SCOM has many different ways to monitor for a file size. Here are some simple examples using script and WMI monitor types. In this specific example – this will be a monitor to look for Windows Server Registry Bloat. The monitor will inspect the registry hives for the registry file…
This article is not just a warning about the Dell (Detailed) MP, but the danger of importing ANY management pack into your environment without fully understanding the intended scope, scalability, and any known/common issues. I recently worked with a customer who had an interesting issue. They had a very large…
There are many articles on tweaking certain registry settings for SCOM agents, Gateways, and Management servers, for many reasons. Large deployments, custom 3rd party MP’s, monitoring Exchange 2010 to name a few. Matt Goedtel has a good list on his blog: http://blogs.technet.com/b/mgoedtel/archive/2010/08/24/performance-optimizations-for-operations-manager-2007-r2.aspx Below – I’d like to post some…
It has been a well known requirement for most customers, to be able to Create Groups of Windows Computers that also contain corresponding Health Service Watcher objects. This was needed for Alert Notification subscriptions so that different teams could receive alert notifications filtered by groups, but also include alerts from…
In general, the *supported* method to add users and groups to user roles is using the console. This is article will demonstrate an alternative method, that might be needed in cases where security got totally messed up, our a critical admin group got deleted. The idea came from Michel Kamp’s…
A scenario might occur where a SQL outage exists, and then the management servers will not automatically connect to SQL again once it comes back up on the network. If you have experienced this you should consider applying this resolution. However – those registry locations have changed in OM 2012. …
This is going to be an example of making a two state monitor to check for the existence of a file on an agent managed server. If the file does not exist, we can run a recovery to copy the file there from a network location. The context of…
Had a customer asking about how to create a monitor that would count the number of files in a folder, and then run a script based recovery to take an action (restart a service) afterwards. This is not a complicated request, but probably a common scenario. There are lots of…
There will be times that we want to make changes to our agent configuration, and often times a script is the simplest way to do this on a large number of agents. Perhaps we want to add an additional management group to the agent, or enable/disable Active directory integration? The…
Resource Pools in SCOM 2012 are an advancement over SCOM 2007, where a resource pool can be used to host instances, that have targeted workflows, and make them highly available. This allowed the “All Management Servers Resource Pool” to host the instances that the RMS used to run in SCOM…