July 15 2010 6:25 AM

SCC Health Check Reports Management Pack V2 !

This is the version 2 of the SCC Health Check Reports Management Pack released previous month. OpsMgr Database Hygiene: SCC Health Check Reports Management Pack by Oskar Landman Pete Zerger This version is a follow up based on feedback on the first versi

June 22 2010 4:48 PM

OpsMgr Database Hygiene : SCC Health Check Reports Management Pack by Oskar Landman & Pete Zerger

Database Hygiene is greatly covered by Pete Zerger in his 6 part series on database hygiene. Why you should care and how it effects the functionality and performance of your (or your customers) SCOM environment. Most of the times it comes down to running

May 10 2010 7:33 AM

SNMP Setup and Simple Custom SNMP Discovery

Due to a question on the forum and many people are still struggling with setting up SNMP here a quick guide on the following SNMP issue’s: Basics How to Setup SNMP on both SCOM and the Network device or Windows Server. Authoring Console: How to create a

March 13 2010 9:19 AM

Creating a Custom Report for SCOM 2007 R2 with SQL 2008 reporting in Microsoft Visual Studio 2008

Most of the times we can rely on the more general reporting features delivered with SCOM 2007 R2 for reporting purposes. But when you want to design a really nice looking report which is much easier to generate and target you need to dive into report des

March 03 2010 4:12 PM

Review: NetApp Management Pack Appliance Watch 2.0 for System Center Operations Manager 2007 / System Center Virtual Machine Manager

There is a new management pack for monitoring NetApp devices for System Center Operations manager 2007 R2. This management pack can be used to integrate both SCVMM, SCOM and NetApp! The Management Pack is a big improvement compared to the old version 1.4

February 24 2010 5:12 PM

Active Directory Management Pack and extremely high response times

Last week I solved a puzzle which was bugging me quite some time. The problem was the fact that the Active Directory Management pack was hard or impossible to control. And as with most annoying problems the solution was easy, well most solutions are easy

January 27 2010 2:52 PM

SNMP Management Pack Example: NetApp Management Pack for SCOM 2007 R2 part 4

In the previous series I showed how to create the the discoveries for the different instances that make up a NetApp Filer. This part will cover the parts which are still missing if we look at the properties of the classes. We are going to “discover” thes

January 09 2010 4:05 PM

SNMP Management Pack Example: NetApp Management Pack for SCOM 2007 R2 part 3

In the previous series I showed how to create the datasource and 2 discoveries. This part will cover the more complex discoveries. Previous series: SNMP Management Pack Example: NetApp Management Pack for SCOM 2007 R2 part 1 SNMP Management Pack Example:

December 31 2009 8:39 AM

SNMP Management Pack Example: NetApp Management Pack for SCOM 2007 R2 part 2

In the first part of the NetApp Management Pack basically was all about the design. The result was defining the classes and relationships. With this information you should be able to create the classes and relationships we are going to use in this MP. Th

December 16 2009 4:42 PM

SNMP Management Pack example: NetApp Management Pack for System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 – Part 1

Writing a Custom SNMP Netapp management pack for System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2. The Reason I have written this management pack to get the monitoring of your NetApp environment into System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2. I know there are oth