I did an interesting interview with the guys at RunAsRadio (Richard Campbell, Greg Hughes) where we talked things I have a lot of interest in including Operations Manager 2007, 2012 and System Center in general. Thank you Richard and Greg for the invitation! The interview is available at: http://www.runasradio.com/ or directly at Cameron Fuller Monitors…
One of the most common questions I run across when integrating various dashboard solutions is how to integrate the dashboards into the OpsMgr web console. As an example, I may have created a distributed application for my line of business application. On my NOC view I show the health of the distributed application but when…
I’ve been spending significant amounts of time working with multiple dashboard solutions which are available for Operations Manager. Specifically Savision Live Maps, Visio 2010 integration, Service Level Dashboard 2.0, and the Service Manager dashboard (customized for OpsMgr). Through integration of these disparate dashboard solutions, we have been able to develop some extremely comprehensive solutions to…
Pete Zerger (MVP, and SystemCenterCentral site), Cameron Fuller (yours truly) and Alec King (Director of Product management at Veeam) are provide a free webinar discussing best practice approaches to monitoring VMware with SCOM – today at 12:00 central (1:00 ET). Give-a-ways include 10 free books which you can choose from these different options: VMware…
Catapult’s own Paul Johnson and Secure Vantage have teamed up to provide a free white paper on how to do security auditing with System Center. This is available on the Secure Vantage website at: http://www.securevantage.com/Resources/WhitePapers/SecurityAuditingwithMicrosoftSystemCenter.aspx. Check it out!
A colleague of mine (Terry Taylor) just launched into blogging with a really solid posting on how to automate the deployment of cross platform agents available at: http://ubergnosis.com/2011/07/11/automated-cross-platform-agent-install-and-discovery/ https://www.catapultsystems.com/ttaylor/archive/2011/07/11/automated-cross-platform-agent-install-and-discovery.aspx His blog links are: http://ubergnosis.com/ And replicated to his Catapult blog at: https://www.catapultsystems.com/ttaylor Great stuff Terry and keep up the blogging!
A little while back I was working with an organization where we put in a batch script which would be called to restart a service using a delay. Over time we found that it would work sometimes but it was not reliable. It appears that issues were occurring with permissions remotely calling batch files. My…
A colleague of mine just posted a blog article which details the step-by-step process for installation of System Center Orchestrator 2012 (SCORCH – I love the short name for this one). Check it out at: https://www.catapultsystems.com/vmontalbano/archive/2011/06/23/system-center-orchestrator-server-installation.aspx
Added two new SQL queries for the OpsMgr Dashboards and Gadgets and uploaded them today to: http://www.systemcentercentral.com/Downloads/DownloadsDetails/tabid/144/view/showmsg/indexid/86822/Default.aspx Processor Utilization History Website Current Connection History Details on ways that these queries can be used are blogged at http://www.systemcentercentral.com/BlogDetails/tabid/143/IndexID/86823/Default.aspx with also contains links to additional blog articles on the topic.
During a recent deployment we received a cryptic message when attempting to add the Exchange 2003 management pack. Details are below: “Exchange Server 2003 (Monitoring) could not be imported. If any management packs in the Import list are dependent on this management pack. the installation of the dependent management packs will fail. The requested management…
Catapult uses cookies to enhance your experience, to display customized content in accordance with your browser settings, and to help us better understand how you use our website. By continuing to browse or closing this banner, you indicate your agreement. To learn more about the cookies we use and to set your own preferences, see our Privacy and Cookie Policy.