SCOM Printer Monitoring Management Pack Supplement (Updated: Windows Server 2003, 2008, 2012, 2016)
Back in 2010 Steve Rachui posted a fantastic management pack which added support for monitoring Windows 2003 and 2008 print servers. The original post is located here so you can read all about the functionality: In summary: “Printer MP Supplement The focus for building out this MP supplement was to offer individualized printer monitoring. Further, …. Read More
How to Correctly Create an Override for a SCOM Workflow
Never store overrides in the “Default Management pack”. Don’t do it. In fact, rename the Default Management Pack right now to: DO NOT USE – Default Management Pack – DO NOT USE If you store an override in the Default Management Pack then somewhere a puppy loses its ears and then Andres …. Read More
Certificate Request from Standalone CA Certificate Authority for Operations Manager, SCOM 2012/R2
Root Certificate:Every mgmt server, every gateway, every untrusted (or non-domain) agent/machine will require installation of the ROOT CA certificate. This certificate will need to be imported into the Local Computer -> Trusted Root Certification Authorities store by using the MMC with the Certificates snap-in. Instructions below. (if the mgmt server IS the root CA, the …. Read More
Install Standalone CA (Certificate Authority) on Windows Server 2012 R2 for use with Operations Manager
After looking around a bit I couldn’t find a decent tutorial that addressed this specific scenario (not one that demonstrated Powershell anyway). I ended up writing this for a client who didn’t have their PKI infrastructure sorted out yet. I prefer to use Powershell as it is much faster and efficient for these steps. (Just …. Read More
SQL Run As Account Configuration for SCOM Made Easy
SQL RunAs account configuration is one of those SCOM topics that seem to be more on the tricky side of things. There are a number of articles hanging around the “innerwebs” that provide some level of instruction on ways that one might go about it. Kevin Holman offers an excellent article that explains much of what you would …. Read More
How to Get Knowledge Article from a SCOM Alert with Powershell
See SCOMHelper here: https://monitoringguys.com/2019/11/12/scomhelper/
SCOM 2012: How Does an Agent Task Get Executed?
I was recently working on creating some agent Powershell tasks for a management pack project and it occurred to me: I don’t fully understand how agent tasks get executed. What I mean is, I know how they work for the most part thanks to the school of hard knocks and also this fantastic explanation: http://thoughtsonopsmgr.blogspot.com/2010/08/scom-tasks-part-i-introduction.html …. Read More
URLGenie Management Pack for SCOM – An Easy, Powerful Solution for Bulk Website Monitoring
Management pack and Guide available for download here: Let me start by first saying that I was inspired to start this project after dissecting a very cool solution by Kristopher Bash. Without this excellent example, I would have never set out on this authoring journey. A few years ago I was working for a large eCommerce …. Read More
HP Agentless Monitoring with SCOM 2012 R2
I recently visited a customer who wanted to implement the HP Agentless Monitoring Management Pack in their environment. I hadn’t used this pack before and I couldn’t find much (easy reading) online about the requirements or installation procedure therefore it required quite a bit of research to fully understand what is required to use it. Here’s …. Read More
SCOM Enhanced Email Notification Script Version 2.X
In September of 2010 Tao Yang wrote a fantastic Powershell script (v2.0 here) for command channel notifications in System Center Operations Manager. Here is my adaptation of the script. NOTE: This post was migrated from Technet and the formatting leaves a lot to be desired. I’ve tested this thoroughly in my lab and I suggest you …. Read More