One of the built in Monitor types in the SCOM Console, is a repeated event detection monitor. This is a cool way of creating an alert when we want to know when multiple similar events are recorded in a specified time frame. This is helpful for applications that might log…
This post will be a simple walk through on how to create a class for an application, discover instances of that class, and then monitor a service associated with that application: First – make sure you have the latest version of MP Author from Silect: https://www.silect.com/mp-author/ Open up MP author,…
UPDATE 8/15/2018 – The transform tool is no longer available, however a simpler version of this tool from Tim McFadden is: Quick Download: https://github.com/timmcfadden/SCOM-Transform-Tool/releases/download/1/Transform.zip I wrote about basic discovery script troubleshooting here: https://kevinholman.com/2010/03/09/basic-troubleshooting-of-scom-discovery-scripts/ One of the pains when needing to troubleshoot a Discovery script, is getting the script extracted from…
Was working with a customer on this issue: The agent would install correctly, it would even push install (but took forever) or a manual installation would make it show up in pending, but after approval, it would never communicate with a management server. The logs on the management server didn’t…
Q: How can I tell which monitored servers are a VM or a Physical Machine, including VMWare virtual machines? A: We need to disable a discovery, and add a new customized one in a management pack to accomplish this: Quick Download: https://github.com/thekevinholman/SCOM-Virtual-Machine-Discovery-Management-Pack There is a property of the…
Q: I want a list of all my Windows 2008 Computers in SCOM. How can I achieve this easily? A: In My Workspace, create a state view. Give it a name, and for the Object class, choose Windows Server 2008 Computer: Right click the view – and personalize it to…
SCOM has many different ways to monitor for a file size. Here are some simple examples using script and WMI monitor types. In this specific example – this will be a monitor to look for Windows Server Registry Bloat. The monitor will inspect the registry hives for the registry file…
This article is not just a warning about the Dell (Detailed) MP, but the danger of importing ANY management pack into your environment without fully understanding the intended scope, scalability, and any known/common issues. I recently worked with a customer who had an interesting issue. They had a very large…
There are many articles on tweaking certain registry settings for SCOM agents, Gateways, and Management servers, for many reasons. Large deployments, custom 3rd party MP’s, monitoring Exchange 2010 to name a few. Matt Goedtel has a good list on his blog: http://blogs.technet.com/b/mgoedtel/archive/2010/08/24/performance-optimizations-for-operations-manager-2007-r2.aspx Below – I’d like to post some…
It has been a well known requirement for most customers, to be able to Create Groups of Windows Computers that also contain corresponding Health Service Watcher objects. This was needed for Alert Notification subscriptions so that different teams could receive alert notifications filtered by groups, but also include alerts from…