Disable Discovery of Virtual Machine Resource Groups in Cluster MP

Both Cluster Management Pack and Virtual Machine Management Pack provide monitoring for Virtual Machine but from different perspective. In some situations the Cluster MP can be very noise as it is monitoring Resource Groups and Resources which could be down just because some virtual machines are shut down. Continue reading “Disable Discovery of Virtual Machine Resource Groups in Cluster MP” →

Microsoft Azure Operational Insights Preview Series – The Azure Portal Experience (Part 10)

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Cameron tipped me that I should write a blog post about the Azure Portal Experience for Operational Insights. Continue reading “Microsoft Azure Operational Insights Preview Series – The Azure Portal Experience (Part 10)” →

SCCM 2012 R2 Client Agent Uninstalling and Installing Itself Every 5 Hours

I’ve been using Tao’s ConfigMgr 2012 (R2) Client MP since he released it and recently we’ve noticed that a lot of alerts were logged for SMS Agent service not running and after half an hour or less being resolved automatically. Looking in SCOM for the closed looked like this: Continue reading “SCCM 2012 R2 Client Agent Uninstalling and Installing Itself Every 5 Hours” →

Error on Starting SMA Runbook from Third Party System

We’ve trying to use the SMA Web Service to start SMA runbooks from another system. There is good sample of code for this and we’ve managed to get it working. Unfortunately when we’ve started to start more runbooks some of them were failing with the following error: Continue reading “Error on Starting SMA Runbook from Third Party System” →

Microsoft Azure Operational Insights Preview Series – Alert Management (Part 9)

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For more than a couple of weeks there is a new Intelligence Pack in Azure Operational Insights – Alert Management. I would have blogged earlier but initially the IP was not working for my account but the Azure Operational Insights team managed to fix it for less than a week. Of course once I had my Alert Management working I was occupied with other tasks. In short better late than never. Continue reading “Microsoft Azure Operational Insights Preview Series – Alert Management (Part 9)” →