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SMA – Error “Root element is missing”

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 child runbook, from a parent runbook function. SMA returned an error “Root element is missing” I simplified the structure so it looks like this… Function […]

SCOM 2012 – MAS Tool V 1.0

I had a requirement to have some sort of tool to easily enable and disable subscriptions and also close alerts in one shot. Of course my first thought was to use PowerShell, but soon I figured out that there is a lack of functionality. If you try to disable and enable a subscription you will […]

SCOM 2012 – Find SCOM Object for “Unknown” ID in Alert

There are sometimes alerts which might contain some strange id’s which are not as informational as you might would like have. One way to find out what is hiding behind this id is to use a SCOM Powershell command. As an example, today I received an alert that looked like this…