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…
Download: https://github.com/thekevinholman/SQLRunAsAddendum Over the years I have written many articles dealing with RunAs accounts. Specifically, the most common need is for monitoring with the SQL MP. I have explained the issues and configurations in detail here: Configuring Run As Accounts and Profiles in OpsMgr – A SQL Management Pack…
Normally – when you have a trust with a remote account domain, and you want to add users from the rote domain to SCOM, things go perfectly. However, if the user account in the remote domain uses a different UPN name than the SAM account name – the SCOM UI…
This is Part 8 in a series of posts described here: https://kevinholman.com/2016/06/04/authoring-management-packs-the-fast-and-easy-way-using-visual-studio/ In our next example fragment – we will create Monitor for Windows Performance for our MP. Step 1: Download and extract the sample MP fragments. These are available here: https://github.com/thekevinholman/FragmentLibrary I will update these often as I…
This is part 7 in a series of posts described here: https://kevinholman.com/2016/06/04/authoring-management-packs-the-fast-and-easy-way-using-visual-studio/ In our next example fragment – we will create custom groups and add them to our MP. Groups are a critical part of any management pack. We will use them for overrides, to scope monitoring views, and to…
This is Part 6 in a series of posts described here: https://kevinholman.com/2016/06/04/authoring-management-packs-the-fast-and-easy-way-using-visual-studio/ In our next example fragment – we will create a folder and views to see our monitoring data we have generated thus far. Step 1: Download and extract the sample MP fragments. These are available here:…
This is Part 5 five in a series of posts described here: https://kevinholman.com/2016/06/04/authoring-management-packs-the-fast-and-easy-way-using-visual-studio/ In our next example fragment – we will create a rule to collect Windows Performance data. Step 1: Download and extract the sample MP fragments. These are available here: https://github.com/thekevinholman/FragmentLibrary I will update these often…