SCOM – Silect Software / Infront Consulting MP University Recordings
stefanroth On August 12, Silect Software and Infront Consulting hosted a webinar about MP authoring with all the big shots in the management pack authoring space. I did also attend the…
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SCOM 2012 – Monitor SMA Runbook Instance (VSAE Sample MP)
When you are starting to automate processes in your company you soon will find out, that not all runbooks will run for a short time. There are also cases where…
SCOM 2012 – Check DNS Servers And DNS Records / IP MP
In today’s world of IT everything is still heavily depending on DNS. It can be the most sophisticated application / technology if DNS does not work all other parts also…
SCOM – Populate Attributes Through PowerShell
This time I would like to show a cool idea about modifying class instance properties. In SCOM we usually use registry or WMI discoveries to populate attributes. These attributes are…
SCOM 2012 – SNMP Traps, How The Heck Do I Get It Working?
In this post I would like to share some know-how and my personal experience, because I have seen it so many times in the forums and other blogs which had…
SCOM 2012 – VSAE Extend Unix Class For Dynamic Grouping
Some time ago I wrote a post where I extended a Linux class for dynamic grouping using the Visual Studio Authoring Extensions (VSAE). Well, this was just for playing around…
SCOM 2012 – NiCE Log File Library MP Monitoring Robocopy Log File
If you are reading my blog frequently, you know I like excellent ideas, solutions and superb management packs. This time, a company called NiCE is going to provide such a…
SCOM 2012 – Effective Configuration Viewer The PowerShell Way
A customer requested to have a capability to get an overview of the effective configured settings for rules / monitors and its values for Windows Computer objects. For some administrators…
SCOM VSAE – Custom Dynamic Computer Groups Based On Server Registry Keys
As soon you are implementing SCOM, you are faced with grouping your servers. Either you use the groups for views, overrides or just in subscriptions. Which ever might be your…
SCOM 2012 – Unix/Linux Dynamic Grouping Using VSAE Authoring
SCOM is a great tool for monitoring cross platform systems as for example Linux or other Unix derivate. Although Microsoft invested a lot in cross platform monitoring, one thing I…