When running a virtualized host with VMware tools installed; time information (by default) is syncronized against the ESXI host. Although it is far to easy to take this feature for granted and not actually understand how this process actually works. Initially assuming that the ESXI host setup an NTP server and the Windows host was consuming from this on the ESXI host was my initial thought, although it turns out the process is much simpler than this, by invoking the VMwareToolboxCmd.exe utility using the 'timesync' switch you can perform time...
Monday, 27 October 2014
Thursday, 23 October 2014
Implementing SCOM with Linux Hosts
System Center 2012 Operations Manager provides a management pack for a selection of Linux distributions (including the likes of Debian, Ubunutu and some other well-used distros.) They are available as part of the Universal Linux management pack which is available with System Center 2012 SP1 onwar...