SCOM Management Pack Comparison Organization Chart Made Easy with Powershell
Keeping your management packs in sync across management groups can be a challenge. Here’s an easy way to create a comparison chart/report with PowerShell.
Microsoft.SQLServer.Windows.Monitoring SQL Queries (v7.0.34.0)
Now that the SQL management packs rely heavily on DLLs it’s not easy to determine what the workflows are doing or how they do it. These are the queries used for many of the workflows within this management pack.
SCOM Unit Monitor Health Recalculate and OnDemand Detection
If you’ve ever used Health Explorer it’s likely that you’ve seen the Recalculate button. If you’ve ever clicked it, you’d know that it isn’t very exciting. Often times it doesn’t really respond or provide feedback. If you’re lucky you will see the confirmation window shown above but that doesn’t mean it will actually do anything. …. Read More
M365 Services Supplemental Monitoring Management Pack v2
Hey Everyone! We are excited to announce that v2 of the M365 Services Supplemental MP is now available for download! We have continued to improve the flexibility and deliver a streamlined easy to implement monitoring solution for your organization. We have added additional real-time service test Console tasks to ease the pain of troubleshooting and …. Read More
Retirement of the Office 365 Communications API Endpoint
Hey Everyone, I received an email about a month or so ago asking if we were aware that the Office 365 Communications API endpoints https://manage.office.com and https://manage.office.com/api/v1.0 were about to be retired. You can read the announcement here. While we haven’t published any updates here recently, I want to ensure you we have been busy …. Read More
Verify SQL Server Securables with SCOM Agent Task
This management pack contains two tasks as shown in the screenshot below.(Or run the scripts manually, see here.) History: 2022.01.07.1719 – v1.0.0.12 – Added ‘msdb.dbo.SQLAGENT_SUSER_SNAME’ per Hugh Scott’s suggestion.
Microsoft.SQLServer.Windows.Monitoring SQL Queries (v7.0.32.0)
Now that the SQL management packs rely heavily on DLLs it’s not easy to determine what the workflows are doing or how they do it. These are the queries used for many of the workflows within this management pack.
SCOM Agent Proxy Management Pack
New! Version 2 Here 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 …. 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