Community Round-Up: September

Catch up on all the SCOM, Azure Monitor and SquaredUp news

With Autumn creeping up on all of us in the Northern Hemisphere and holiday season slowly trailing to an end, our SquaredUp Community has been hard at work! Some September highlights include Ruben Zimmerman’s Basic Webservice Watcher MP and Brian Wren's handy tutorial on Filling SCOM Gaps with Azure Monitor. 

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Community Answers - SCOM - Azure Monitor - @SquaredUp

Community Answers

Tips, tricks and discussion topics of the month

Permission to author or modify sensitive queries

How to delegate permissions for constructing queries for non-SCOM admins in Team folders.

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Email alerts for EA Servers

Know how to set up alerts that go to EA application owners when the EA goes red? Share your expertise.

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Easy Tune without internet access

How to use Cookdown’s Easy Tune MP when the Systems that run it don’t have internet access.

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New free MP in the Community Catalog!

Use Ruben Zimmerman’s Basic Webservice Watcher MP to monitor Apache, Tomcat and other common web services with SCOM.

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Displaying system specs

How to display system specs in a dashboard.

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Congratulations, September's top contributor…

Ruben Zimmerman

We would like to say a big thank you to Ruben Zimmerman, for sharing a new Basic Webservice Watcher MP with our Community. As a token of our appreciation, you get to take home some awesome Star Wars LEGO!

Every month, our editorial team give a box of LEGO to our most fabulous contributor. We will also be giving away tickets to IGNITE 2019 for the top contributor of the year – our Community Champion! Get involved for a chance to win, win, win!

SCOM

The latest on all things Systems Center Operation Manager

SCOM Effective Monitoring Configuration – Decoded

Gowdhaman Karthikeyan (GK) sheds light on the logic behind effective monitoring configuration of a server, object or alert.

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SCOM Self Maintenance MP for SCOM 2019 now available

Tao Yang announces that the OpsMgr Self Maintenance MP v3.1 is now available from cookdown.com.

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How to discover and monitor a service with a wildcard for the service name

Another handy guide by Kevin Holman.

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TechNet script automates TLS 1.2 support in SCOM 2012R2, SCOM 2016 and SCOM 2019

It ensures that the environment and SQL are supported for TLS 1.2, SCOM Roles are patched with the correct UR level, and software prereqs are installed.

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New SQL Database Managed Instance MP from Azure

This MP enables you to monitor availability and performance of your Managed Instances.

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System Center 1807 – 4 months left of support!

Leon Laude urges anyone using Semi-Annual Channel releases to upgrade or migrate ASAP, as support for the last remaining version ends in January 2020.

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Azure Monitor

Keep updated on Azure Monitor and related technologies

Azure Monitor Alert with Azure Functions

Want to trigger Azure Functions using an Azure Monitor alert? Billy York explains it all.

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Azure Sentinel or Azure Security Center Log Analytics workspace

Tiander Turpijn’s top 8 best practices for designing an Azure Sentinel or Azure Security Center Log Analytics workspace.

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Connecting Windows Server to Azure Monitor

Thomas Maurer on setting up monitoring and alerts for Windows Server to Azure Monitor with Windows Admin Center.

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Azure Monitor Alert Series – Part 3

This part in Stanislav Zhelyakov’s 6-part series explains Security Activity Log and Service Health Alerts.

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Azure Monitor Alert Series – Part 4

Stanislav Zhelyakov’s take on Advisor and Policy alerts.

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Azure Monitor Alert Series – Part 5

Azure Activity log: Autoscale alerts and Resource Health alerts broken down by Stanislav Zhelyakov.

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Azure Monitor Alert Series – Part 6

Metric Alerts: Static Metric Alerts, Dynamic Metric Alerts and Availability Test alerts explained by Stanislav Zhelyakov.

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@SquaredUp

Fill SCOM gaps with Azure Monitor

Let our guest blogger (and SCOM wizard) Brian Wren teach you how to bring Azure Monitor and SCOM together.

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Visualising SCOM PowerShell tasks with SquaredUp

Learn how to use Cookdown’s PowerShell MP to create SCOM tasks written in PowerShell and how to visualise the output of your tasks more efficiently.

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Coffee break: hybrid monitoring with Microsoft’s Azure MP

How can we deliver a complete monitoring strategy for our hybrid environments via SCOM?

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Rosie Hodgson Community Lead

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