center …
Read moreIn a constant quest to keep your environment running, Disk space is one of the things that need to be available to satisfy your organization’s continuously growing hunger for storage. The price of storage has dropped significantly over the last years but unfortunately the demand for more storage has grown as well as files are …
Read moreMonitors are a very useful addition to SCOM since SCOM 2007 came out back in the days. However for a lot of fresh SCOM administrators the alerts generated by monitors sometimes can create headaches. An alert is raised when a state is changed and closed when the state changes back to the health condition. This …
Read moreOn the 11th of June I gave a LiveMeeting on how to get started quickly with SCOM 2012. I started after a fresh install of SCOM and got through the routine of getting you started quickly by: Performing a post install health check Configuring reporting Configuring the retention of the datawarehouse Deploying your agents …
Read moreSo you are quietly working in your office on a cloudy morning when all of a sudden the IT manager walks in and drops a bomb: “Hey we are going to use System Center Operations Manager to monitor our systems from now on so throw away all your little monitoring tools and get at …
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