Bob Cornelissen Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) has been around for many years as you all know. In most cases this runs in a datacenter and monitors your datacenter resources, such as infrastructure, servers and applications. The last few years more companies have been adopting cloud and hybrid workloads as well as datacenter workloads. We have … Read more
We occasionally get questions from the community about monitoring mountpoints. Either for Exchange mount points or SQL servers with mount points. Lately I saw one for Exchange Mount Points and SCOM. Now, the thing is that Exchange has a lot of built-in monitoring scripts whether you use a monitoring product such as SCOM or not. … Read more
Hi all. After encountering some problems at a location with the installation and running of SCOM, which was related to SQL Authentication settings, it is time to write up a blog post about it. I also have a bit of information about what happens if you do not set this up right. Theory In the … Read more
Hello friends from the SCOM and monitoring community! I want to take this opportunity to call out a few leaning opportunity regarding both SCOM and also Cloud technologies, so bare with me. First of all, TopQore offers a range of SCOM certifications and trainings, from Operator to Administrator and soon Specialist. You can find the … Read more
SCOM monitoring evolves constantly, sometimes through versions and features of the product and sometimes through the Management Packs. Today I want to talk about monitoring certificates and CRL’s for Windows servers and PKI. For years this was covered through a community management pack created by Raphael Burri and is maintained on Github over here. I … Read more
If you are using SCOM MMA agents, and you have them connected to Azure Monitor Log Analytics, you will want to take a look at this. The SCOM agents used to use SSL V1 to connect up, and this older version of communication will be closed on 1 November 2022. Meaning that from that point … Read more
A few days ago, Microsoft announced changes to the docs and learning experience. As you know I am a big advocate for continued learning and for connecting with the community. If you go to Learn.microsoft.com you will see the combined experience, between learning and certifications, Q&A forums, Documentation, Showcasing, Examples and more: Note: Picture taken … Read more
Hello SCOM enthusiasts. This is an announcement that we will be doing a webinar with our friends from SCOMathon about SCOM 2022 migration. On Tuesday 27 September at 4 PM CEST, we will be presenting a webinar for the SCOMathon Coffee Break sessions. The topic is going to be about SCOM 2022 Migration, for which … Read more
Hello friends. This is an announcement that we will see another HackaSCOM this year in 2022! Dates: 29 and 30 November 2022 Organization: SCOMathon Judges: Stoyan Chalakov, Bob Cornelissen, tbd… Contestants: Come on and take the challenge to take on several community experts into building a Management pack in record time to solve some challenge … Read more
Lately a good friend of mine, Cyril Azoulay, ran into an interesting issue while in-place upgrading a relatively recent SCOM 2019 setup to 2022 version. Since his blogs are mainly in French, he allowed me to write down his case over here in my own words (since his blog is not out yet). Merci Cyril! … Read more