I have a new favourite toy at work. It hasn’t quite overtaken ConfigMgr as my absolute favourite but it’s close. I’m having fun with it though, and that’s the main thing. Apart from, you know, its entire business function, but that’s minor, right? My new toy is called PRTG which is written by a company called …
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Category:General Server Stuff
SCOM – SQL Management Pack Configuration
SCOM is a bastard of a product, isn’t it? It’s even more so when you’re trying to monitor a SQL instance or two. It’s also quite amusing that Chrome doesn’t recognise SCOM as a word in its dictionary and that it suggests SCAM as a possible word 🙂 My major project at work for the past …
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Mac Servers – What I’m Doing
Hopefully this should be the last post about Macs for the time being! I don’t know why I’ve written so many recently, I guess it’s just because the bloody things take up so much of my time at work. Don’t get me wrong, I like Macs a lot for my own purposes. I own two, …
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Mac Servers in a Post X-Serve World
About three years ago, Apple discontinued the Xserve line of servers. This presented a problem. While the Xserve never was top tier hardware, it was at least designed to go into a server room; you could rack mount it, it had proper ILO and it had redundant power supplies. You would never run an Apache …
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Automating SC-VMM Patching
Patching. What a pain in the backside it is. It’s bad enough when you just have to look after one or two machines at home. When you have thousands of the things to look after, it can be horrific. A recent brace of high level, out of band Microsoft security updates has forced me to take a …
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