SMA – Error “Root element is missing”
stefanroth While I was building SMA runbooks in the past couple of months I bumped into this rather strange error. So happen few days ago, I tried to call (invoke) a…
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System Center – RSS Feeds Collection
It doesn’t matter If you are new to the System Center stack or if you have been working many years in the System Center field, we all share the same…
Orchestrator – Another Useful Runbook for SCOM 2012 SP 1
There are certain situations respectively alerts where you can not decide to override or not to override. You would like to see the alert for a certain time but then…
Orchestrator 2012 SP1 – PowerShell 3.0, Run .Net Activity and Get-SCXAgent
New things are not always good things or at least old habits change. I had been working on some runbooks in Orchestrator 2012 SP1 and needed to run PowerShell 3.0…
Orchestrator – Getting Data from SCSM via SCORCH to SNMP to SCSM
In this post I would like to show how to interact with Service Manager objects to get information from SNMP devices and put data back into Service Manager. A customer…
Orchestrator – Use Powershell (only) to Trigger Runbooks
Today I needed a solution which I could trigger a runbook using Powershell only. I found a very flexible and extendable solution on Codeplex.
SCOM 2012 – Maintenance Mode by Powershell, Orchestrator & SCOJobRunner
If you browse the web and you search for a solution to start maintenance mode in SCOM you will find many solutions. There are different approaches which are based on…
SCOM 2012 – Distribut Agents Evenly (50:50)
I am sure you have a small SCOM infrastructure containing 2 management servers and probably 1 SQL server. If you and your colleagues deploy SCOM agents on a daily basis…
SCORCH 2012 – SCOJob Runner Error “The requested operations requires Publish permissions on the Runbook”
There is a very cool and useful tool to trigger Runbooks from a command line. It is called SCOJobRunner and you can download it here. The tool uses the Orchestrator…
Reset Monitor using SCOM 2012 and Orchestrator – A must have Runbook
There is at least one Runbook each SCOM responsible must have. Are you wondering which? Well, I am sure you are always aware of what kind of alert you are…