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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 it can easily happen that not all management servers receive the equal amount of agents. Maybe management server 1 has 300 agents to monitor and […]

PowerShell – Create a Credential Object with NULL Password

In one of my automation tasks I had the need to create a credential object with a $null password – an empty / NULL password. One easy way to do is, create just instantiate a new secure string object using the new() constructor from the .Net class like this: or using New-Object cmdlet like this […]

SCOM 2012 Agent Failover – An Event Log Check

Sometimes we need a sign to check that some things happen . For me I wanted to visualize and verify if a SCOM agent failed over properly or not. As you might know the Windows agents do not report to a SCOM 2012 resource pool. If you install an agent on a Windows server the […]