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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SCOM / SCSM – Retrieve Decrypted RunAs Account Credentials
I am not sure if you have seen it, but Richard Warren from nccgroup has figured out, how to decrypt the RunAs account credentials in SCOM. The problem up to now was, that there was no official way to retrieve the encrypted credentials from SCOM. There is just one DLL to use, which offers the […]
SCOM – Extensible Network Monitoring Management Pack Generator Tool
Microsoft just released the Extensible Network Monitoring Management Pack Generator tool which allows you to build custom SNMP management packs. In my previous post SCOM 2016 TP5 I have written a post about the prototype of this tool which was command line driven. I addressed some missing parts like a GUI, custom SNMP components and […]
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 […]
Azure Automation – ISE Add-On Editing Runbooks
Well it has been a while since last post, because there is a lot going on in my private life as also in my job. But now some “tasks” are completed and I will have more time for community work again. Microsoft product machinery is running at high speed in all areas. One tool I […]
Quick Post – Influence SCOM vNext Features aka “SCOM Wish List”
It is not quite Christmas yet but you are right now allowed to submit your wish list for SCOM features and improvements! The SCOM product team opened yesterday a feedback form for submitting any ideas for SCOM vNext. There might be things you are missing, things you hate how they work or you just have […]
SCOM 2012 R2 Technical Preview 2 – What’s New?
Few days ago Microsoft released the technical preview of it’s Windows Server and System Center stack. One thing I am very interested in is SCOM, if there is anything new. Find all System Center TP 2 downloads here Find Windows Server (2016) TP 2 here If you download SCOM in comes on a pre-configured VHD […]
System Center – RSS Feeds Collection
It doesn’t matter If you are new to the System Center stack or if you have been working many years in the System Center field, we all share the same problem. How are we keeping up with this massive amount of information dropping in every single day? There are so many excellent sources out there […]
Microsoft Azure Operational Insights – Mobile App Available
I have blogged previously about Microsoft Azure Operational Insights which is still in a preview stage and you can test it free of charge. Microsoft did already a great job visualizing all the data collected by the Intelligence Packs. At this moment you are also able to have all this information on your Windows Phone. […]
Jalasoft – Xian SNMP Device Simulator V5
At some point in your SCOM career you need to have quick access to a network device because you either need to show the SCOM network monitoring capabilities, develop a SNMP management pack or you might need to build some custom SNMP monitors or rules. I think it is always a pain to carry a […]