Years ago – I wrote a post on customizing the “Windows Computer” class, showing how to use registry keys to add properties to the “Windows Computer” class, to make creating custom groups much simpler. You can read about the details of how and why here: https://kevinholman.com/2009/06/10/creating-custom-dynamic-computer-groups-based-on-registry-keys-on-agents/ I later updated that…
Years ago – I wrote a post on this, showing how to use registry keys to add properties to the “Windows Computer” class, to make creating custom groups much simpler. You can read about the details of how and why here: https://kevinholman.com/2009/06/10/creating-custom-dynamic-computer-groups-based-on-registry-keys-on-agents/ This post is a simple updated…
Customers often use “My Workspace” to create customized views that they use on a regular basis. However, one of the drawbacks on My Workspace is that these views are not available to any other users. Generally, we recommend customers use My Workspace to test and develop views, then simply re-create…
Resource pools are nothing new – they were introduced in SCOM 2012 RTM, for two reasons: 1. To remove the single-point-of-failure that was the RMS role in SCOM 2007. 2. To provide a mechanism for high availability of agentless/remote workflows, such as Unix/Linux, Network, and URL monitoring, among…
These is an issue with the current Exchange 2010 Correlation Engine – which causes it to fail on SCOM 2012 or 2016 Management Servers. Jimmy wrote about these here: https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/jimmyharper/2015/04/15/exchange-2010-correlation-engine-not-generating-alerts/ So one remedy to this – is to install the Correlation Engine (CE) on a non-management server role. Either…
This is a list of queries that I know many people find helpful in report writing or understanding the SCOM DB schema’s to get useful info. These queries work for SCOM 2012 and later. Large Table query. (I am putting this at the top, because I use it…
Microsoft started including Unix and Linux monitoring in OpsMgr directly in OpsMgr 2007 R2, which shipped in 2009. Some significant updates have been made to this for OpsMgr 2012. Primarily these updates are around: Highly available Monitoring via Resource Pools Sudo elevation support for using a low priv account…
Something that a fellow PFE (Brian Barrington) called to my attention, with SCOM 2016 agents, when installed on a Domain Controller: the agent just sits there and does not communicate. The reason? Local System is denied by HSLOCKDOWN. HSLockdown is a tool that grants or denies a particular RunAs…
When you try and use the new Scheduled Maintenance feature in SCOM 2016 UR1, you will probably see the following error pop up as soon as you select “Maintenance Schedules” in the Operations Console: Date: 10/22/2016 3:03:32 PMApplication: Operations ManagerApplication Version: 7.2.11719.0Severity: ErrorMessage: The EXECUTE permission was denied…
There is already a very good deployment guide posted on Microsoft Docs here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/system-center/scom/deploy-overview The deployment guide provides an excellent walkthrough of installing OpsMgr 2016 for the “all in one” scenario, where all roles are installed on a single server. That is a very good method for doing simple…