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 won’t work. SCOM offers a good DNS MP which monitors essential parts of your DNS infrastructure. Something that is missing and I think makes sense […]
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SCOM 2012 – New PowerShell Web Browser Widgets Using Agent Location
Microsoft has shipped the long awaited and promised widgets for building new and cool dashboards. The System Center Operations Manager Team has released a short documentation and a bit more details you will find on TechNet Wiki: System Center Operations Manager Engineering Blog TechNet Wiki Operations Manager Dashboard Widgets One information which you won’t find […]
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 used for dynamic groups or maybe just to append some more information to the class instance. Imagine you are using a registry discovery for populating […]
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 trouble getting SNMP Traps working in SCOM 2012. The difference between SCOM 2007 R2 and SCOM 2012 (R2) in terms of network monitoring is, that […]
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 and testing some stuff. Recently I had a requirement to build views according to Unix teams. There were different Unix / Linux distributions, all kind […]
Quick Post – SCOM Script Monitor Customizing Alert Name
This time I needed to build a two-state script monitor to test several file shares for availability. The script works in multiple steps… Try to access the shared folder Create a file within the share Check if the file exists Delete the file If one of the tests above would fail, we need to get […]
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 browsing through the SCOM console is just too time consuming and / or too complicated. There are not many ways of providing a simple solution […]
SQL Server Management Pack – Populate Run As Account With Agent Objects In One Shot (PowerShell)
I have so many ideas from other products which I would like to blog about, but somehow I get stuck with SCOM all the time, like an addict. Well, today I implemented the SQL Server management pack for a large customer and as you might know you need to configure a Run as account and […]
SCOM 2012 – Get Alerts From SCOM Group Showing Alert Source Information (Management Pack, Object Path, Monitor / Rule Name etc.)
Well I don’t know why, but I got stuck again to PowerShell. It seams that this language solves many problems in a SCOM operator’s daily work. I had recently the need for having enriched alert information depending on a certain amount of computers in SCOM. Sounds complicated? Well, I’ll explain it a bit more. I […]
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 reason to group your windows computers, you will need to group your windows computer objects dynamically. One option which I recommend is grouping the objects […]