Nutanix has a management pack available for several monitoring solutions such as Solarwinds, Nagios and of course Operations Manager, which allows us to monitor hardware / DSF / hypervisor directly into Operations Manager. Now combining this with the service management capabilities that Operations Manager has is a killer combo. Now the setup is pretty simple …
Yesterday, Veeam released their new management pack which for the first time includes support for both Vmware and Hyper-V. Now I have gotten a lot of questions regarding (Why have Hyper-V monitoring if Microsoft has it ?) well Veeam’s pack has alot more features included, such as capacity planning, heat maps and so on. The …
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Now Microsoft recently released their new management pack for SQL Server, which included new dashboard views for SQL administrators. Now this is nice and it gives a clear overview of the current configuration and what’s happening at the time. Now it supports most the SQL versions, except 2014 (yet…) Version 32-bit SQL Server on 32-bit …
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This is something I’ve been meaning to write for some time, since I see new tools and extensions added to System Center every day. Many of these extensions are powerful and free which many use in their day to day job. So therefore I decided to write down a list of those tools I know …
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First of, this is a looong post This is a subject that actually I presented at the NIC conferance in Norway in january. How we can use Operations Manager to monitor other worksloads other then Microsoft / Windows. Since in most enterprises they have a lot of different platforms such as:Linux, Vmware, Citrix, Cisco, Microsoft …
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So next week it is going to explode with nerds in downtown Oslo. NIC (Nordic Infrastructure Conference) 2014 is thursday and friday, ill be attending there standing there as a part of MTUG (Microsoft Technology User Group) on Microsofts booth, so if you want to say hi please come by! And I am also have …
Microsoft just recently released a preview pack of a management pack that can be used to monitor Windows Server 2012 R2, good job Microsoft! You can download the preview pack here –> http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=39375 The management pack includes monitors for most of the Windows Server features. Including some awesome feature for Hyper-v 2012 R2, including for …
This guide has been written with Netscaler build 73 and Operations Manager 2012 SP1 (on WS2012) with the management pack from Citrix. Operations Manager 2012 supports monitoring network devices either through SNMP (v1, 2 and 3) or through just basic ICMP. Citrix has made a management pack solution, which you can use to enhance the …
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With SCOM 2007 you have the ability to monitor a service within your infrastructure with Distributed Applications.Distributed Applications are basically made up of different components that make your service.For instance let’s think of a web shop. Which are typically made up of 1x Webserver1x Database server1x File Serverand/or a authentication service like ADAll these components …
