One of the benefits of being a consultant is the ability to work with a large number of different client sites and with a variety of Operations Manager administrators. I have used Operations Manager heavily for years but often I find a trick that another OM admin uses that I hadn’t seen before. Last week…
As a consultant, my laptop is oftentimes our primary method to provide demonstrations for Microsoft technologies. With the release of Windows 8, the ability to run HyperV has been a great addition to the Operating System. I have had conversations with developers, and infrastructure personnel and there is a common question on how to best…
I initially blogged on this topic (using Azure benefits from your MSDN subscription) on 10/1/2012. At that point in time the Azure benefits from MSDN has been significantly lighter than they are as of today. This equated to approximately a single small computer system for half of month, which needs to be destroyed to not…
During a recent conversation on Configuration Manager 2012 SP1 with Unix/Linux agents it was discussed that Unix/Linux agents cannot currently be added to Service Manager as Configuration Items (CI’s). That’s ok, we can use Operations Manager’s connector to create CI’s for Unix/Linux agents from Operations Manager. Here’s the steps required: (1) Find out what…
I got an email this evening that a friend of mine had already received his book and was reading it on his Nook! This book is a whopping 1536 pages long and is contains in-depth information on Operations Manager 2012 beyond anything else available in the market on this topic. So, even before you can…
According to our publisher System Center Operations Manager 2012 has released today! Check it out at: http://www.informit.com/store/system-center-2012-operations-manager-unleashed-9780672335914 or see Kerrie’s article at http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/82521. For those who have been waiting as long as I have I expect that we will see deliveries start from Amazon and other sources very soon! Please note that this includes SP1…
I do a lot of my demonstrations for System Center using a lab environment that I run out of my home. In most ways this works well, but one of the negatives of this approach is the amount of bandwidth available going up from my home to the Internet (on my provider I get about…
During a recent Operations Manager Unix/Linux agent deployment we were experiencing failures when deploying the agent because sudo could not be found. The details are shown below: Failed during SSH discovery. Exit code: 127 Standard Output: Sudo path: /user/bin/ Standard Error: ksh[11]:/usr/bin/sudo: not found. Resolution: On the systems experiencing the issue add a…
When you install Global Service Monitor (GSM) you choose a resource pool which GSM will use. As part of the installation process you need to install Windows Identity Foundation 3.5 (WIF). In Windows 2012 WIF is added as a feature (Windows Identity Foundation 3.5). It is important to know however that WIF needs to be…
Catapult’s System Center team is top notch, and our Business Intelligence teams are no slackers as well. When you combine our BI methodology (A3) with System Center you get something pretty great. Check it out our new video on this topic at: http://tinyurl.com/A3andSC
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