This is based on 6.6.4.0 version of the SQL MP First – understand the SQL MP discovers the following items: SQL Database SQL DB File Group SQL DB File SQL DB Log File The Database > hosts > DB File Group > hosts DB File. Also – the…
When we write scripts for SCOM workflows, we often log events as the output, for general logging, debug, or for the output as events to trigger other rules for alerting. One of the common things I need when logging, is the ability to write parameters to the event. This helps…
A common request I hear is the customer wants to monitor for events in a Windows Event log. That part is easy. We have simple event rules and monitors for that activity. However – what if the data in the event log needed to be parsed, or modified in some…
When testing OMS (Previously called Advisor) with SCOM, there is one side effect: Once connected, the OMS rules import management packs into your management group with no notification or change control process for you. Furthermore – if you want to remove OMS Management packs from a SCOM management group, there…
This capability has been around forever, but I have never seen it documented. This is a really cool way to generate alerts as if they came from other agents, but target a different agent. Suppose a scenario: You have a client/server application (such as a backup program) where a central…
I recently had an interesting customer issue. We were deploying a new management group to do some performance testing of the impact to SCOM performance as we scale up agents. This particular management group only had the default MP’s from installing SCOM, and the Base OS MP’s. Nothing more. When…
This is a common practice for rotating old physical servers coming off lease, or when moving VM based management servers to a new operating system. There are some generic instructions on TechNet here: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh456439.aspx however, these don’t really paint the whole picture of what all should be checked first. …
I had a customer request the ability to monitor the cluster service on clusters, and ONLY alert when a recovery attempt failed. This is a fairly standard request for service monitoring when we use recoveries – we generally don’t want an alert to be generated from the Service Monitor, because…
One of the challenges we face in SCOM 2012, is that we cannot treat a “Windows Computer” as a network devices. When network discovery runs, we actually filter out Windows devices from SNMP based discovery. This is a change in SCOM 2012 from 2007, and I am not sure why…
I had a customer looking for an example of how SCOM can monitor a server for multiple reboots in a period of time. I previously wrote about the typical scenario of looking for repeated events in a defined time period here: https://kevinholman.com/2014/12/18/creating-a-repeated-event-detection-rule/ However – this wont work across reboots. The…