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...

Author: Rob Davies msft 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...

Author: Rob Davies msft 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...

Author: Rob Davies msft 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...

Author: Rob Davies msft 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...

Author: Rob Davies msft 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...

Author: Rob Davies msft Date: 04/20/2016

Service Manager portable module for SMA/Azure Automation

UPDATE: Since writing this, the PowerShell gallery is available at...

Author: Rob Davies msft 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...

Author: Rob Davies msft 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...

Author: Rob Davies msft Date: 10/20/2014

I’ll be posting on this blog again. For completeness, below are links to my posts from the...

Author: Rob Davies msft 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....

Author: Rob Davies msft 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...

Author: Rob Davies msft Date: 10/31/2012

Managing ‘Registered Servers’

Whenever you install a Service Manager Management Server, it’ll go ahead and register a...

Author: Rob Davies msft 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...

Author: Rob Davies msft 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...

Author: Rob Davies msft 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...

Author: Rob Davies msft Date: 08/02/2012