Veeam is well known for their high quality management packs for VMWare and Hyper-V monitoring. There is also very detailed documentation around how to install and configure the management packs. One thing I am missing is the unattended installation of the Veeam Virtualization Extensions Service and Veeam Virtualization Extensions Web UI for Hyper-V management pack […]
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PowerShell – Comparing Management Pack Version
I bumped into an interesting problem while writing a custom PowerShell module. The module should compare the management packs from a SCOM management group and some local repository. If the local repository has a higher version number than the currently installed management pack, the script should import the management pack into SCOM. This post should […]
OMS – Where Can I Find the Sealed OMS MPs / Intelligence Packs?
Sometimes you need to have the sealed version of management packs / intelligence packs which get’s downloaded from OMS. You might need them as reference in your custom management pack solutions or maybe just to explore it. You can find the management packs in your C:\Windows\Temp folder on your SCOM server. As you can see […]
SCOM 2012 – Meets MS Flow and Service Bus or How to Translate Alerts
Everything is going international and everything is interconnected. Microsoft is providing many technologies to build bridges between different technologies and systems. I like the idea to build connectors to have a system A talking to system B within a matter of seconds. Microsoft Flow is such a technology which will interconnect systems with each other. […]
SCOM 2016 – Network Monitoring MP Generator Tool
In one of my previous posts, I covered SCOM 2016 TP5 – What’s New and one of the topics mentioned was, that Microsoft will provide a tool to generate SNMP management packs. A what? Ok, let me explain. You are able to monitor network devices via SNMP. Well this is no magic and pretty common […]
SCOM – Comtrade Nutanix MP Beta Release Overview
Last week Comtrade invited me to a demo on their latest management pack product for monitoring Nutanix. Comtrade is / was known for their outstanding Citrix management packs. These management packs cover, the entire monitoring experience from end-to-end and I mean in a real end-to-end experience. At the beginning of this year Citrix bought all […]
SCOM – Authoring History and System Center Visual Studio Authoring Extensions 2015
I usually don’t blog about new releases of management packs or similar things, but this time I feel I have to do so. If you have been working for some time with SCOM, you know there is a (long) history behind authoring MOM/SCOM management packs. Back in the days where MOM 2005 used to rule […]
SCOM 2012 R2 TP3 – Monitoring Apache Web Server
Few month ago, Microsoft released management packs for monitoring open source software like Apache HTTP Server or MySQL databases. In this post I would like to have an overview of monitoring Apache web server. So far there have not been many free options to actually monitor this web server, although it is a very common […]
VMM 2012 R2 – Remove Corrupted SCOM Connector
Yet another interesting SCOM problem. Today I was at a customer for fixing some SCOM issues, respectively to reinstall SCOM. The problem was, that there was a SCOM incl. VMM integration in place. Because of many issues SCOM was removed without properly removing the VMM integration. So if you tried to remove the SCOM connector […]
SCOM – Class Hierarchy & Management Pack Details
If you have been working with SCOM for some time, you want to know more what is going on under the hood. You might want to know, how classes relate to each other or maybe what the management pack contains what kind of elements like monitors, rules, tasks, views and so on. In other terms […]