Microsoft OMS provide the ability to gather data from a huge variety of sources and to help to visualize this data. You determine what types of data you want to collect based upon the solutions which you activate in your workspace. These are added in the solutions gallery shown below: (check out the new “Containers”…
Last year at the Midwest Management Summit was a blast! I had a chance to co-present with my friend Bob, hang out with a lot of great System Center folks and in general just geek out (for my thoughts on last year’s conference check this out). This year’s session list is looking awesome and I…
Back in 2011 I collaborated with Veeam to develop a whitepaper called “How to manage System Center Operations Manager using Groups“. Since this was written before the release of System Center Operations Manager 2012 (or 2012 R2) this has needed some updates to match the current world of Operations Manager and Veeam. This has been…
Don’t get me wrong, I am actually a fan of Windows 10. I have one system already running on it and I am looking forward to upgrading almost all of my home systems to it. There’s one big exception and this exception is due to Microsoft’s decision not mine. Microsoft has decided not to support…
I am honored to be among the speakers at the upcoming Veeam conference: VeeamON on October 26-29! For those not familiar with VeeamON, this is the second year for the event and this is how Veeam describes it: VeeamON 2015 is designed to connect the world’s leading IT experts and visionaries to learn how to…
Today Microsoft announced the release of OMS for both IOS and Android (in addition to the existing Windows Phone application) at http://blogs.technet.com/b/momteam/archive/2015/10/21/log-analytics-on-the-move.aspx. The mobile applications are available for download at: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/server-cloud/operations-management-suite/mobile-apps.aspx. This blog post will provide the following information: A quick tour of how the OMS experience works on an iPad What doesn’t work the…
Several years ago I wrote a blog post on how to establish a testing environment for monitoring of Oracle (available at https://www.catapultsystems.com/cfuller/archive/2012/03/27/operations-manager-2012-scom-lab-testing-monitoring-for-oracle/). I recently received a request for a follow-up to that one focusing on monitoring Oracle with Operations Manager. The good news is that the options for monitoring Oracle with Operations Manager are now…
Wally Mead and I have teamed up for a two user group meetings in the Dallas and San Antonio markets (that’s in Texas for those who don’t live in the Lone Star state). Dallas’ user group is on October 14th from noon until 5:00 at the Microsoft office in Las Colinas at the MTC. Wally…
During a recent meeting I was demonstrating my all-in-one OpsMgr TP3 environment. I use this environment to showcase the functionality which has been put together for both Windows Server Technical Preview 3 (TP3) and Operations Manager TP3. A secondary goal for this environment was to kick the tires to see how I could leverage the…
At IT/Dev Connections 2015, Maarten Goet provided an excellent demo where he showcased how you can gather information in OMS for intrusion detection and send an email when the condition occurs in his session “Operations Management Suite for the System Center Operations Manager Administrator“. This was a very interesting set of functionality to see demonstrated…
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