Clean All Obsolete MP References From Your SCOM Management Group
An easy way to clean out obsolete management pack alias references.
Create a group for disabled SQL engines
My customer has many custom monitoring workflows that target the MSSQL on Windows: DB Engine (Microsoft.SQLServer.Windows.DBEngine) class. For various reasons some of those engines are disabled and they wanted an easy way to override these workflows only for the disabled engines. My goal here is to dynamically populate a group with only disabled SQL engines. …. Read More
Reset SCOM Object Health and Alerts Task
Newly added to the SCOMAgentHelper management pack is a task that is capable of: In the example below you can see the Exchange Online service object has alerts generated from both a rule and a monitor. The task parameter, “ResetMontitorHealth”, is true and therefore will reset the health of the eligible monitors for the instance. …. Read More
SCOM 2022 Installation, gMSA, Standalone Web Console Server with Constrained Delegation
I recently built a new SCOM 2022 lab leveraging gMSA accounts. Included in my lab is an Always On Availability Group, SQL Failover Instance, and a standalone web console server.
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
SCOM Alert Management Pack: Overview
Have you ever encountered a question on a certification test that includes the statement, “Your answer must incur the least administrative cost?” There might be a couple of responses that are technically correct, but there’s one answer that represents the “best” solution because it’s the least costly. This Management Pack is our best effort to …. Read More
How do I change the passwords for accounts used in the M365 SMP?
As with most IT Organizations the requirement to change service account passwords has turned out to be a fairly common task. We recently received some questions about changing the passwords in the M365 SMP so I figured that we would cover this in a post and provide instructions on how to change the passwords for …. Read More
Graphs for SCOM Classes
I generated graphs for all of the classes in my lab (as of 7/3/2020)(I used SCOMHelper to generate these graphs) Master list HERE.
