Operations Management Suite – Performance Monitoring

OMS today released a new feature Performance monitoring. Not sure if that is the official name but basically allows you to gather performance data from servers by adding performance counters.

The feature is located under Logs as it represents different king of log gathering. Keep in mind that this performance data gathering feature is different than the Capacity solution. This feature does not require SCOM-VMM integration and works with agent-only connected computers. Continue reading “Operations Management Suite – Performance Monitoring”

Operations Management Suite – Custom Fields / Extract Data Feature

I’ve been waiting for this OMS feature with anticipation. At first sight you might think that this is a feature that is nothing worth to be excited but quite contrary. This feature allows you to extract additional insights from your logs. Why? Continue reading “Operations Management Suite – Custom Fields / Extract Data Feature”

Spend Your Money Wisely

With this post I would like to support my friend and fellow MVP Tao Yang. The text below is written by him but I fully support it. Read carefully.

clip_image001As what I’d like to consider myself as – a seasoned System Center specialist, I have benefitted from many awesome resources from the community during my career in System Center. These resources consist of blogs, whitepapers, training videos, management packs and various tools and utilities. Although some of them are not free (and in my opinion, they are not free for a good reason), but large percentage of these resources I value the most are all free of charge. Continue reading “Spend Your Money Wisely”

Error (2912) When You Try to Update VMM Agent on Hosts

Recently I’ve stumbled on the following error when trying to update VMM agent on hosts:

Error (2912)
An internal error has occurred trying to contact the hv01.contoso.com server: NO_PARAM: NO_PARAM.

Continue reading “Error (2912) When You Try to Update VMM Agent on Hosts”

Operations Management Suite – Goodbye Silverlight and Other Stuff

It’s been a while since I haven’t touched my love OMS Smile but I am back from vacation so I needed to reconnect. So here are few changes that you might have noticed already: Continue reading “Operations Management Suite – Goodbye Silverlight and Other Stuff”