Check out the latest video, from my session at Silect MP University This video introduces some new combo fragments to help discover an application, monitor the app, create views for the application owner, all in a single step, with very limited information or time required. Link to recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGFoh2qcUJ4 Silect…
Here are links to several important SCOM tools that have become harder to find over the years: MP Viewer Awesome tool to visualize an MP, unseal, export to Excel, originally posted by Boris, Updated By Daniele Muscetta Also – check out this enhanced fork which adds more features: MPViewer post …
Monitoring clustered applications can be a little tricky. Clusters contains virtual, abstract objects, that could be hosted by one or more nodes. We need to ensure we always monitor the clustered resource, no matter where it is running. We cannot simply target discovery and monitoring to the nodes, because by…
This is a concept that I have seen several examples of, but realize not everyone knows of this capability. You can create a rule, that targets a class hosted by an agent (such as Windows Server Operating System), but have a script response run on the Management Server to take action. Here…
KB Article for OpsMgr: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4459897/update-rollup-6-for-system-center-2016-operations-manager Download catalog site: http://www.catalog.update.microsoft.com/Search.aspx?q=4459897 Updated UNIX/Linux Management Packs: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=29696 Recommended hotfix page: https://kevinholman.com/2009/01/27/which-scom-hotfixes-should-i-apply/ NOTE: I get this question every time we release an update rollup: ALL SCOM Update Rollups are CUMULATIVE. This means you do not need to apply them in order, you…
One of the features that has existed since SCOM 2007R2, is the ability to adjust Alert Storm thresholds on an agent by agent basis. The default is any agent that generates 50 alerts, in a 60 second window – will auto-disable that workflow for 10 minutes to control alert storms.…
It should be a rare occurrence to completely lose a SCOM Management server. Normally you would restore from a backup, or recover a VM snapshot in order to quickly recover a lost/damaged/corrupted SCOM MS. However, in the case this does happen, you have options. The biggest challenge in recovering a…
Many years ago – SCOM was updated to have better granular control over Notification Subscriptions in the UI. We saw many improvements using controls based on group, class, specific rule or monitor, along with other criteria: However – the Product Connector subscription wizard was never updated. …
Had an interesting request – Customer is migrating agents from a complex environment into new management groups. Before they did this – they wanted to ensure that agents were not firewalled off from the new management servers. This can be a monumental task in large environments, especially with unique gateway…
Something that I run across a lot in helping clients test connectivity issues in firewalled environments, is “is there a firewall blocking port 5723 traffic?” In the past we would use tools like Telnet, or Portqry to test port connectivity, but often this is not installed and not easily available. …