The Internet Fishing Trawler: Monitoring Edition

At VMworld 2013 vCOps 5.8 was announced. There seem to be some pretty cool features in there. Eric Shanks at The IT Hollow has a great break down on the new features.

By default you can’t really get data out of vCOps but there is a community PowerShell module to allow you to get the stats out. Brian Wuchner over at EnterpriseAdmins.org shows how to use it.

Moving into the world of SCOM, 2012 R2 the venerable SCOM Agent is being renamed Microsoft Monitoring Agent. There are a couple of new features in the new agent but nothing earth shattering, to me. Marnix Wolf has the breakdown and a great side by side comparison chart.

If you are doing an upgrade to 2012 R2 there are a few things you need to be aware of and Marnix again has all the answers. What surprised me is the compatibility between the different agent versions.

The Cisco Security blog has a post on a topic everyone loves, logs! The title is “Making Boring Logs Interesting”, I’m sure they mean interesting as in useful and not to make it an interesting read. Maybe…