The concept of this article is to give you a general overview of the security model, and rights required, to deploy and operate System Center Operations Manager. For each section, I will link to more detailed documents and articles. What do I need to know? When I have…
SPN’s (Service Principal Names) settings are very similar in OpsMgr 2012 as they were in OpsMgr 2007. However, since the SDK (Data Access) service runs on ALL management servers now… the SPN’s for the SDK (DAS) account will be different now. If you deploy OpsMgr using a standard domain user…
This article is deprecated, and has been replaced with an updated article using the latest SCOM Management packs. Please see: https://kevinholman.com/2020/03/15/monitoring-sql-agent-jobs-in-scom/ I will cover three conceptual areas: Out of the box experience and defaults SQL Agent only monitoring (monitoring all jobs at the agent level) SQL Agent…
Anyone who works with events in the Windows Event log can benefit from this. When creating management packs, or adding monitoring for specific events, it is very helpful to have tools to test fire these events. In the past, we would use built in tools like EventCreate. However, these have limitations in…
In OpsMgr 2012 we have enhanced the capabilities around network monitoring. In this article I will demonstrate how to discover and monitor a network device. This is also covered in great detail at: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh205982.aspx Launch the discovery wizard and select Network Devices: Give a name for your discovery…
The following article will give an example of how to collect performance data into OpsMgr from a VBscript. This will be handy for instances where a perfmon counter does not exist for something that you wish to measure, but you can write a script to output the value and instance…
I didn’t come up with this idea…. I got it from Cameron Fuller who got it from Rory McCaw’s session at MMS last year. So credit goes to both of them for the idea and initially spreading it. As I was talking to many of my colleagues, I found out this is not…
I was installing a gateway in a locked down DMZ environment today, and ran across an issue getting my certificates to work. My DMZ based gateway has NO access to browse the Enterprise CA’s website, so I had to request and issue my certificates, and export them all manually. When…
I was faced with an interesting situation recently. A customer had a request to discover and monitor an application which installs a service, among other things. Whoopty-doo right? Well, the unique part of this request was that the service name varied across different computers. The service name was not static, but contained some static…
I have had several blog posts in the past discussing how to write rules and monitors against multi-instance objects. Special care must always be taken when writing workflows against classes where an agent can host more than one instance of the same class type. Examples would be Logical Disk, SQL…