Most of the time I subscribe to the KISS principle when it comes to authoring and SCOM. I rarely recommend customers developing related class hierarchies in their own MP’s. While making visualizations and routing of alerts far more functional, these complex relationships between classes can create much more complex MP’s…
There are times when an application installs a Windows Service that uses inconsistent naming. There might be a scenario where the Computer Name is inserted into the service name, or where random characters get generated in the service name. I wrote about this previously here: https://kevinholman.com/2011/01/20/how-to-monitor-a-service-with-unique-names-across-multiple-computers-using-a-wildcard/ Now, I have…
Quick Download: https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/SCOM-Maintenance-Mode-3563f160 This MP was an idea from Jason Daggett, the original work he did is at: https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/SCCM-Service-Window-to-12a6c8a5 I have simply modified his work in a few ways, which I will explain below. This solution includes a Management Pack, a PowerShell script, and the MP guide. The…
When creating rules and monitors in SCOM, we need a good, specific class for targeting. Often times, a customer will come to you and say “I just wanted to monitor for three services on those 5 computers” In SCOM – doing something that sounds so easy, actually isn’t. What customers…
I ran into this recently when migrating to a new lab Hyper-V server running Windows Server 2019. I noticed after the migration of my VM’s from a Hyper-V 2016 to 2019 server, only half of the CPU’s were being used by my VM’s: I hit up a friend who knows…
Check out my latest session from Silect’s Management Pack University, on Advanced MP Authoring using Fragments. Previous sessions:
There have been many posts about this over the years, and this is nothing new nor groundbreaking. However, I still run into customers who don’t fully understand how this works, how to configure it, and some of the good resources documenting this in the past have disappeared. So, this article…
Just publishing a little script I find handy when I need to free up space on my Hyper-V server. I have a home lab I use from time to time as well as my VMs hosted in Azure. These are hosted on Hyper-V. The VM disks in my lab grow…
One common issue I see regularly, is when customers upgrade their OS in place on Agent monitored systems, or replace and older OS with a new VM and a new OS, but keep the same server name. This practice causes issues for SCOM. You might see duplicate discovered instances across…
There are times when you may wish to automate deleting objects in SCOM. The safest method is always using the Console, or the SDK to delete objects in SCOM, in a manner they were designed to be deleted. There is an option in the SCOM Console to delete discovered Network…