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SCOM: Creation of a group in order to subscribe to alerts

I am currently managing at one of my customer a monitoring project that concerns SQL Server instances and SCOM (System Center Operation Manager). The project includes many instances, more or less 50, divided in two environment (Production and Test) and different versions of SQL Server as 2008, 2012 and 2014. The defined target was to create two groups of instances,… 

SQL Server Collation for System Center Products

A customer asks me, what is the collation for System Center products? Do we have a general collation for all products? And what is the BP for Tempdb? And how work the licencing for SQL Server in System Center (is SQL Server included)??? I answer just “OK, OK, I understand, I wil check those points…” I  search those information on… 

SCOM: don’t forget to set the license key!

During some client testing operations I installed some months ago a version of System Center Operation Manager 2012 on a Virtual Machine. Today I try to open this version of SCOM to perform some new tests and I had the surprise to receive a beautiful error message: In fact, I never thought to verify that my version was licensed or…