Background story Back when I ran SCOM, in addition of Windows machine monitoring and Event Log aggregation, it was performing a duty of ping testing all the servers in my environment. This was a very useful feature as it allowed me to quickly identify servers that were down or unreachable. The main quirk was that it was only aware of the servers that I manually added and not able to discover things automatically as I didn’t have the right setup to leverage the SNMP based discovery.
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