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Not monitored Domain Controllers still showing under Windows Computers – Active Directory MP DiscoverAgentOnly

If you are monitoring Active Directory in a multi-domain environment you might only want to monitor certain domain controller because you don’t have the administrative sovereignty nor any permission to access the other systems.In that case you probably installed the SCOM agents to your domain controllers and imported the Active Directory management pack. If so […]

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 […]

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…