Kevin Holman has postet a valuable summary of permissions needed in SCOM. It is about accounts needed and customizing the SCOM console! Great article! You will find it here.
Author: stefanroth
MPViewer, OverrideExplorer, Proxy Settings – Tools Ready for SCOM 2012
Mostly I try to post my own content, but sometimes we have to blog about great things… Boris Yanushpolsky has re-compiled his tools for SCOM 2012. Great! Here the blog post from Daniele Muscetta. Tool: MPViewer 1.9The previous version 1.7 (that works with OpsMgr 2007 and 2007 R2) was released here. Version 1.9 has been […]
Manual SCOM Agent Installation Server Core – Different Forest, No Gateway
Maybe you face a situation where you must install a SCOM agent on a Windows server core e.g. Hyper-V host. Let’s assume the server core is in a different forest and in the target forest you don’t have a gateway server in place. This means you have to get a certificate for each machine/agent and […]
SCOM 2012 MP–Management Group Information Report Version 0.1
I have been playing around for some time with the new SCOM PowerShell cmdlets and I wanted to write a management pack. So I combined both worlds and Management Group Information MP was born. The idea behind this “project” is to get all information from the SCOM infrastructure I possibly need as easy and as […]
SCOM 2012 Virtual Labs – Explore SCOM 2012
Here a short blog post just in case you didn’t know. Microsoft has created a virtual lab for SCOM 2012 it is called “System Center 2012 Operations Manager: Infrastructure and Application Performance Monitoring” . There you are able to explore Dashboards, Application Monitoring and Network Monitoring. The good point is you have access to more […]
SCOM 2012 Maintenance Mode Script – Computer maintenance mode depending on SCCM 2012 collection membership
Maintenance mode is always something you are facing during System Center setups. Let’s say you have a SCCM administrator who want’s to deploy it’s Windows updates on a certain day e.g. Tuesday @ 08.00 p.m. o’clock, and he also decides to reboot each server forcefully after successful deployment. Because we (SCOM administrators) have to find […]
SCOM 2012 Agent Discovery – The user does not have sufficient permission to perform the operation
In SCOM 2007 R2 during the installation process you were ask to enter a SCOM administrator group. This group was automatically added in the SCOM console to Administration/User Roles/Profile: Administrator/Operations Manager Administrators. In SCOM 2012 per default the server local BUILTIN\Administrators group will be added. So far so good. If you decide to remove this […]
Not monitored Domain Controllers still showing under Windows Computers – Active Directory MP DiscoverAgentOnly
If you are monitoring Active Directory in a multi-domain environment you might only want to monitor certain domain controller because you don’t have the administrative sovereignty nor any permission to access the other systems.In that case you probably installed the SCOM agents to your domain controllers and imported the Active Directory management pack. If so […]
Fixing Citrix WMI errors 0x80041001 / 0x80041002 – XenApp 6
I am sure during your Operations Manager career you already faced some WMI errors while installing e.g. Active Directory or XenApp management packs. A few days ago I installed the XenApp 6.0 MP in SCOM 2007 R2. Suddenly errors 0x80041001 and 0x80041002 appeared in Active Alerts view. WMI errors are always kind of pain in […]
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 […]