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SCOM 2016 – What’s New UNIX/Linux Series: File System Discovery e.g. Exclude /tmp

A little pain in SCOM 2012 R2 was, that as soon you installed the UNIX/Linux management packs for your distribution all UNIX/Linux folders were discovered on the file system. This could be lead to a huge list of monitored directories e.g. /tmp, /var… which was not intended to be. To overcome this problem, you would […]

Simple script which checks the modified time (hours) of a log file

Recently I had to monitor a backup log file. If the modification time stamp of the log file was later than at a certain time then SCOM should fire a warning. In my case if the file was modified later than at 05:00 o’clock (24-hour time notation) an alert should occur. There was no characteristic […]

SCOM 2012 – Import Multiple Management Packs (Import-SCOMManagementPack)

There are maybe certain situation where you need to import multiple management packs using the “Import-SCOMManagementPack” command. How do you accomplish that? It is easy! Because the command is taking care of the dependencies we just have to provide ALL of the needed management packs in an array. In my example I want to import […]