Creating a key to seal management packs
There is a great article on sealed and unsealed management packs here so I’m not going to repeat the same information. Instead, I’ll assume you know the reasons why you…
Incident Management Process
The article is about Cyber incidents but the processes and logic that it describes are every bit as applicable to SCOM as there are in the Cyber world. “Incidents can…
The Art of Modern Ops Podcast: DevOps Metrics – Success Follows Failure
An interesting listen which has a lot of content that is applicable in the SCOM monitoring world. Some key takeaways that are applicable to scom monitoring in general: Try to…
Configure an Enterprise CA
This is the first part of a series of articles on deploying and managing a Linux agent where the certificates are managed by an Enterprise CA PKI infrastructure. This is…
Create a Windows Service in C#
A quick side post on how to create a windows service in C# using Visual Studio. This can be useful if you want a dummy service to test your service…
SCOM – Linux Monitoring – OMI Vulnerability
This was release by Microsoft yesterday (August 9th, 2022): https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/en-US/vulnerability/CVE-2022-33640 How does this impact SCOM customers? SCOM 2016, 2019, and 2022 customers who monitor Linux machines and use Kerberos-based authentication…
SCOM 2019 UR4 may break console connectivity
This came up on the SCOM forums a number of users reported being unable to open the SCOM console and connect to a Management Server after applying SCOM 2019 update…
How to uncheck the “Don’t prompt when running this task in the future” check box
As you can see from the screenshot below; when you run a task you get an option to “Don’t prompt when running this task in the future”. Checking this box…