3 days ago Microsoft published a new SQL Server management pack version. In every new MP version there are fixes for some bugs or new monitors / rules and support for new SQL Server versions. This MP is a bit different and I would like to spread the words about a very welcome new summer […]
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SCOM 2012 – What Workflows, MP’s And Objects Run On A SCOM Agent?
I am a huge fan of PowerShell and SCOM and when it comes to combining both forces you can unleash the full power and do almost anything :). In this case I got (also) asked, how you can figure out which management pack is actually used by SCOM agents and eventually display it in a […]
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 you need a runbook, which is using a loop to monitor certain things or trigger other runbooks. In other words, there are cases where you […]
SCOM 2012 – NiCE Log File Library Creating Alert From Mail
Some time ago I blogged about the first release of NiCE Log File Library, you find the post here . I was very excited that NiCE released a free MP which provides lots of rules and monitors that can be configured in countless ways. It provide many capabilities to monitor any kind of log files […]
SCOM 2012 / SCSM 2012 – CMP Tool V 1.0 (Compare Management Pack Tool)
This blog has been quiet for some time because I was quite busy with all kind of stuff. Anyway, this time I would like to share a tool I created to compare management packs in SCOM /SCOM or SCOM/SCSM, SCSM/SCSM management groups. In real life it is hard to compare the current management packs installed […]
TechEd Europe 2014 – SCOM Sessions
I wish I could have attended the TechEd Europe 2014 in Barcelona but since I had the chance to go to TechEd NA 2014 in Houston I already got a good picture what is going on. For those who also could not attend TechEd in Barcelona there is luckily Channel 9 who publishes all the […]
SCOM 2012 – Example Agent Health Check Dashboard Using PowerShell Grid Widgets
In this post I would like to show you what the benefit is of having PowerShell integration in dashboards. The days before having the PowerShell widgets you mostly needed to export your PowerShell queries / results into some sort of text file / Excel sheet etc. to display the result. For example a common request […]
SCOM 2012 – Display & Download MPs Using PowerShell Widgets
A nice and sexy way to have the latest management packs at your fingertips is using the new PowerShell widgets. The SCOM product team shows in their example how you could list the management packs using the PowerShell Grid widget. Stanislav Zhelyazkov also provided a script to fully download all management packs with PowerShell. I […]
SCOM 2012 – New Dashboard Community!
It has been a moment since my last post. This happen because, I was first building my new home and now finishing migrating my (real) home / house in a side-by-side migration scenario. Of course I need to reconfigure the new infrastructure but luckily I am not dual homed anymore. At this very moment I […]
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…