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. […]
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Microsoft Azure Operational Insights – Connecting Without SCOM
I previously blogged about Microsoft Azure Operational Insights (MAOI). There are two ways you are able to connect to MAOI, first and best way 🙂 is using SCOM to connect using it’s built-in connector. Another and very easy way is to just install the Microsoft Monitoring Agent and connect this agent directly to MAOI. How […]
Microsoft Azure Operational Insights – Past, Current, Future
This week Microsoft announced the Microsoft Azure Operational Insights. But what is Azure Operational Insights? Well, it is a cloud based tool which has grown over the past 3 years and it is a good example where you can see how technology evolved.
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 […]
SCOM 2012 – MAS Tool V 1.0
I had a requirement to have some sort of tool to easily enable and disable subscriptions and also close alerts in one shot. Of course my first thought was to use PowerShell, but soon I figured out that there is a lack of functionality. If you try to disable and enable a subscription you will […]
SCOM 2012 – NiCE Log File Library MP Monitoring Robocopy Log File
If you are reading my blog frequently, you know I like excellent ideas, solutions and superb management packs. This time, a company called NiCE is going to provide such a management pack to the community – for free! YES! But first who is NiCE? NiCE is a German company, which has been on the market […]
SCOM 2012 – Effective Configuration Viewer The PowerShell Way
A customer requested to have a capability to get an overview of the effective configured settings for rules / monitors and its values for Windows Computer objects. For some administrators browsing through the SCOM console is just too time consuming and / or too complicated. There are not many ways of providing a simple solution […]
SCOM 2012 – Maintenance Mode Console Tool V 1.0
In my last post I published a GUI based tool to put Windows and UNIX/Linux computer into maintenance mode. After great success, there were requests to have some sort of scheduling mechanism for setting maintenance mode on a regular time schedule. Well, as I have mentioned in my previous post, there are many ways to […]
SCOM 2012 – Maintenance Mode Tool V 1.0
From my customers and also in the forums I hear and read frequently the questions about setting maintenance mode from a monitored server. Let’s assume you are an administrator and you need to put your file server in maintenance mode. How are you going to set maintenance mode? Well there are many ways, let’s just […]