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How to Audit and Alert Server Restarts with SCOM 2019 (2012/16)

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How to Audit and Alert Server Restarts with SCOM 2019 (2012/16)

Often IT admins suffer from small to big outages due to unscheduled patches, failures, power, or someone mistakenly restarting a server in the middle of the workday without notifying anyone. I've created this "How to Guide" to help you set up this in your SCOM environment.

On your SCOM Console, navigate to authoring and create a new Rule

Fill in the Rule Name and Description, select Rule Category (Alert), rule Target (Windows Computer) and make sure Rule is enabled is checked.

Event Log Type System

Build Event Expression insert Event ID and Source

Insert values where Event ID = 1074 and Event Source = User32.

Set Alert Priority and Severity to fit your needs then Finish and Close

Overview of your recently configured rule on the Squared Up HTML5 Console

That's it, you will now start tracking those restarts.

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Integrating VMware vCenter ESX Hosts and Clusters with Virtual Machine Manager VMM

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Integrating VMware vCenter, ESX Hosts and Clusters with Virtual Machine Manager VMM

Virtual Machine Manager helps IT administrators to combine multiple products such as Hyper-V, VMware or Citrix in one administrative console. Having this type of integrations really helps your security, monitoring, and management.

Step by Step

Go to your Virtual Machine Manager Console, Fabric workspace then Infrastructure.

On the Infrastructure folder expand and then right-click on the vCenter Server to add a resource. You could also click on Add resources and then VMware vCenter Server

Specify vCenter Server you would like to add

Import the certificate the monitor add job

Job progress

Completed

Under Fabric verify the vCenter Server is responding

Add VMware ESX Hosts and Clusters

Browse the Root or Admin account to your ESX server then Next.

Select VMware resources and Next.

Review your configuration and Finish to add your ESX Servers to VMM.

SCOM 2019 UR1 - Simplified Patching Finally Arrived!

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SCOM 2019 UR1 - Simplified Patching Finally Arrived!

Microsoft has released Update Roll Up 1 for SCOM 2019 and it comes with some great fixes and additions that will ease the upgrade process in your current environment.

Simplified management server patching

UR1 introduces a frictionless way of patching the SCOM servers. This new funtionaity will enable you to update your MGMT servers, update configs for Operational and DW DBs and MPs easly with just one step versus in the past that you pretty much needed to update each component separately.

To see more details on What's New click here.

Improvements and fixes

Web Console fixes and changes

The State widget now supports sorting by health and age.
Alert widgets can now be searched on by Date Time and sorted based upon age and severity.
The alert link in an email notification returned the following error message when it's browsed: “Your session with the Web Console server expired." This occured even though the user was not logged in to web console. You will now see the login page post this fix.
The Alert summary view window in SCOM Web console can now be expanded as required.
When the Alert state was changed to some custom state, these alerts were not displayed in the web console. Alerts that have custom resolution states are now displayed.
Some additional scrollbars appear if a customer widget is created in the web console or if the browser window size is reduced.
Improvement: SCOM views load and save much faster than previously.

For more fixes and improvements click here.

Repost: Microsoft Docs and Support.

One-Click Patching coming for SCOM 2019 Update Rollup 1 (UR1)

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One-Click Patching coming for SCOM 2019 Update Rollup 1 (UR1)

I'm so glad this is finally happening as it is quite a challenge to perform the upgrades on all servers + the DB scripts. There are also lots of great improvements for the Storage Spaces Direct monitoring, Azure MP, gMSA support.

Based on the MS Ignite presentation the first UR should be coming up on Q1. WIll be posting more updates once the official announcement is published.

References:

https://myignite.techcommunity.microsoft.com/sessions/82951?source=SessionDeck

How to connect Operations Manager 2019 (SCOM) to Azure Log Analytics (AKA OMS) in 4 simple steps

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How to connect Operations Manager 2019 (SCOM) to Azure Log Analytics (AKA OMS) in 4 simple steps

Monitoring is a Key element in your IT infrastructure. System Center a d Azure Cloud offers some phenomenal advantages when properly integrated. Connecting you on-premises SCOM environment to your Azure Log Analytics enhances monitoring while utilizing advanced analytics and machine learning which help identify issues and automatically respond to alerts. Hybrids environments certainly help that next level of productivity and even more when two exceptional platforms are integrated. SCOM +Azure Log Analytics helps to improve your operational workflows on your infrastructure.

Architecture Overview

Requirements:
1. Have your SCOM environment to be allowed to connect to 443 port over the internet.
2. An Active Azure subscription (This could be a trial one)
3. Admin Credentials to your Azure environment.
More details at Microsoft Docs