Archive for category SCOM
Creating SNMP monitoring Management Packs for System Center 2012 Operations Manager – 1 #scom #sysctr
Posted by Daniele Grandini in MP Development, SCOM, SNMP, System Center on May 18, 2013
One of the more asked questions regarding Operations Manager network monitoring is: how can I “certify” my own generic devices? As you may know Operations Manager distinguishes network device3s in two broad families: certified and generic. Certified devices are, basically, “known” devices for which specific monitors and rules have been defined, generic devices are “unknown” […]
Applying Update Rollup 2 (UR2) to OpsMgr 2012 SP1–be warned #sysctr #scom
Posted by Daniele Grandini in Agent health, Bug, Gateway, SCOM on April 19, 2013
This is a quick warning note for the IT Deps who rushed to install UR2 for OpsMgr, Kevin Holman has blogged about his experience “Applying Update Rollup 2 (UR2) to OpsMgr 2012 SP1“, it is as usual a comprehensive guide, but it misses a critical point for the OpsMgr infrastructures who deploy gateway servers. As […]
How to boost the performance widget performance (#sysctr #scom)
Posted by Daniele Grandini in Bug, Dashboard, SCOM on February 21, 2013
Dashboards are a new UI addition introduced with System Center 2012 Operations Manager (OpsMgr), the goal was to build a complete new UI with same look, feel and behavior on every console (fat, web and sharepoint). The goal was right it’s just the implementation that falls short. Anyone who tried the dashboards outside a lab […]
SC 2012 OpsMgr – GSM Troubleshooting quick note (#sysctr #scom)
Posted by Daniele Grandini in Debugging, GSM, SCOM on February 15, 2013
Cameron Fuller has published an excellent blog on GSM troubleshooring (Determining what is going on with GSM using OpsMgr event collection and views (#SCOM, #SYSCTR)). On a quick side note I found myself in the condition of having to troubleshoot GSM and workflow tracing cannot be used. If you try to use workflow tracing for […]
SysCtr 2012 SP1 – ACS upgrade error (#scom #sysctr)
Posted by Daniele Grandini in ACS, Bug, SCOM on February 12, 2013
SysCtr 2012 SP1 – ACS upgrade error When upgrading your ACS infrastructure to SP1 you’re likely to hit the following bug (actually there are two bugs). If this is the case you either have the ACS collector crashing every night when a new partition is created or you don’t have the views for Windows 2012 […]