About Martin Ehrnst and the blog

Is there a need for another Azure, System Center, and PowerShell blog? Probably not. But I use the internet to find information and get help every day and I want to contribute back by sharing my knowledge.
This blog is primarily focused on Microsoft Azure and Datacenter management space, but you will also find a lot of automation, DevOps, and integration-related articles.

The name Adatum comes from the Microsoft training material and used as an example company together with Contoso.

Hopefully, you will find something useful.

Martin Ehrnst

I’m Martin Ehrnst an IT pro from Norway, currently working as a technical lead at Vipps.

For more than a decade I have worked with infrastructure management, automation, and monitoring. I now try to bring what I have learned from on-premises management into the public cloud.
In my spare time, I try to contribute as much as I can to the Microsoft community. Apart from this blog, I share my daily ups and downs on social media. And as often as I allowed and there is time, I speak at local events and international conferences.

For any inquiries please contact me through LinkedIn or my Twitter account.

14 COMMENTS

Hans Geussens
26/07/2018 at 09:57
Hello Martin,

we are looking for an Azure CSP monitoring solution and I saw your blogpost about this topic.
I think you are really close to finally find a solution on something everyone is looking for!

Can I ask you how far you are on the management pack? Is there a way our team can help with this?

Martin Ehrnst
27/07/2018 at 09:24
Hi Hans. I haven’t worked with the MP in a while so atm. It only check the health state from service health in Azure. Now that Azure monitor is starting to come together (they had multiple apis and previews) I’ll leverage that as well.
I’m thinking about open sourcing the code so I will ask my employer about that this fall.

Martin
Martin Ehrnst
27/07/2018 at 09:27
Thanks Hans.
I haven’t done anything with it in a while. Been waiting for a few azure monitor features to GA.
I have thought about open sourcing the code, but I will have to ask my employer. Why don’t you email me.

Best
Martin

Asher Margolis
22/02/2018 at 14:40
Hello again Martin,

Yes, I have created the management pack with tun as profile and associated with that profile
and distributed it management servers, but now it’s says
— Once the discoveries are done, the web checks will show up in SCOM.
The management pack contains 2 monitors and 1 rule. — the question is are does rules and monitor supposed to show now automatically?
if yes, how can I find them ?
what name should they have ?

Thanks again in advance!!

Martin Ehrnst
22/02/2018 at 15:14
Hi Asher. I was referencing to that mp as a reference for a technique you can use with pingdom. Reading between the lines, you are trying to use uptimerobot for pingdom?

Let me know
Martin

Asher Margolis
25/02/2018 at 10:52
Hi Martin,

No, I’m trying to follow the post you sent me and instead of using UptimeRoboot replace it with
Pingdom, so that alerts from Pingdom will be forward to SCOM.

I just copy past the next instruction in the post.. but my question is after I did all the steps above
should the monitors and rule be created automatically ? or I need to create them?

Thanks in advance!

Martin Ehrnst
26/02/2018 at 11:18
The monitors are created within the management pack. You can see them in the authoring space targeted pingdom (or whatever you called the class). If you upload the source code of your project I can take a quick look.

Asher Margolis
11/03/2018 at 16:32

Hi Martin,

I did found the Management Pack I created for Pingdom alerts, but I still don’t see any rules or monitors with pingdoms name.. perhaps there is some step I’m missing ?

Thanks In advance!!!

Asher
Martin Ehrnst
11/03/2018 at 22:38

Asher. Please upload your management pack and send me the link.

Asher Margolis
21/01/2018 at 16:50
Thanks a lot for your replay, appreciate!
Asher Margolis
21/01/2018 at 15:18
Hello Martin,

I have a question regarding your post on Web API for System Center Operations Manager –
http://adatum.no/operationsmanager/web-api-for-scom

We have SCOM application and Pingdom, my question is, is the system you built, could help us forward alerts from Pingdom to SCOM? and if yes, where should we configure the Pingdom credentials ?

Thanks in advance!

Martin Ehrnst
21/01/2018 at 15:26
Hi Asher. The no functions built in to the api that allows you to insert data. SCOM doesn’t actually work that way. I can suggest that you create a management pack using pingdoms api. I have done that for several systems. Here’s one example using uptimerobot, basically the same as pingdom. https://noalertleftbehind.blog/2017/06/30/integrate-external-website-monitoring-with-scom-uptimerobot/

Asher Margolis
07/02/2018 at 13:35
Hi Martin,

I tried to work according to the post you sent me and I have add the PIngdom APIKey to my SCOM server registry and created the Run As Account but now I’m stuck at the point that I’m asked to add distribution as I’m not sure what to add, if you could please advise on that..

Thanks a lot in advance!!

Asher

Martin Ehrnst
07/02/2018 at 13:38
You have created a management pack with a run as profile? Then you need to add the account and associate with that profile, and distribute to your management servers/pool

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