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SCSM – Adding Activities Using SMA / PowerShell Workflow

For the past couple of weeks I have been doing some automation stuff using Service Management Automation (SMA) and therefore PowerShell in conjunction with Service Manager. I like PowerShell very much, especially if I can interact with other systems. As you might know in the “old” days you would use Orchestrator and Service Manager to […]

SCSM – SMLets “The criteria could not be parsed. See inner exception for details.”

If you are using the SMLets from codeplex in combination with PowerShell remoting to retrieve information from Service Manager it could well be that you hit this error: The criteria could not be parsed. See inner exception for details.     + CategoryInfo          : OperationStopped: (:) [], InvalidCriteriaException     + FullyQualifiedErrorId : The criteria could not […]

SCOM 2012 Linux Monitoring (Lab) – Part 3 Agent Deployment

In part 2 we prepared SCOM to get ready for monitoring LINUX. Now we need to deploy the agent. So let’s get started… Here an overview of the steps we need to take: Create monitoring account Modify sudoers file Discovery wizard Redeploy certificate