Most customers who are using SCOM need sooner or later tips and resources to check if their SCOM databases are in proper condition and might want to check if there are some performance issues. The Operations Manager team has just published a very useful post for troubleshooting database performance issues. In addition there is a […]
Troubleshooting
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 […]
SCSM – Set Work Item State / Activity State via PowerShell
I do currently a lot of automation and today I had a need to change state of a service request. The service request itself was “Closed” and as you might know, you cannot change anything if the work item is set to “Closed”. Because I needed to trigger the runbook activities behind the service request […]
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 […]
SMA – Runbooks Not Showing Up (e.g. Cireson SMA Connector)
My colleague and I have been developing runbooks for the past couple of month for automating business services. During this time we have written close to two hundred runbooks. Key application in triggering the runbooks is System Center Service Manager (SCSM) in conjunction with Cireson’s SMA Connector. This works great up to the past month […]
SMA – SMA Runbook Toolkit (SMART) Watch The Encoding
Recently while building some serious SMA runbooks I bumped in an issue. We usually develop the SMA runbooks in different editors like PowerShell ISE / SMA GUI / Notepad++ and keep them saved in TFS online, which we managed through Visual Studio. After we finished developing the runbook, which would update the runbook activity in […]
SCSM – SMLets “The criteria could not be parsed. See inner exception for details.”
If you are using the SMLets from codeplex in combination with PowerShell remoting to retrieve information from Service Manager it could well be that you hit this error: The criteria could not be parsed. See inner exception for details. + CategoryInfo : OperationStopped: (:) [], InvalidCriteriaException + FullyQualifiedErrorId : The criteria could not […]
SCOM 2012 R2 – Operations Manager Survival Guide
Some are might not aware that there is an excellent maintained list of very useful sources for System Center Operations Manager called The System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager Survival Guide . If you are working with SCOM this is a must have in your link list. You will find a summary of excellent blog […]
SCOM 2012 – PowerShell Grid Widget & Web Console Pitfall
In the past posts I have blogged about the new dashboard widgets primarily about PowerShell Grid & Web Widget. As in every technology there are cases were you stumble on some errors. This happens to me while playing with the PowerShell Grid Widget. The following code should list all processes which have a CPU value […]
SCOM 2012 R2 – Web Console Error “Connection session is not found”
Today while installing SCOM in the lab faced a strange issue. When I tried to open the web console I faced this error… Microsoft.EnterpriseManagement.Presentation.DataAccess.DataProviderException: An error occurred executing the command: [Microsoft.EnterpriseManagement.Presentation.Security!DeclaredAssemblyDataProvider/GetAssemblies] in provider: [Microsoft.EnterpriseManagement.Presentation.Security.DeclaredAssemblyDataProvider, Microsoft.EnterpriseManagement.Presentation.Security, Version=7.0.5000.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35]. : Connection session is not found.