Category: Management Packs

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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

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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

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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

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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