Office 365 Supplemental Management Pack
The Office 365 Supplemental Management Pack v2 includes synthetic transactions that provide an increased level of visibility into the health of the Office 365 environment. For customers that don’t have an on-premises monitoring solution, they are limited to using the Admin Portal. We are providing this supplemental Management Pack for our customers leveraging System Center …. Read More
Windows Clusters – Discover Multiple Virtual Servers
I ran into a situation last month where my customer noticed that there were numerous Windows Failover Cluster role server names (aka ‘network name’ aka ‘virtual name’) that were not getting discovered by SCOM.
SCOMHelper PowerShell Module – A SCOM Admin’s Best Friend
(installation instructions at bottom) Update: 2020.05.13: Added Export-SCOMOverrides, Deploy-SCOMAgent Export-SCOMOverrides – Will export override data to html, csv, xml, json file formats. Includes a generous amount of workflow and parameter information. Deploy-SCOMAgent – This is an alternative to the OperationsManager Install-SCOMAgent. This version will allow you to specify the installation directory, whereas the original will …. Read More
How to Analyze a SCOM Property Bag
From time to time I find myself writing PowerShell scripts for custom workflows: discoveries, rules, monitors, tasks, etc. Often times the project at hand requires a property bag full of juicy data to be used in the workflow. There are a handful of other blogs that describe what a property bag is but here I’ll …. Read More
SCOM Sudoers Reference
NOTE: These example sudoers configurations are compatible with SCOM 2012 R2. There have been some minor changes to the nix deployment kit names in SCOM 2016 and these changes have not been added below… YET. If you would like to submit your additions for SCOM 2016, please do so in the comments and the …. Read More
Visual Studio ‘Failed to verify module reference’ Authoring SCOM Management Pack, VSAE
Today I’m writing about an elusive problem with a management pack that I was authoring recently. I was writing a generic datasource for a registry discovery; that is a discovery that will instantiate a class based on the existence of a registry key on the Target machine, and generic because I will use a single …. Read More
SCOM: Export Rules, Monitors, Overrides, Settings, Effective Monitoring Configuration with PowerShell
2018.03.23: (This is a reboot of a previous post. I revised the title, script, and photos a bit.) I was working on a support case recently when it was brought to my attention that this cmdlet, Export-SCOMEffectiveMonitoringConfiguration, does not output ALL contained instance configurations even when the “-RecurseContainedObjects” parameter is used. Yes, really! It outputs configuration data for only one …. Read More
Export SCOM Rule and Monitor Knowledge Articles with PowerShell
This has been baked into the SCOMHelper PowerShell module available here. Related: How to Get Knowledge Article from a SCOM Alert with Powershell This will output workflow information (including Knowledge Article content) to an HTML report or CSV file. Script accepts one or more (or all) management pack objects as input. Can export from SCOM using …. Read More
SCOM Operations Manager Shell PowerShell Error When Launched as Administrator
Sometimes when the Operations Manager Shell is opened as an Administrator you will see the error in the screenshot below. I believe this has to do with how User Account Control (or UAC) is configured. The “Start in” parameter on the shortcut is ignored and the shortcut is unable to locate the startup scripts. …. Read More