SCOM – Trace Workflow Agent Task
Launch a task, see what the agent is doing. It’s that easy. This post is going to be short and sweet, right to the point with brief instructions on how to get agent trace data in front of your eyeballs as fast as possible. There are basically two types of SCOM traces:1) General – Capture …. Read More
Keep Your Management Pack Files Organized
Easily organize and keep track of your management pack file versions.
vNext Office 365 Supplemental Management Pack
Hey Y’all, I wanted to take a minute today to provide an update regarding future versions of the Office 365 Supplemental Management Pack. Over the last 3 years Taylour Blackwell and myself have been working with a variety of customers implementing v2 of the MP. During this time we’ve collected and compiled an enormous amount …. Read More
Control SCOM Maintenance Mode from the Agent with SCOMAgentHelper Management Pack
This management pack will provide every agent-managed computer with a set of PowerShell commands to control and verify maintenance mode for the Windows Computer object.
SCOM On Demand Discovery Example
This is something that I’ve struggled with in the past because it can be a bit tricky so here’s a quick explanation of how you can trigger On Demand discovery. The Trigger On Demand Discovery task includes the Target ID of the target class ( Microsoft.SystemCenter.HealthService ) but don’t let this fool you. The task …. 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)2021.01.06: v1.34 – Improved error handling in RemoveObsoleteMPRefTask.2020.12.30: v1.33 – Improved GraphViz package detection for New-SCOMClassGraph function.2020.11.19: v1.31 – Improved Update-SCOMComputerGroup2020.09.22: v1.28 – Added Get-SCOMRunningWorkflows2020.08.19: Added Update-SCOMComputerGroup2020.08.12: Added New-SCOMComputerGroup2020.05.13: Added Export-SCOMOverrides, Deploy-SCOMAgent Get-SCOMRunningWorkflows – Will return an object that represents detailed task results for agent task: ‘Microsoft.SystemCenter.GetAllRunningWorkflows’Update-SCOMComputerGroup – Will overwrite an existing …. Read More
How to Analyze a SCOM Property Bag
From time to time I find myself writing PowerShell scripts for custom workflows: 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 show …. 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