This article will walk through a basic install and configuration for SQL Always On, to be leveraged by SCOM for higher availability. This is no way aligned to Clustering and SQL best practices – just an example on how to set one up for a simple testing deployment. The…
This is a planning checklist that will help you determine if an in-place upgrade is possible, and how to prepare the environment in advance for it. It is similar to my previous post on Upgrading SCOM 2016 to SCOM 2019. 1. Verify we are moving from a supported…
Below you will find a security account matrix for SCOM 2022, that includes all the common service and security accounts in SCOM, and their default or recommended permissions. This includes the management servers, the database servers, SQL Role permissions, and database mappings. You can use this to correct deployments where…
I was recently working with a customer who had 40 Gateway servers in SCOM. They also recently upgraded their SCOM version. Upgrading each of these gateways is a big pain for them, as they are in firewalled environments, and they have to request temporary administrative access just to do maintenance.…
This post will give some very basic examples on how to get started using PowerShell Grid Widgets. PowerShell grid widgets in SCOM dashboards are really powerful, but hard to understand and therefore difficult to use. There are not many good examples on the web anymore. We need to start somewhere…
KB Article for OpsMgr List of New Features Download Update Rollup from the Catalog Download the NEW Simplified Management Server Update EXE Download Updated UNIX/Linux Management Packs Recommended hotfix page New Features: Support for Windows 11 Support for .NET 4.8 UI improvements in Operations console Support for sort option by…
There is already a very good deployment guide posted on Microsoft Docs here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/system-center/scom/deploy-overview The following article will cover a basic install of System Center Operations Manager 2022. The concept is to perform a limited deployment of SCOM, only utilizing as few servers as possible, but enough to demonstrate the…
You probably have a lot of agents that are not up to date. Perhaps you recently did a side by side migration and have a lot of older SCOM agents that need an upgrade. Perhaps you are just way behind on getting the latest update rollup out? Did you know…
A common requirement for more complex MP’s is cookdown. Cookdown is a concept where multiple workflows run on a healthservice, and share a common datasource. When cookdown works properly, the datasource will only execute once, even when called by multiple workflows. This saves precious resources, as these are commonly…
Quick download: SCOM.GatewayMaintenanceMode (github.com) This is an often requested solution – how do we stop alert storms from agents being unavailable when there is a network outage causing it – not a real server down issue? This post is dedicated to a Management Pack based solution for such. This…