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
Have you ever wanted to simply click a server object and see all of the effective rule and monitor configuration settings in one view? Now you can. NOTES: This dashboard isn’t perfect. I’ve seen some weird behavior on occasion. Sometimes the top right widget will update with content from other widgets that exist in other …. Read More
When I first attempted to upgrade my lab instance from Operations Manager 2012 SP1 Upgrade to R2 the process failed and initiated a rollback. I found that my path to the Setup.exe was entirely too long due to folder nesting. The Setup.exe was located in: C:\SCOM_INSTALL\System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager (x86 and x64) – …. Read More
Here’s an easy script to set the primary and secondary management servers for all agent managed computers in your management group. Just run this on any management server: *Note: this script works well for agents that have never been assigned parent/failover with PowerShell. Once you use PowerShell to assign parents, it becomes problematic to assign …. Read More
This is just a reference page for the various error codes that you might encounter when using the URLProbe in Operations Manager workflows. Error code Status or Value 100 HTTP_STATUS_CONTINUE 101 HTTP_STATUS_SWITCH_PROTOCOLS 200 HTTP_STATUS_OK 201 HTTP_STATUS_CREATED 202 HTTP_STATUS_ACCEPTED 203 HTTP_STATUS_PARTIAL 204 HTTP_STATUS_NO_CONTENT 205 HTTP_STATUS_RESET_CONTENT 206 HTTP_STATUS_PARTIAL_CONTENT 207 HTTP_STATUS_WEBDAV_MULTI_STATUS 300 HTTP_STATUS_AMBIGUOUS 301 HTTP_STATUS_MOVED 302 …. Read More
UPDATE: 2021.06.10Workflow Analyzer has been reborn! See here for more details. https://monitoringguys.com/2021/02/05/workflow-analyzer-for-scom-is-back/ Recently I borrowed a lab instance of Operations Manager 2012 R2 from a friend. I was attempting to troubleshoot a discovery in a management pack that I’ve been working on when I encountered some trouble with the Workflow Analyzer (wfanalyzer.exe). The WFA is a …. Read More