SCOM Agent Proxy Management Pack v2
Download NEW! Added support for Windows System (HKCU) proxy settings. First, the bad news: This new MP version requires a rip and replace of your previous version (and any overrides). The good news: Now you can manage your System proxy settings easily. Why might you need to manage your Windows System proxy settings? When your …. Read More
SQL MP Debug Logging – On/Off with a Simple Agent Task
Sometimes you need to activate SQL Management Pack debugging. The SCOM product group makes it relatively easy; by creating a registry key to instantly begin writing debug information to the Operations Manager event log. ‘HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft Operations Manager\3.0\SQL Management Packs\EnableEvtLogDebugOutput\SQL Server MP’ To make things even easier, here are two tasks: Enable: Disable Logging should begin …. Read More
M365 Monitoring – Filter Service Alerts with Selective Discovery
The current version of the management pack has really cool logic baked into the service incident alert rules so that only one alert should exist at any given time for a specific incident, regardless of how many updates are added to the incident. However, every time an update is provided, the previous alert is closed …. Read More
M365 Services Supplemental Monitoring Management Pack v3
We recently updated v3 of the M365 Services Supplemental MP to provide some performance improvements, feature enhancements and address a few general housekeeping items, we are excited to announce it is now available for download!
Clean All Obsolete MP References From Your SCOM Management Group
An easy way to clean out obsolete management pack alias references.
SCOM Management Pack for Azure SQL Managed Instance
This won’t be an exhaustive tutorial on all facets of the MP, only my notes on my experiences with manual vs automatic monitoring setup of the Azure SQL MI MP ( https://www.microsoft.com/en-US/download/details.aspx?id=101203 ). It will mostly be screenshots and notes of how I accomplished setup for both approaches specifically for my lab. Basic Requirements Note: …. Read More
Cleaning old health state change data made easy
The SCOM Maintenance MP that I published in 2022 made purging discovery data and config synch effortless. Newly added to the MP are the following agent tasks: State change history is recorded for every monitored object when the health state for any monitor changes between Healthy, Warning, and Critical. If the object is in an …. Read More
Detected malicious verification code error
Detected malicious verification code when verifying element of type Microsoft.EnterpriseManagement.Configuration.ManagementPackRule with inner exception: System.Collections.Generic.KeyNotFoundException: The given key was not present in the dictionary When building a management pack in Visual Studio you may run into this very ambiguous error shown below. This can happen for a number of reasons Summary I should have used the …. Read More
M365 Services Supplemental Monitoring Management Pack v3 (3.0.1.5)
2023.07.31: Update – Due to recent changes in Azure/Graph the Services management pack now requires the user account to be assigned the “Message Center Reader” role. We plan to update the MP guide in the near future.(Ref: https://monitoringguys.com/2023/07/28/graph-api-healthoverviews-403-forbidden/ ). We recently updated v3 of the M365 Services Supplemental MP to provide some performance improvements, feature …. Read More
Visual Studio New SCOM Management Pack Project HRESULT: 0x80041FE1
If Visual Studio doesn’t have the necessary components installed, VS may fail to open your management pack project. Here’s an example of a failure when creating a new SCOM management pack. The ActivityLog.xml shows some interesting entries… C:\Users\typaul\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\VisualStudio\17.0_56cc09fb Notice all the failures related to “Modeling.Sdk“ Solution Launch the Installer to modify the VS 2022 installation …. Read More
