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…
Are you using Office 365 and want to know how it is functioning? There are now a variety of options available to provide this information, some of which use Operations Manager as the framework and others which do not. This blog post will review the following options which are available to keep up to date…
On September 24th from 2-4 pm in Dallas I will be teaming up with Savision to present "Cloud Management with System Center 2012". The focus of this presentation will be on how you can use System Center to provide to monitor your environment even when it is a combination of on-prem and running in Azure.…
This may have been out there for a long time, but I just dug into it and it is pretty useful. If you are an author who is published on Amazon, you can create your own author page. The page lets you add a biography and picture and it lets you link your books…
I recently blogged ways to find management packs for Operations Manager but one topic I did not cover was where to find community management packs which was pointed out to me just recently. The System Center Central crew have provided a single page with all of the community management packs listed together (and searchable) which…
In Operations Manager, it is common to send alerts which a computer’s heartbeat has failed (Health Service Heartbeat Failure) to the server owner. It’s important to alert on heartbeat failures as they indicate an issue with agent’s ability to communicate with Operations Manager. This condition can occur due to a shutdown of the server…
I was working with a client recently who needed a quick report to provide free disk space information for all of their Unix/Linux systems. I ran across this link and was really impressed with the report that they had put together as it provided information for the Unix/Linux drives and a very readable format: http://www.scomgod.com/?p=42.…
At TechEd 2014 we received a lot of information on the newly available dashboards in OpsMgr 2012 R2 UR2. As part of my presentation Brian Wren authored an MP which when an alert was highlighted would look it up in Bing (among other things). For background, the ReSearch This management pack was designed to provide…
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