The Monitoring Guys

  NOTE: These example sudoers configurations are compatible with SCOM 2012 R2. There have been some minor changes to the nix deployment kit names in SCOM 2016 and these changes have not been added below… YET. If you would like to submit your additions for SCOM 2016, please do so in the comments and the ….  Read More

2018.03.23: (This is a reboot of a previous post. I revised the title, script, and photos a bit.) I was working on a support case recently when it was brought to my attention that this cmdlet, Export-SCOMEffectiveMonitoringConfiguration,  does not output ALL contained instance configurations even when the “-RecurseContainedObjects” parameter is used. Yes, really!  It outputs configuration data for only one ….  Read More

Never store overrides in the “Default Management pack”. Don’t do it.    In fact, rename the Default Management Pack right now to:  DO NOT USE – Default Management Pack – DO NOT USE     If you store an override in the Default Management Pack then somewhere a puppy loses its ears and then Andres ….  Read More

Root Certificate:Every mgmt server, every gateway, every untrusted (or non-domain) agent/machine will require installation of the ROOT CA certificate. This certificate will need to be imported into the Local Computer -> Trusted Root Certification Authorities store by using the MMC with the Certificates snap-in. Instructions below. (if the mgmt server IS the root CA, the ….  Read More

SQL RunAs account configuration is one of those SCOM topics that seem to be more on the tricky side of things. There are a number of articles hanging around the “innerwebs” that provide some level of instruction on ways that one might go about it. Kevin Holman offers an excellent article that explains much of what you would ….  Read More

I was recently working on creating some agent Powershell tasks for a management pack project and it occurred to me: I don’t fully understand how agent tasks get executed. What I mean is, I know how they work for the most part thanks to the school of hard knocks and also this fantastic explanation: http://thoughtsonopsmgr.blogspot.com/2010/08/scom-tasks-part-i-introduction.html ….  Read More

Management pack and Guide available for download here: Let me start by first saying that I was inspired to start this project after dissecting a very cool solution by Kristopher Bash. Without this excellent example, I would have never set out on this authoring journey. A few years ago I was working for a large eCommerce ….  Read More

I recently visited a customer who wanted to implement the HP Agentless Monitoring Management Pack in their environment. I hadn’t used this pack before and I couldn’t find much (easy reading) online about the requirements or installation procedure therefore it required quite a bit of research to fully understand what is required to use it. Here’s ….  Read More

In September of 2010 Tao Yang wrote a fantastic Powershell script (v2.0 here) for command channel notifications in System Center Operations Manager. Here is my adaptation of the script. NOTE: This post was migrated from Technet and the formatting leaves a lot to be desired. I’ve tested this thoroughly in my lab and I suggest you ….  Read More

UPDATE: 2021.06.10See SCOMHelper PowerShell module for the Effective Monitoring report functions.https://monitoringguys.com/2019/11/12/scomhelper/ Operations Manager 2012, R2 – UR2 I was working on a support case recently when it was brought to my attention that this cmdlet does not output ALL contained instance configurations even when the“-RecurseContainedObjects“parameter is used. Yes, really!  It outputs configuration data for only one ….  Read More