SCSM 2012 SP1 (Beta) – Monitoring Management Servers with SCOM 2012

Posted on 29/09/2012 by Marcel Zehner

Monitoring SCSM 2012 Management Servers with SCOM 2012 was not possible by using SCOM 2012 agents. During an upgrade process from SCSM 2010 to SCSM 2012 you even need to remove the SCOM agent before the upgrade. After a successful upgrade, the SCOM 2012 agent cannot be deployed back to the box. This is due to some shared code. So the only way to monitor a SCSM 2012 Management Server with SCOM 2012 was using an agentless approach … normally not a thing that is preferred. But with System Center 2012 Service Pack 1 Agent-based Monitoring for SCSM 2012 Management Servers is back!

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Creating Custom Service Manager Reports with Parameters

Posted on 03/09/2012 by Marcel Zehner

A while ago I published an article on how to create custom Service Manager reports –> see here. This post is a follow up article that explains how to use report parameters to filter the displayed results. This can be useful if you want to have filters to only display specific records in your report. Read on to see how this works.

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Creating Custom Service Manager Reports

Posted on 14/08/2012 by Marcel Zehner

When you are working with Service Manager, you have some report definitions that are delivered with Management Packs for basic reporting. With SM12, the concept of OLAP Cubes is another method that you can use for getting information out of the data warehouse by slicing and dicing data. This is indeed a much easier approach, but it also has downsides. Without any configuration, cubes are processed on a daily basis, and the data they contain is not real time data. Depending on the exact needs, this can be a show stopper. And maybe the delivered cubes do not contain the data you are looking for. Cusomizing this is even harder that creating reports. So thanks to classical reporting, we have the possibility to create reports in “near real time” without investing too much time. Another positive aspect is, that these reports can be scheduled an delivered automatically. But what if you want to use classical reporting but are not satisfied with the delivered reports? In this post I will show you how to create custom reports from scratch.

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Data Cubes in Service Manager 2012 – Part 3/3 (Creating your own Data Cubes)

Posted on 12/08/2012 by Marcel Zehner

Finally … this is the third part of a series that explains data cubes in Service Manager 2012. The first and the second part have been published in January and February 2012. Sorry for the delay of this last part. This last post of the series will demonstrate how to bring the relevant information to the data warehouse to create a cube based on it. The positive thing is, that I decided to publish some more articles around this topic because there are not many documentations out there that describe this in detail. I will go into much more details  in future posts. But this post should be great for the basic understanding.

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Marcel@SC12 SP1 TAP Airlift

Posted on 07/08/2012 by Marcel Zehner

From September 17th to 19th I will be in Redmond on the Microsoft Campus for the System Center 2012 SP1 TAP Airlift together with SCOM-Master Stefan Roth (http://blog.scomfaq.ch) and Hyper-V-Guru Thomas Maurer (http://www.thomasmaurer.ch). This is my third Airlift and I’m looking forward to three days full of learning, discussing, testing, chatting etc. If you will be there as well and would like to chat a little bit with me, drop me a message Smile

cu in Redmond
Marcel

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Dealing with multiple Management Servers 3/3: Decommission old Management Servers

Posted on 01/08/2012 by Marcel Zehner

Sometimes Management Servers have to be removed from a Service Manager Management Group. This last blog post of the series will explain all the needed steps.

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Service Manager 2012 Workshop – get your seat now!

Posted on 25/07/2012 by Marcel Zehner

Hey all. As part of our Private Cloud workshop series, we have a new workshop for Service Manager 2012 ready for you. Next date will be October 29th until November 2nd 2012, the workshop is held in Bern/Switzerland in German (depending on the requests I will maybe plan another workshop in English later – so let me know if you are interested). All course materials (Slide Decks, Labs etc.) are created by itnetx to guarantee the high quality of the workshops.

Check this link for more information in German and registration –> http://www.itnetx.ch/scsm12—ii2012.html

Hope to see you in October!

cu
Marcel

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Speaker@geekmania 2012

Posted on 08/07/2012 by Marcel Zehner

For the 7th year in a row we are proud to present a complete track at geekmania 2012 – the conference for real geeks Smile Together with other architects and engineers of itnetx we are presenting lots of cool stuff around Microsoft Virtualization and Systems Management at Level 400. So no overview session but pure deep dive! Make sure you save the date today –> October 26th 2012, Zurich/Switzerland

Session list “Private Cloud Track” presented by itnetx:

  • System Center Configuration Manager 2012: Task Sequences Deep Dive
  • Identity Management with System Center Service Manager 2012
  • System Center Orchestrator 2012: Hardcore IT Process Automation
  • System Center Operations Manager 2012: Monitor your own Application
  • Windows Server 2012: Hyper-V V3 – the new generation Hypervisor
  • Windows Server 2012: Storage Management – get ready for “Big Data”
  • A Real World Microsoft Private Cloud Scenario
  • Panel Discussion: Meet The System Center And Private Cloud Solution Experts

To register or to get more details check out the official geekmania-Website. If you are interested to join us as speaker, co-speaker or sponsor please contact us by using our contact form.

Hope to see you in October!

Regards
Marcel

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Dealing with multiple Management Servers 2/3: Load Balance Management Servers

Posted on 08/07/2012 by Marcel Zehner

In the first post of the “Dealing with multiple Management Server” series I demonstrated how to install additional Management Server. This post takes the next steps and will guide you through the process of load balancing your Management Servers.

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Private Cloud Exam 70-247 – my Experience

Posted on 06/07/2012 by Marcel Zehner

Some weeks ago I took the first Cloud exam an posted my experience here. Today I took the second Cloud exam 70-247. This may be (depending on your actual certifications) one of the exams you need to pass to get the new “MCSE: Private Cloud” certification (Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert). Let me share my experience here.

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