SQL Management Pack for SCOM – v7.12.1619.0
The publicly available links for SCOM management packs don’t always get updated correctly. This has been an issue for the last few releases of the SQL Server MP. As of today, this is the latest release (official download page): Microsoft System Center Management Pack (Release To Manufacturing) for SQL ServerVersion: 7.12.1619.0 NGL, this download offering …. Read More
New PowerShell Function: Get-SCOMPerformanceData – Simplifying SCOM Performance Data Retrieval
Download SCOMHelper Management Pack As SCOM administrators, we’ve all been there, trying to extract performance data from System Center Operations Manager for analysis, reporting, or troubleshooting. While SCOM provides excellent monitoring capabilities, getting to the raw performance data programmatically has often involved complex SDK calls or diving deep into the Operations Manager database. Today, I’m …. Read More
Run Remove-SCOMDisabledClassInstance Without Confirmation Prompt
Summary of Remove-SCOMDisabledClassInstance In System Center Operations Manager (SCOM), there are instances where certain class objects become disabled and need to be removed to maintain a healthy management environment. The Remove-SCOMDisabledClassInstance function automates the process of cleaning up these disabled class instances. This is particularly useful for administrators who manage large SCOM environments and need to regularly clean …. Read More
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