One thing I find in a lot of customer environments, is empty folders. Every time a MP is created in the console, SCOM creates a folder for that MP. These folders are often not used, empty, and just clog up the console. You can delete these manually and I recommend…
Quick Download: https://github.com/thekevinholman/MECM The old System Center Configuration Manager 2012 Management Pack is no longer available. Customers often used this to monitor current branch, and it still works well for the most part. Now that it was pulled, there is a gap for customers who don’t have that old MP,…
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 SQL 2022 Key fixes: See the KB article. There are too many fixes to list here.…
High Level Overview: Import Management Packs Create a resource pool for monitoring Unix/Linux servers Configure the Xplat certificates (export/import) for each management server in the pool. Create and Configure Run As accounts for Unix/Linux. Configure the sudoers file Discover and deploy the agents Import Management Packs: The core…
Quick Download: https://github.com/thekevinholman/Microsoft.KMS Many customers still use KMS activation for on-prem deployments. This management pack will discover and monitor your KMS servers. This MP supports KMS on Windows Server 2012 and later Discovers and Monitors: KMS Servers Key Monitoring Scenarios: KMS Service Idle Minutes Count…
One of the new features in SCOM 2019 and later is HTML based emails. This is great – because they are much more attractive and configurable over the previous plain text. SCOM 2016 and earlier alerts: Has plain text email like this: This same email in…
When you deploy SCOM into a SQL Always On scenario, there are some post-installation procedures that must be configured. When you install SCOM, you will provide the SQL Always On Availability Group Listener (name,port) during setup. That will install the SCOM databases on whichever node is Primary at that time.…
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…