KB Article for OpsMgr: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4024942/update-rollup-14-for-system-center-2012-r2-operations-manager Download catalog site: http://www.catalog.update.microsoft.com/Search.aspx?q=4024942 UNIX/Linux Management Packs: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=29696 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 can always just apply the…
Well, sort of, anyway. Quick Download: https://github.com/thekevinholman/SNMPDiscoveryFromCSV I have written on SNMP monitoring in SCOM a few times: https://kevinholman.com/2015/02/03/snmp-trap-monitoring-with-scom-2012-r2/ https://kevinholman.com/2015/12/16/how-to-discover-a-windows-computer-as-a-network-device-in-scom-2012/ https://kevinholman.com/2016/04/20/writing-a-custom-class-for-your-network-devices/ This one will be a little different. One of the challenges I have heard many times with SCOM – is that we must discover a…
AD integration has been around since SCOM 2007 first shipped. The concept is simple – the ability to deploy agents as part of a build process to the OS, but with the SCOM agent left un-configured. Then the SCOM agent checks with Active Directory in its local domain,…
I wrote an example of this a long time ago. I was never happy with it, as it was VBScript based, hard to troubleshoot, and required lots of editing each time you wanted to reuse it. It was also error prone, and didn’t work if the SQL query results…
I thought I’d take a moment to publish my SCOM script template. Whenever I am writing a SCOM script for monitoring, discovery, or automation, there are some “standards” that I want in all my scripts. 1. I personally feel that all script running in SCOM should at the…
Quick Download: https://github.com/thekevinholman/SQLFix18054EventsSysmessages When SCOM is installed – it doesn’t just create the databases on the SQL instance – it adds data to the sysmessages view for different error scenarios, to the Master database for the instance. This is why after moving a database, or restoring a DB backup…
There have been a bunch of examples of this published over the years. Some of them worked well, but I was never happy with many of them as they were often VBscript based, hard to troubleshoot, and required lots of editing each time you wanted to reuse them. …
Time sync is critical in today’s networks. Experiencing time drift across devices can cause authentication breakdowns, reporting miscalculations, and wreak havoc on interconnected systems. This article shows a demo management pack to monitor for time sync across your Windows devices. The basic idea was – to monitor all systems…
We have some REALLY good documentation on this here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/log-analytics/log-analytics-windows-agents PowerShell and the Agent Scripting Objects make it really easy to control the Log Analytics (previously OMS) MMA direct agent configuration on thousands of agents, using SCOM. Here are some PowerShell examples: # Load agent scripting object $AgentCfg…
One of the coolest things about SCOM is how much monitoring you get out of the box. That said, one of the biggest performance impacts to SCOM is all the monitoring out of the box, plus all the Management Packs you import. This has a cumulative effect, and over…