There are a number of cool scripts that I’ve collected, borrowed, and written in my travels as a SCOM field engineer and PowerShell enthusiast. I decided to put them all together into one module for easier maintenance and use.
The publicly available links for SCOM management packs don’t always get updated correctly. This has been an issue for the last few releases of the SQL Server MP. As of today, this is the latest release (official download page): Microsoft System Center Management Pack (Release To Manufacturing) for SQL ServerVersion: 7.12.1619.0 NGL, this download offering …. Read More
Introduce two new SCOMHelper PowerShell cmdlets—Get-SCOMDWPerformanceDataSignature and Get-SCOMDWPerformanceData—to quickly discover counters and pull historical, aggregated SCOM performance data from the Data Warehouse for trend reports, capacity planning, and dashboards.
I originally wrote this in 2015 for the Microsoft Store team to monitor cash registers and printers back when Microsoft had retail stores throughout the country. Some years later I saw that some other dude (Jasper) wrote a blog article explaining almost the same monitoring concept so I never bothered to publish this MP. However, …. Read More
RHEL 8.1 / 9.6 SCOM 2022 Agent Deployment – What Worked in My Lab Prerequisites VM Deployment – Deployed VMs using Hyper-V and PowerShell: Example VM Deployment Script RHEL Installation RHEL Configuration Account commands (bash) SCOM Agent Least Privilege Sudoers Sudoers configuration (via /etc/sudoers.d/scom) to enable monitoring and maintenance without giving full root access https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/system-center/scom/manage-security-unix-linux-sudoers-templates?view=sc-om-2025#universal-linux …. Read More