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Perhaps you have a special group of servers that are on poorly connected network segments, but most of your servers are in datacenters. You may want to set the default heartbeat interval higher for these specific agents, so they are less likely to create heartbeat failures. You can do this…
I had an interesting customer request recently – to monitor for a specific system file, and make SURE it is not a modified/threat file. You can use this as a simple example of a two-state timed script monitor (using vbscript) which demonstrates script arguments, logging, alerting, propertybag outputs, etc.…
Prior to SCOM 2012 R2 UR7, we had an issue where we did not groom out old data from the Event Parameter and Event Rule tables in the DW. This will show up as these tables growing quite large, especially the event parameter tables. They will never groom…
While there is built in monitoring for network devices in SCOM – there are scenarios where we want to create custom classes for specific network device types. Perhaps you want to create your own SNMP based polling monitors, and run them against specific network device types, such as a…
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…