Recently, I was fortunate enough to co-host the rather historic SCOM conference – SCOMathon 2020! As evident by the name, it was indeed what it claims to be – A SCOM marathon! 16 straight hours of awesome SCOM content. A dream come true for any and all SCOMers. Being a SCOM lover myself, I got
Recently we noticed an unusual high CPU load on one Domain Controller. – The SCOM Agent was occupying nearly all resources. – This short blog post shows how to troubleshoot and fix issues like this. Problem High CPU load on one Domain Controller. – Taskmanager exposed that System Center Management Service Host Process alternating with
Azure Update Management (AUM) is a free service that helps to deploy patches on servers running in Azure and On Premises (in your datacenter). It provides basic capabilities, but enough to control the whole patch process. While evaluating AUM on a Windows Server 2019 hosted on Azure I noticed that either monitoring with SCOM or
First class analysis of your SCOM environment Silect’s dashboards expose Operation Manager’s health and key performance indicators at a glance. They help to easily understand which data is collected, how much they consume and what are the noisiest elements. Various causes of SCOM performance issues can be identified with a single click! Note: The dashboards
In this troubleshooting tip, Ruben talks about fixing the error you might encounter after you install the Management Pack for SQL version 7.0.15. Introduction After we updated the MS SQL Management Pack to 7.0.15 several servers threw alerts that monitoring isn’t working any more. The error message stated that a WMI query did not return
Recently I was deploying a new SCOM 2019 management group. I had Kevin’s SCOM 2019 deployment guide on the side for reference and to organize a general flow of the process. Everything was going great, until I came to the part of installing the reporting server. Now, I was following the guide closely and had
Ruben is back again with another Powershell banger! This time he presents you a Powershell script that will automatically detect and remove the SQL Express Instances from SCOM monitoring and save you from unnecessary overhead of removing them manually! Introduction SQL Express Databases are a widely used storage for settings in applications or as data
Most enterprises now have either moved to cloud, or are moving towards it. And why not? Running your workloads on cloud services such as Azure frees you up from a lot of maintenance and administrative overheads, and you can use this time to do something better. Here are some major benefits to moving to cloud:
Having worked with both SCOM and Azure Monitor, recently I was asked to compare them both and suggest the right choice. First off, I have a disclaimer to make – Azure Monitor is great, but it can not replace SCOM entirely, not just yet. SCOM 2019 was recently released and it came loaded with some
A few days ago I was in need to export all my SCOM subscriptions and be able to analyze them thoroughly. So I researched for a script/solution online but didn’t find anything particularly useful to my exact requirement. So I decided to write one myself! I wrote a quick version of the script to get
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