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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 […]

SCOM 2012 – Export Grey Agents using Powershell

There was a request in the TechNet forum to get all grey agents in SCOM 2012 using Powershell and export the Displayname and HealthState into a file. Because I haven’t seen a solution I thought I will share these few lines of code maybe you can use them also. #Import the OperationsManager module Import-Module OperationsManager […]

SCOM 2012 Agent Failover – An Event Log Check

Sometimes we need a sign to check that some things happen . For me I wanted to visualize and verify if a SCOM agent failed over properly or not. As you might know the Windows agents do not report to a SCOM 2012 resource pool. If you install an agent on a Windows server the […]