A question that pops up a lot is if we can monitor VMware with SCOM. There are actually several options that deliver different levels of monitoring.
Veeam Nworks. A very complete third party SCOM add-on.
http://www.veeam.com/vmware-microsoft-esx-mon…
My opinion is still that books are a great resource to learn about a product. Also for SCOM there are a few around:
System Center Operations Manager 2007 Unleashed
A very complete book about SCOM, written by MVP’s
System Center Operations Manag…
What can you do when you want to learn about SCOM? Well there are a lot of possibilities.
Read books about SCOM (see SCOM Trick 5)
Read the product documentation (see SCOM Trick 1)
Watch webcasts about SCOM
Watch the SCOM superflow. For mo…
Once in a while you will have a question. Something will not work as expected. You discover a bug or SCOM does not react as expected. You might be looking for something special. Well first of all I would suggest to check out the official documentation a…
So what would be the first thing you do after installing SCOM or when you find a new management pack? For most that would be to load the management pack and see what happens. This is usually followed with a lot of alerts coming in and trying to find out…
Alright, let’s face it… we are all IT people. So to generalize, we are stubborn and do not read manuals unless we are forced to. We install products and start clicking away. Until we hit a wall somewhere or we start complaining about something that is n…
I will post a series of entries here in a series called SCOM Tricks.
The purpose of the SCOM tricks is to have a number of short articles that just discuss one small aspect of SCOM. So these can be places where you can find stuff, things you can adju…
For everybody in the know this is not news, but there are still a lot of people who have never been there…..
The Operations Manager Technet Forums.
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/category/systemcenteroperationsmanager
This is a…
During the last MMS 2011 I went to a breakout session from Rory McCaw about must have views and tasks for OpsMgr. While there was lots of good stuff in this session I just want to pull out one that I have not seen used like that before.
In SCOM it is…
This is the last post in the series on how to monitor a service in SCOM. There are a lot of options and I have tried to touch upon the most common and simple in this series. This last post will try to give some directions on further options and links to…