As a quick summary for what has been added recently related to ReSearch This (community resolutions to Operations Manager alerts), there were several new KB articles added and the ReSearch This dashboard edition was also released recently. Details are below. New ReSearch This KB articles: SQL DB Engine 2012 Page Life Expectancy is too…
In the upcoming whitepaper entitled "Using Veeam solutions to augment System Center and Hyper-V" Pete Zerger and I discuss how the Veeam management pack can be used to enhance the functionality available in System Center. Specifically we focused on how the new Hyper-V functionality could be leveraged for additional benefits in System Center. While integration…
One of the approaches which has been available to provide dashboard integration for Operations Manager utilizes Visio and SharePoint Enterprise edition. I have worked with this approach and blogged on it several times in the past including: Creating a Visio integrated diagram from a distributed application: https://www.catapultsystems.com/cfuller/archive/2011/08/16/opsmgr-dashboard-integration-creating-a-visio-integrated-diagram-from-a-distributed-application.aspx Customizing linked items and how they represent their…
Thank you to all of the attendees at the recent Cloud Management with System Center presentation in Dallas! As a follow-up from this presentation, the following are some relevant links to the topics that we discussed: Savision has made a copy of the slides available here for your review. For more details on Office 365…
During a recent presentation on Cloud Management with System Center several good questions were asked but one really caught my attention. The client wanted to know why they couldn’t see performance information for their VM’s which are running in Azure. This blog post will dig into the underlying area of confusion as to what is…
Life is good, the presentation is going well. The audience is engaged in the discussion. I mention an interesting technical point and continue on. I’m part way into the next slide and twitter pops up with a tweet about the interesting technical point that I had just discussed. Wait a second. I know that I…
Are you looking for a great free way to demonstrate how Operations Manager can monitor network devices? If so, check this blog post out! With the great news that a free version of the Xian SNMP Device Simulator was going to be available for download on October 15th in celebration of their 10 year anniversary…
The term autoscaling can have several meanings including scaling out (adding additional instance), scaling up (adding more resources to an existing instance) and scaling down (removing resources from an existing instance). In Azure this is explained at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh680945(v=PandP.50).aspx. In this three part blog post series, my goal is to explain what the current state for…
If you aren’t familiar with sed and grep you may want to stop reading here. If you are and this is bringing Unix flashbacks, you should read on. I started my career on Unix systems and quickly found that grep and sed were just part of getting the job done and I ended up…
There is an increasing number of hybrid environments where some of the systems are on-prem and others are running in Azure. For these types of environments, we need to use Operations Manager agents installed on the virtuals in IaaS and have them report to our on-prem Operations Manager environment (for information on how to monitor…
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