Rob Davies' System Center + Azure Blog
Monitoring Application Gateway with Azure Log Analytics
Let’s create an awesome dashboard for monitoring Application Gateway in seconds! At the time of...
Date: 12/29/2017
Auto Assign SCSM Incidents with Azure Automation
Have you ever wanted Service Manager to auto assign Incidents to analysts? This blog talks through...
Date: 07/12/2016
Ingest Azure Diagnostic logging in Log Analytics (OMS) Part 1
It’s a great Friday! The sun is shining here in San Francisco, there’s a food truck festival in town...
Date: 06/24/2016
Simple look at OMS Alert Remediation with Runbooks: Part 3
Alerting in OMS was recently updated with the GA release. One of the great features this offers is...
Date: 04/20/2016
Simple look at OMS Alert Remediation with Runbooks: Part 2
Alerting in OMS was recently updated with the GA release. One of the great features this offers is...
Date: 04/20/2016
Simple look at OMS Alert Remediation with Runbooks: Part 1
Alerting in OMS was recently updated with the GA release. One of the great features this offers is...
Date: 04/20/2016
Service Manager portable module for SMA/Azure Automation
UPDATE: Since writing this, the PowerShell gallery is available at...
Date: 05/14/2015
Who is connected to Service Manager?
I've been asked a few times recently how to identify who is connected to a Service Manager...
Date: 10/28/2014
Working with Lists in Service Manager
In Service Manager, we can easily configure Lists from the console. This allows you to ensure all...
Date: 10/20/2014
Manageability Guys Blog links
I’ll be posting on this blog again. For completeness, below are links to my posts from the...
Date: 10/20/2014
Listing Review Activities which need your vote in Service Manager
In Service Manager, out of the box, we have a view of Review Activities which you need to vote on....
Date: 01/22/2013
Where did that Config Item come from?
If you’ve setup several connectors in Service Manager, you’ll have a CMDB full of lovely...
Date: 10/31/2012
Managing ‘Registered Servers’
Whenever you install a Service Manager Management Server, it’ll go ahead and register a...
Date: 08/29/2012
How to hide Incident action logs in the portal
I’ve been asked a few times recently – how do I stop users seeing the action logs in...
Date: 08/28/2012
Displaying Incidents by location - Option 1
I’ve been asked the following question a few times recently: “My company has several...
Date: 08/28/2012
Ignoring admin accounts in your CMDB
A lot of folks give their IT staff 2 AD accounts – a regular user account and an admin...
Date: 08/02/2012