Silect MP Author Professional just added support for Visual studio fragments. If you didn’t get to attend the webinar on this – here is the recording. MP Authoring just got really easy, and really FAST. Check out the video and see how using MP fragments can take your SCOM environment…
This is for SCOM 2012 through SCOM 2019. The default setting for new SCOM agents is that Agent Proxy is disabled. You can enable this agent by agent, or for specific agents with script automations. I find this to be a clumsy task, and more and more management…
This applies to SCOM 2016 and later. I will start with what people want most – the “list”: These are the most common changes and settings I recommend to adjust on SCOM management servers. Simply run these from an elevated command prompt on all your management servers. reg add…
***Note – this applies to SCOM 2012 and 2016. This issue is fixed in SCOM 2019 and later. Quick Download: https://github.com/thekevinholman/SCOM.Agent.Version.Addendum.Management.Pack One of the pain points in SCOM is keeping your agents up to date with your current UR level. What makes this worse, is the view…
ACS (Audit Collection Services) in SCOM uses a WMI filter to reject certain events from being collected and stored in the Audit database. This filter supports about 4800 characters, so the filters can get very large and very advanced. It is important to test these before implementing to ensure you…
There are certain management packs that will use product connectors to insert discovery data into SCOM, or to manage alerts. Sometimes, you might find that the vendor did not provide a way to remove these product connectors, when you decide to stop using the MP or solution which created…
When you first install reporting, you have to supply a management server. This is used for SDK based connections that SCOM reporting requires. If you ever retire this management server, reporting will break so this is an additional step to ensure you check whenever you retire a MS. …
This is pretty exciting. Microsoft just shipped a totally new AD MP. This one has no dependencies on the previous ADMP, that has been mostly based on the same core design for the past 15 years! https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=54525 The new ADMP supports monitoring Active Directory when yours DC’s…
I will try to use this post as a running record to help you find all the MP’s that we have released for Windows Server 2016 OS and the unique server roles for which we create MP’s for. As with all MP’s, you should give great scrutiny, and only…
This is a script example on how to get statechangeevents from monitor context using PowerShell. This example uses a URL transaction monitor, but you can change this to any class/classinstance. #Set arrays to empty $Monitor = @() $MonitorColl = @() $States = @() #Get Web Transaction URL Class…