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 […]
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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 […]
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 Rule / Monitor Details For Corresponding Workflow Name
Sometimes you receive alerts from SCOM which contain a lot of content in the description. For example in certain cases you receive alert like this… In this description you see the workflow name Microsoft.Windows.Server.2008.NetworkAdapter.PercentBandwidthUsedTotal.Collection. In some cases it is more difficult to figure out a bit more about a workflow and using the GUI search […]
SCOM 2012 R2 – PowerShell To Determine Agent Required Disk Space
Do you use any of the System Center products which use an agent? SCOM is one of these products which needs to have an agent installed on the monitored systems. But do you know how much space an agent really uses? Why is this important? Well, let’s assume you have to monitor an older operating […]
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 2012 – Comparing Deployed Agents vs. Active Directory Computer Objects (PowerShell)
It has been a moment since my last post, but I assume you know how everything goes crazy before Christmas. This time I would like to share a script which is very useful while implementing SCOM. When you deploy agents you will be guided by the SCOM wizard and at the server selection appear only […]
PowerShell 4.0 – Checking SCOM Required Ports
If you are going to install SCOM there are requirements which you have to be aware of. Microsoft has a great article on TechNet which describes precisely what the requirement and supported configuration is for your SCOM setup. Depending on the size of your (distributed) SCOM infrastructure, you might have to install several management servers, […]