Hi everyone, I have exciting news! Starting from today, I will write a series of new weekly posts that will be all about the System Center community members. I am going to write about members that are usually not in the spotlight. I think those members are essential for the community’s continuing growth. I am
You don’t need to use a Microsoft generic Service Level Tracking Summary Report anymore. Savision heard you and decided to collaborate with me on a new project: a user-friendly report that allows you create and export a complete SLA overview of all of your SLOs. Plus it is a FREE community reporting management pack (Click
In the previous post, I shared my experience on how to configure a SCOM APM to get the most from it. In this post, I will write about a SCOM APM Transaction and what an excellent feature it is. At the end of this short article, I am sure, you will discover that if you
The APM is an abbreviation of Application Performance Monitoring. It monitors application code. For example, when you click on a button in an application the APM runs in the background and tracks your activity. The APM can help us catch bugs easily. For instance, a development team that I work with had an unpredictable application
Why this computer still exists in the SCOM console? I swear that I deleted it! If you are an SCOM administrator you probably heard this before, if not trust me you will. This is a known issue at SCOM. It is a very mysterious one. I call it the “orphaned object”: It is an object
If you’re just like me, a big fan of SCOM and open source projects on GitHub, then you are probably already involved in open source project. How about a new SCOM challenge? Five months ago I published a project on GitHub– Monitor Applications Using SQL Queries. I challenged my counterparts to write a guide and/or
We need to disable all performance data collection rules and instead collect those performances by other more suitable systems such as Elasticsearch or Splunk. Don’t get me wrong SCOM is a fantastic platform for monitoring, it has a very sophisticated discovery engine, great self-monitoring agent capabilities, operation tasks, alerting and monitoring. They are all great,
Two years ago one of my project managers came to me with a request for monitoring the project he is responsible for. The project services different complex applications. This request was unique because he wanted to make sure that none of the applications that use the service have a problem. So, I had one of
Once in a while, a disaster happens and when it happens, the first question will be which servers were affected? Unfortunately, the answer to this question is not accurate. You are probably thinking that I am wrong. Since the “Failed to connect to computer” alert will pop up when the agent will stop sending a
