In general, the *supported* method to add users and groups to user roles is using the console. This is article will demonstrate an alternative method, that might be needed in cases where security got totally messed up, our a critical admin group got deleted. The idea came from Michel Kamp’s…
A scenario might occur where a SQL outage exists, and then the management servers will not automatically connect to SQL again once it comes back up on the network. If you have experienced this you should consider applying this resolution. However – those registry locations have changed in OM 2012. …
This is going to be an example of making a two state monitor to check for the existence of a file on an agent managed server. If the file does not exist, we can run a recovery to copy the file there from a network location. The context of…
Had a customer asking about how to create a monitor that would count the number of files in a folder, and then run a script based recovery to take an action (restart a service) afterwards. This is not a complicated request, but probably a common scenario. There are lots of…
There will be times that we want to make changes to our agent configuration, and often times a script is the simplest way to do this on a large number of agents. Perhaps we want to add an additional management group to the agent, or enable/disable Active directory integration? The…
Resource Pools in SCOM 2012 are an advancement over SCOM 2007, where a resource pool can be used to host instances, that have targeted workflows, and make them highly available. This allowed the “All Management Servers Resource Pool” to host the instances that the RMS used to run in SCOM…
One of the powerful authoring capabilities of Visual Studio Authoring Extensions, is the use of “Snippets” to create lots of monitoring workflows with minimal effort. Snippets can be input manually, or they can use a CSV file with the input data already prepared. I had a request from a customer…
I had an interesting request from a customer. They wanted to collect events that would still continue to be collected, even when the monitored server was in maintenance mode. Quick Download: https://github.com/thekevinholman/Demo.UnhostedClass This presents an interesting challenge. When we place the “Windows Computer” object into maintenance mode, this…
I have written several posts over the years dealing with authoring groups. See many examples here: https://kevinholman.com/2010/07/27/authoring-scom-groups-from-simple-to-complex/ This post will deal with the concept that we might want to create groups in SCOM, of Windows Computer objects, based on the time zone setting for those computers. This might be useful…
We use the scheduler datasource in SCOM for workflows for all kinds of purposes. Most workflows have some concept of a schedule in the datasource to tell how often to inspect for something, like a service running, or to look at perfmon data, or to run a script. The most…