Tag Archives: scom

Speaking at Microsoft Technical Summit 2016

Posted on 03/12/2016 by Marcel Zehner

It’s only a few days until I speak at the largest technical Microsoft conference in Germany. The conference runs from December 6-8 in Darmstadt and I was invited to present my famous “Tesla Management” session.

Posted in Events/Speaking | Tagged azure automation, cortana, log analytics, oms, operational insights, operations manager, PowerBI, powershell, scom, tesla, tesla management 360, vehicle, visual studio | Leave a comment

Speaker @ Microsoft TechNet Event, March 11 2015

Posted on 15/02/2015 by Marcel Zehner

On March 11 2015, I will present two sessions during a Microsoft TechNet in Wallisellen/Switzerland. Together with my fellow itnetx colleagues Markus Erlacher and Martin Wüthrich we will introduce the audience to (parts of) the Windows Server and System Center … Continue reading →

Posted in Events/Speaking | Tagged automation, azure automation, ems, mdm, monitoring, orchestrator, scom, sma, technet, vNext, windows client, windows server | 1 Comment

Microsoft Azure Operational Insights – basics and direct agent communications

Posted on 08/11/2014 by Marcel Zehner

OpInsights is a Microsoft cloud-based service that gives you the ability to collect, combine, correlate and visualize data from your infrastructure without having to build anything on your own. You just need to connect your servers to OpInsight – either … Continue reading →

Posted in Azure | Tagged advisor, analyze, azure, collect, monitor, operations manager, opinsight, scom | 1 Comment

SCOM 2012: Put Cluster Node and Cluster Object in Maintenance Mode

Posted on 07/11/2013 by Marcel Zehner

Maintenance Mode is an important concept to suppress alerts for planned maintenance windows. SCOM allows you to put all discovered in maintenance mode. This could be a Windows Computer, a SQL database or a distributed application. Depending on the activation … Continue reading →

Posted in System Center (without SCSM) | Tagged cluster, maintenance mode, node, om, operations manager, powershell, scom, script | 8 Comments

Network Device Management in the Service Manager CMDB

Posted on 22/06/2013 by Marcel Zehner

If you want to manage network nevices in the CMDB you have two options: Either create your own class and attributes for those devices or use the default classesthat are delivered with System Center. If you choose option 1, you … Continue reading →

Posted in SCSM, System Center (without SCSM) | Tagged cmdb, network device, node, router, scom, switch, sync, synchronize | 3 Comments

Bringing VMware CIs from SCOM to the SCSM CMDB (using Veeam MP V6)

Posted on 02/06/2013 by Marcel Zehner

When using Microsoft System Center to manage VMware infrastructures you will very fast get in contact with the awesome SCOM management pack from Veeam. If you want to know more on how to install and configure this MP, you should … Continue reading →

Posted in SCSM | Tagged ci, configuration item, connector, esx, scom, sync, synchronize, veeam, virtual machine, vmware, vsphere | 2 Comments

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 … Continue reading →

Posted in SCSM, System Center (without SCSM) | Tagged agent, management server, MS, operations manager, scom, scsm, service pack, sp | 2 Comments

It’s all about the Service

Posted on 03/05/2012 by Marcel Zehner

When talking about monitoring and management IT people tend to focus on infrastructure components like servers, network devices etc. This is indeed important, but even more interesting is to have an eye on your applications and services that are consumed … Continue reading →

Posted in SCSM, System Center (without SCSM) | Tagged application, connector, distributed application, integration, scom, scsm, scvmm, service | 3 Comments

Bringing discovered SCOM objects to Service Manager – Part 2/2

Posted on 13/02/2011 by Marcel Zehner

In the first part of this series I showed how to synchronize objects that live in SCOM to the Service Manager CMDB. This works fine, but in some situations it’s possible that objects will not be visible – because they … Continue reading →

Posted in SCSM, System Center (without SCSM) | Tagged class, classes, connector, import, management packs, mp, scom | 5 Comments