SCOM Jerk In The House
Welcome to SCOM Jerk In The House, your go-to chatbot for all things System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)—with just the right dash of attitude. Whether you’re troubleshooting tricky alerts, seeking tips for smoother monitoring, or just want a candid chatbot that doesn’t sugarcoat the quirks of SCOM, you’re in the right place. Get ready for …. Read More
Visual Studio – Target Framework Not Supported
If you’ve ever authored SCOM management packs with Visual Studio Authoring Extensions then you’ve likely run into this issue. There’s no option in the prompt that that will fix this. To my knowledge, the product group hasn’t fixed this yet. There are two solutions that I know of: Option 1. Modify .mpproj The first solution …. 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
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: OpsDB DW 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 …. Read More