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

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