Recently, Microsoft posted a security vulnerability around SCOM 2019 agents: https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/en-US/vulnerability/CVE-2021-1728 Subsequently, we released a KB article about it: KB4601269 Let me give a little background data on it. This vulnerability is that in SCOM 2019 agents, by default the Network Service account has a high level of privilege…
We released an updated Active Directory Management Pack back in 2016, and have made updates along the way. The current release supports Domain Controllers running Windows 2012, 2012R2, 2016, and later. One of the items that many people configure, is to only discover Domain Controllers that have an AGENT on…
This is a planning checklist that will help you determine if an in-place upgrade is possible, and how to prepare the environment in advance for it. It is similar to my previous post on Upgrading SCOM 2012R2 to SCOM 2016. 1. Verify we are moving from a supported…
KB Article for OpsMgr: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4580254/update-rollup-10-for-system-center-2016-operations-manager Download catalog site: http://www.catalog.update.microsoft.com/Search.aspx?q=4580254 Updated UNIX/Linux Management Packs: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=29696 Recommended hotfix page: https://kevinholman.com/2009/01/27/which-scom-hotfixes-should-i-apply/ Key fixes: The cmdlet Export-SCOMEffectiveMonitoringConfiguration has been fixed to give a correct summary of the applicable monitors, rules and overrides on an object. VB scripts for partition and grooming, calculate operations manager…
This is a new MP which will discover and monitor the MSMQ feature on Windows Server 2012 and later versions of the OS. Quick Download: https://github.com/thekevinholman/MSMQ Microsoft’s MSMQ MP’s don’t really work. Each release is a copy of the previous release, and are antiquated with disabled Self-tuning baseline monitors (because…
There are several default settings in the SCOM Web Console, that are done to increase the speed and performance of the Web Console. There are times, however, where you might want to change these. One of the most common complaints, is that the Web Console doesn’t show the same Alerts…
As customers move more and more to Office 365, the importance of monitoring Exchange Queues can potentially increase, to quickly detect connectivity issues between On-Prem and the Cloud. This article discusses a Management Pack add-on for Exchange 2013, 2016, and 2019 that will give you a visual dashboard of your…
I have released a management pack which will monitor SQL Mirroring on SQL 2012, 2014, 2016, 2017, and 2019. Quick download: https://github.com/thekevinholman/Microsoft.SQLServer.Windows.Mirroring SQL mirroring has been deprecated, in favor of using Always On. However, as customers migrated to the SQL Server Version Agnostic Management pack for monitoring SQL DB engines,…
Ok, this is not really simple. This article is about some more complex MP Authoring modules…. reader beware. Sometimes when authoring MP’s, you want to take a value and change it using math. Possibly dividing by 1000 to change KB to MB, or multiplying times 100 to make a fraction…
KB Article for OpsMgr New Features Download from Catalog Download for the NEW Simplified Management Server Update Download Updated UNIX/Linux Management Packs Recommended hotfix page New Features: Change tracking for management packs Improvements in scheduled maintenance mode Favorite reports in web console Support for folders in monitoring view of web…