Update Rollup 3 for System Center 2012 Service Pack 1

Microsoft has just published a new cumulative update for SCOM and other System Center products.
You can find the details in this page :

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2836751

AlienVault OSSIM 4.3 has been published.

I'm not completly sure who are using and loving the AlienVault OSSIM community edition but I'm always a fan of this open source software.

Today a new major release V4.3 has been published.

It contains many great changes. First of all, the GUI has a new view. I'm using it since 2 days , I upgraded from an old release and I didnt received any error message during the installation. Completly silent and on-the-fly upgrade.

Link : Solaris 11 vs IBM AIX

Oracle has just published a comparison between Solaris 11 and IBM AIX. I think it's important to have a comparison like this. I beleive IBM will publish soon another one which will tell about it's stronger features.

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/server-storage/solaris11/overview/aix-mapping-guide-1566108.html

Release file expired, ignoring http://data.alienvault.com/mirror/squeeze_security/dists/squeeze/updates/Release (invalid since 242d 14h 31min 53s)

I just finished the installation of AlienVault v4.2.0 Community edition and I was trying to update the OS. When I sent the classic Debian update command " #apt-get update" , it sent me back this message :)

Release file expired, ignoring http://data.alienvault.com/mirror/squeeze_security/dists/squeeze/updates/Release (invalid since 242d 14h 31min 53s)

It's very easy to solve this. Just a misreading. All you have to do is using the Alienvault's update command instead of classic Ubuntu command.

#alienvault-update

SCOM 2012 SP1 console crashes continously

After installing SCOM 2012 test environment, I tried to install SCOM console to my Windows 7 x64 PC. At first run, the console started to crash and continously crashed till I find the root cause.

I installed the SCOM console MSI package from the DVD following this path : \\scomtest2\c$\Yedek\SCOM2012\Setup\AMD64\Console

But obviously it was a mistake :) I forgot to install Report viewer redistrutable package before the console MSI package and the system gave me this error.

Mounting an ISO file via vSphere client displays the error message : "Please specify a valid image file."

I never saw this. I was trying to mount an ISO file located at my Windows 7 PC to a virtual host via vSphere client. It's contuniously displaying the same error message.

"Please specify a valid image file.  ".

It's very funny and simple to solve it. I never experienced that.

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1004611

All you have to do is to change the .ISO extension to lovercases.

Link : SCOM unsealed MP backup

(This article was first published in Turkish at 17.01.2012)

http://scug.be/blogs/dieter/archive/2011/07/07/scom-2007-automated-backup-of-unsealed-management-packs.aspx

After creating a scheduling job, it worked perfectly for me.