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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 […]

OMS – OMS Gateway Chaining

I had an interesting question few weeks ago, which I could not answer for sure. I was asked, if it is possible to chain OMS gateways. I would have said yes in the first place, because they are just proxies. But so far I haven’t tested it. So, I decided to build this scenario in […]

SCOM 2012 – Find Workflow From Windows Event

When you are deploying SCOM agents to many servers from a test or prod environment, it could happen that a server administrator steps up to you and tells you that he has many strange event log entries which are probably from SCOM. Like in this example here…