Below you will find a security account matrix for SCOM 2019, that includes all the common service and security accounts in SCOM, and their default or recommended permissions. This includes the management servers, the database servers, SQL Role permissions, and database mappings. You can use this to correct deployments where…
QuickDownload: https://github.com/thekevinholman/IBMMQMP This is a Management Pack that will discover and monitor IBM MQ / IBM WebSphere MQ servers on Windows. Discovers and monitors: MQ Server (Service Running) Queue Managers (Status) Queues (Status, Queue Depth, Queue Percent Used, IPROCS, OPROCS) Listeners (Status, Sessions) Channels (Status) This is loosely based on…
Quick Download: https://github.com/thekevinholman/AzureVMMP This is a SCOM MP that will discover if your VM is running in Azure, and if so, pull back some interesting and useful properties for grouping, if needed. You can create SCOM groups based on Azure location, resource group, tags, subscription, etc. You can read more…
This is a common issue…. you have a SCOM environment with a LOT of old Management Packs, and you would like to clean it out, but how do you know which MP’s aren’t being used anymore? The BEST practice is to ensure every MP has a representative owner in your…
This is a very common request. Perhaps you have an application that you discover and monitor, and the application owner wants specific overrides for the disks related to that application. Initially, this seems really hard, because there is no direct relationship between an application on a server, and disks on…
I have had to use this a few times for customers so I thought I might publish it. Comes in handy when managing alerts from cluster objects and associating them with a physical node, or when extending computer properties. # Get Virtual Servers Array $VirtualServers = Get-SCOMClass -name ‘Microsoft.Windows.Cluster.VirtualServer’…
This is a script example I did a demo on recently. It is designed to help you keep up with agents that are not communicating with SCOM, fix them, or help you categorize them into groups for troubleshooting. I was working with a customer that has a very large environment,…
The recordings are available from the May 2020 Silect MPU. Here is my session and links to all the sessions are below. 1. SCOM and MP Updates – In this session, Microsoft Product Group is going to talk about updates in SCOM and Management Packs. Updates such as Update Rollups…
As many customers prepare to move to SCOM 2019, one thing I have been hearing is how many customers are still on SCOM 2012R2. There is no direct in-place upgrade path from SCOM 2012R2 to SCOM 2019. You have to upgrade 2012R2 > 2016 > 2019. Many years ago I…
At the time of this writing, the last Windows Server Remote Access Management pack released by Microsoft was for Windows Server 2012R2. Customers need to monitor their VPN solutions deployed using the Windows Server Remote Access role on Windows Server 2016 and 2019. This MP will discover and monitor all…