I like to play around with PowerShell and I am always looking for new cmdlets Microsoft creates for us. Isn’t it like getting Christmas gifts all the time :)? Today I wanted to find out if there are any new gifts in SCOM 2012 R2 (Preview). For a reference I will compare a SCOM 2012 […]
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Quick Post – Import-SCOMManagementPack : The requested management pack is not valid. See inner exception for details.
I have seen in the forum there are some difficulties using the Import-SCOMManagementPack cmdlet for SCOM 2012. Some time ago I wrote a post about how to import multiple MPs using Import-SCOMManagementPack. If you try to import just one MP you might get a meaningless error in PowerShell like this…
PowerShell – JSON-RPC 2.0 Interaction Connecting SCOM
SCOM is the best monitoring system on this planet but there are also other systems around. You might find yourself in a situation where you need to get some information from the other monitoring system into SCOM. Because there is probably not a supported connector for SCOM available we have to find a way to […]
MMS 2013 Download Sessions – Offline Viewing
Last year I published a PowerShell script to download the MMS sessions. It has been such a great success that I got a lot of nice responses. Therefore I made just small changes and it will work for the MMS 2013 also since they are published on channel 9. But as we are used to […]
SCOM 2012 – Getting SCOM SNMP Device Properties in PowerShell
Have you ever tried to access a network device respectively network device properties in SCOM using PowerShell? Let’s say you want to access the network device’s IP address, vendor or description for using in a script? Well, I am sure you will run into a problem which you probably don’t expect. You might think, easy, […]
SCOM 2012 – Install SCOM PowerShell Modules Without SCOM Console Installation
Yes we all know less is sometimes more. This saying does not only belong to the human bodyweight, nope, since the Windows Server Core area we all know less “*.dll” is better. Like this saying, a few days ago I had been asked an interesting question. How can we use the SCOM PowerShell module without […]
SCOM 2012 – Server Boot Check and Availability HTML Report (PowerShell Script)
As there are many good ideas out there and so many bright minds, you just have to pull all this energy together mix it with your own ideas and you will create wonderful things. A practical example would be the following story. A customer who likes simple things came up with an idea. Imagine you […]
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 and the .Net Activity. I installed Orchestrator 2012 SP1 on Windows Server2008 R2 which has PowerShell 2.0 installed natively. Then I wanted to use the […]
Quick Post – Get “Register this connection’s addresses in DNS” Setting Quickly
Today I had an urgent requirement to get from a selected part of servers the network setting “Register this connection’s addresses in DNS”. The reason was, that some server didn’t register their settings in DNS because this setting was not set and therefore the A-record was not registered in DNS. My time was limited approximately […]
SCOM 2012 – SCOM Task Collection MP V 1.0
Update 07.03.2013: There is an updated version of this management pack and post. Please check the post found here. As the new year just started every one has many New Year’s resolutions, one of mine New Year’s resolution and also driven by customers was to create a SCOM task management pack which should contain as […]