Operational monitoring tools including System Center, Azure Monitor
SCOM hotfix released for WebConsole/APM on SCOM2012R2 and above, time for another SCOM shot! Don’t forget your vaccination card 🙂 Let’s get started. Time to fix the vulnerability for ‘SCOM hotfix released for WebConsole/APM on SCOM2012R2 and above’. Read the support article, and assess what versions you have in your sandbox and production. Once …
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Use Get-WinEvent to use XML and filters from event viewer, to mine an event, including examples for a specific string, from a specific event, in a specific event log? Hopefully this post will help with a few tips to simplify monitoring for events, whether in AzMon, SCOM, or via PowerShell. …
Hey guys, don’t forget python as pre-req for agent install! Came across this again, where the docs site doesn’t mention python-ctypes as pre-req for agent install. Let’s flip to GitHub for the agent. GitHub lists the python pre-req here. Otherwise, it’s Openssl 1.1.0 is only supported on x86_64 platforms (64-bit). Let’s begin …
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Updated 14 Mar 2019 If you get these exceptions like me, the issue has been raised, with a deliverable targeted for SCOM2019UR1. Disable the rule to reduce noise. Are you using Service Map Management pack, and getting errors? This alert is based on the 46651/46652 event ID in …
Had some questions come up from the community to check the Log Analytics agent version. Depending on how you are setup, the SCOM Integration makes this easy with Holman’s blog for the agent management pack. If you have admin right in Operations Manager console then you can check this directly from SCOM server: If you …
I blogged about this last year here As best practice, the Upgrade Analytics script checks for far more than just injecting the workspace key and telemetry value. FYI – This could also be managed in an SCCM Compliance setting. Paul Fitzgerald – Platform PFE blogged about a non SCCM method here …
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Golden Oldies – always popular (tools vs music) Old Holman blog that’s still relevant, even more powerful than EventLog Explorer Basically anyone who wants to test fire events off a SCOM MP should use this tool. Event Create, write-eventlog all have limitations (certain event sources that can be used to create events, or event ID number …
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Sometimes we forget about tools that can make things easier. Time to talk about EventLog Explorer. Need to repro and test events for an installed program, to see what SCOM will handle? Read this old mom team blog, courtesy of Kevin Holman blog I wanted to try it to test fire some …
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Decoder ring applies! OMS is Log Analytics is Azure Management Solutions. Do you want to add solutions to your Azure subscription? Pre-packaged visuals and insights on your data, whether azure or hybrid. Adding Management Solutions Login to the Azure Portal Click on All Services Type ‘solutions’, hit enter Click …
FYI – Updated 21 October 2021 What are the MMA Agent and SCOM Agent version numbers? This idea sprung from a discussion with Sr. PFE Brian Barrington, and it got me wondering…See below for more details on OMS/MMA, and SCOM agent versions, as well as how to verify agent from PowerShell. …