If you use SCOM’s Agentless Exception Monitoring, to examine application crash data and report on it…. one of the artifacts of SCOM is that this data never grooms out of the SCOM Operational Database. One of the things you can do is to disable all of the monitors that ship…
Quickdownload: https://github.com/thekevinholman/Microsoft.SystemCenter.ACS.Addendum I was working with a customer recently, and I realized that our MP’s to work with Audit Collection Forwarders could use a little help. The default view for the “forwarder” discovers instances where the ACS Forwarder service is set to automatic, but it does some “bad” things like…
I wrote a post explaining Run As accounts a while back here: https://kevinholman.com/2010/09/08/configuring-run-as-accounts-and-profiles-in-opsmgr-a-sql-management-pack-example/ One of the biggest pain points in distributing RunAs accounts, is managing the Health Service distribution of the credential. When you associate a RunAs profile to an account, this tells agents that are covered by the association,…
Disclaimer: Dynamic data in the Alert Name is not supported by Microsoft nor the Product Group. This post is to show what is possible, and the potential drawbacks. Regardless, like many customizations possible in SCOM, it does not mean they are supported or recommended by Microsoft. Additionally, this will not…
There are several really good blogs out there which document some of the struggles and workarounds with getting SNMP TRAP monitoring to work. I’ll reference some of them at the bottom, but this will be mine to document what worked, what didn’t, and some MP authoring examples that don’t exist…
One of the built in Monitor types in the SCOM Console, is a repeated event detection monitor. This is a cool way of creating an alert when we want to know when multiple similar events are recorded in a specified time frame. This is helpful for applications that might log…
This post will be a simple walk through on how to create a class for an application, discover instances of that class, and then monitor a service associated with that application: First – make sure you have the latest version of MP Author from Silect: https://www.silect.com/mp-author/ Open up MP author,…
UPDATE 8/15/2018 – The transform tool is no longer available, however a simpler version of this tool from Tim McFadden is: Quick Download: https://github.com/timmcfadden/SCOM-Transform-Tool/releases/download/1/Transform.zip I wrote about basic discovery script troubleshooting here: https://kevinholman.com/2010/03/09/basic-troubleshooting-of-scom-discovery-scripts/ One of the pains when needing to troubleshoot a Discovery script, is getting the script extracted from…
Was working with a customer on this issue: The agent would install correctly, it would even push install (but took forever) or a manual installation would make it show up in pending, but after approval, it would never communicate with a management server. The logs on the management server didn’t…
Q: How can I tell which monitored servers are a VM or a Physical Machine, including VMWare virtual machines? A: We need to disable a discovery, and add a new customized one in a management pack to accomplish this: Quick Download: https://github.com/thekevinholman/SCOM-Virtual-Machine-Discovery-Management-Pack There is a property of the…