#DPM 2012 Addendum management pack #sysctr
Posted by Daniele Grandini in DPM, MP Development, System Center on February 6, 2015
Today is an exceptionally snowy day, power is on and off again, lovely day to write something using my surface battery power. Today subject is DPM SLA monitoring. In my experience monitoring is just a matter of perspectives. Whichever is yours, it’s always useful to have very actionable alerts and begin able to predict systems […]
#scom OS MP 6.0.7294.0 serious flaw
Posted by Daniele Grandini in Bug, SCOM on January 13, 2015
a new MP has been released that should fix the issue. Not tested yet. Just a quick warning to all the SCOM admins reading. The latest OS MP (6.0.7294.0) has a serious flaw with logical disks performance collection. Basically it squares you collected perf data points for logical disks. Based on your environment this can […]
#SOFS logical configuration reference
Posted by Daniele Grandini in Failover cluster, powershell, SOFS on December 29, 2014
Scale-out File Server (SOFS) is a great new technology we can find in Windows 2012 R2 (debuted in 2012). We have endorsed SOFS with or without storage spaces (see Aidan blog). In either cases SOFS is a great NAS solution based on SMBv3 that can be leveraged by Windows OS (file sharing, hyper-v vhdx, SQL […]
Kemp LoadMaster #scom Management Pack v2
Posted by Daniele Grandini in MP, MP Development, SCOM, SNMP on October 30, 2014
Together with my fellow MVP Stanislav Zhelyazkov (@StanZhelyazkov) we just released version 2 of our community basd Management Pack for Kemp LoadMaster devices. The MP is currently available on Codeplex (https://kemplmmp.codeplex.com/) and on Technet Gallery (https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Kemp-LoadMaster-Management-8bb05e11). In version 2 we: optimized the discovery process fixed several minor annoyance related to discovery added CPU, Memory and […]
Progel Libra Esva Management Pack for #sysctr #scom released
Posted by Daniele Grandini in MP, MP Development, SCOM, SNMP on August 22, 2014
Following up with my SNMP management pack development series I just published on codeplex (https://qndsnmp.codeplex.com/) a complete management pack to monitor Libra Esva antispam devices. The management pack is pretty complete for a v 1, even if there are a few caveats: it lacks the presentation artifacts when the devices are configured in an High […]
