SCOM Agent Proxy Management Pack
This is an easy solution to configure your scom agents to use an HTTP proxy. The SCOM agent uses a special configuration file for Powershell probe HTTP traffic. The agent takes its orders from a local config file located at: <agent install path>\MonitoringHost.exe.config ( In the case of my test agent-managed computer: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Monitoring …. Read More
SCOM Alert Management Pack: Alert Workflows
This is the fourth of four related articles discussing the features and capabilities of the SCOM Alert Management Pack. In previous articles about the SCOM Alert Management Pack, we talked about assigning Alert Ownership and mitigating Alert Storms. In this final topic, we’ll introduce basic Alert Workflows. Introduction The SCOM Alert Management Pack contains some …. Read More
SCOM Alert Management Pack: Alert Storm Mitigation
This is the third of four related articles discussing the features and capabilities of the SCOM Alert Management Pack. A common pain point for Operations Manager administrators is the dreaded alert storm. It may be caused by a network outage, unplanned maintenance, a poorly tuned environment or other factors. A single incident will cause OpsMgr …. Read More
SCOM Alert Management Pack: Alert Ownership
This is the second of four articles discussing the features and capabilities of the SCOM Alert Management Pack. In this article, we’ll cover how to automatically set the value of the “Owner” field in Operations Manager alerts using the Alert Management Pack. Introduction By default, the “Owner” field for each OpsMgr alert is left blank. …. Read More
SCOM Alert Management Pack: Overview
Have you ever encountered a question on a certification test that includes the statement, “Your answer must incur the least administrative cost?” There might be a couple of responses that are technically correct, but there’s one answer that represents the “best” solution because it’s the least costly. This Management Pack is our best effort to …. Read More
How do I change the passwords for accounts used in the M365 SMP?
As with most IT Organizations the requirement to change service account passwords has turned out to be a fairly common task. We recently received some questions about changing the passwords in the M365 SMP so I figured that we would cover this in a post and provide instructions on how to change the passwords for …. Read More
Where is my SCOM group?
Groups are defined in management packs. When you create a group in the Console, it gets stored in an unsealed management pack. At the time of this writing, there is no easy way to determine where groups are saved/stored/defined. This can become painful when trying to create monitors or rules in the Console with the …. Read More
Workflow Analyzer for SCOM is back!
Good news! The workflow troubleshooting tool that you might remember from over a decade ago is back and better than ever. Some good folks with the System Center product group have recently listened to this engineer’s crying and pleading. It has finally been rebooted with a few improvements. If my memory serves me correctly (I’m …. Read More
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 – …. Read More
