Marius Sutara just released a tool that resets the state of a monitor that is closed. This is huge help for my environment. We have rolled out SCOM to many…
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Subscription Tool
Download: SubscriptionTool.zip Source Code: SubscriptionTool Source Code.zip Subscription Tool is a simple GUI based tool that lets you enable and disable all notification subscriptions. This tool is useful if you need…
Veeam Management Pack for VMware 4.0
Veeam just announced 4.0 of the “Management Pack for VMware”, also known as NWorks: Version 4.0 includes comprehensive end-to-end monitoring from ESX Cluster, to ESX Host, to Virtual Machine and…
Subscriptions getting automatically disabled
I recently ran across and issue where our notification subscriptions were getting disabled every 30 minutes. The strange thing was that only about half of our subscriptions were being disabled…
Operations Manager 2007 R2 Beta 1 has been released
Features Include Enhanced application performance and availability across heterogeneous platforms . Delivers monitoring across Windows, Linux and Unix servers-all through a single console. . Extends end to end monitoring of…
Schedule a URL into Maintenance Mode
I needed to schedule a URL into Maintenance Mode this week and couldn’t find any scripts or examples so I created my own. param($rootMS,$urlName,$minutes,$comment,$reason) Add-PSSnapin "Microsoft.EnterpriseManagement.OperationsManager.Client" -ErrorVariable errSnapin; Set-Location "OperationsManagerMonitoring::"…
SCOM Remote Maintenance Mode Scheduler 2.0
SCOM Remote Maintenance Mode Scheduler is a GUI based tool that lets administrators easily schedule maintenance mode for a server or group of servers inside System Center Operations Manager 2012…
VMware Workstation 6.5 for Windows Released
I just noticed this today that Vmware Workstation 6.5 was released on Tuesday this week. My Vista Media Center is running 24 x 7 recording HD and SD TV shows. …
My nightmare experience with the new Dell Management Pack 3.1 A01
The new management pack has a bunch of new rules and most importantly doesn’t cause the WMI errors like previous versions. Download: My Custom Dell MP without SNMP After importing…
Microsoft offers Hyper-V for free
Microsoft began a major virtualisation push late yesterday, with the introduction of new virtualisation tools and by making its core hypervisor product free of charge. The new Hyper-V Server 2008…