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…
This is based on the SQL MP Version 7.0.20.0 and later. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=56203 This MP supports discovery and monitoring of SQL 2012, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2019, and later versions of SQL Server. It is completely different than all previously released SQL Management Packs, the older ones I will refer to as…
Mostly hate. Self tuning thresholds were a new concept for OpsMgr 2007. They “attempt” to “learn” what is normal for a performance counter, and alert when the value is outside of the learned baseline. This is great when we have performance counters that will vary widely from company to company,…