In this blog post I will explain how to use an System Center Operations Manager OleDB watcher to monitor an Oracle database.
This can be useful to monitor a mission critical application on database availability. It’s also a cheap solution to just monitor the connection state of an Oracle database, rather then installing an (expensive) third [...]
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Monitor an Oracle database with a SCOM OleDB watcher
September 4th, 2010
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Mass creation of HP WSEM WiFi guest accounts using SSH and PowerShell
July 7th, 2010
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I was asked to create 365 (1 year) of WiFi (daily) guest access accounts, and export them to CSV.
Of course I didn’t want to create them by hand.. this is where PowerShell came in. I used the following PowerShell script to create random WiFi guest accounts:
The case of the black Windows startup screen
June 21st, 2010
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Today I had a nice issue. One of the servers at work suddenly had a “black” Windows startup screen.
It looked like this:
Setting up a SCSM (System Center Service Manager) lab environment, based on the RTM version.
April 22nd, 2010
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Microsoft has released a RTM version SCSM (System Center Service Manager) on MMS (Microsoft Management Summit). A product i’ve been waiting for, for quite a while.
I just finished setting up a lab environment, and I’m sharing my experience in this blog post. If you want to know more about service manager, check out this site: [...]
How to trace SCCM’s management pack alerts to concrete SCCM errors
March 17th, 2010
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Sometimes it’s a bit tricky to relate events generated by the SCCM management pack for SCOM to real SCCM errors.
This article helps you to trace down the real SCCM error by using a real world example..
Extending Windows 2003 os disk using diskpart and VMware
March 10th, 2010
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I use this trick quite often for Windows 2003 machines (this is not needed on Windows 2008 machines, you can use diskpart directly here!)
After time the OS disk grows out it’s free space, usually this happens due to Windows updates or logfiles.
So, here’s how to extend an OS disk of a Windows 2003 machine using [...]
Trend Micro IMSS management pack for SCOM
February 27th, 2010
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I just released my first management pack for System Center Operations Manager (SCOM).
It’s a management pack for Trend Micro’s IMSS.
You can download the management pack here:
http://www.maartendamen.com/?page_id=190
Change pagefile settings on multiple servers using Powershell
February 19th, 2010
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Today I wanted to change the page file settings on some of our servers (about 80), doing that by hand would take ages.
That’s why I came up with the following Powershell script, the script does the following:
Loop through a list of Windows 2003 servers in our active directory, only Windows 2003 machines were needed. You [...]
SCOM alert notification subscription delay sending for x minutes and don’t sent if alert is auto-resolved within that time
December 17th, 2009
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In my company we are using SCOM for monitoring our server environment.
Off hours we also get notified about critical alerts using a SMS/GSM modem.
Using default SCOM functionality we delay the sending of notifications by 5 minutes. This works fine for alerts with a “new” state.
However if an alert is closed within the 5 minute period [...]
