This is probably the single biggest issue I find in 100% of customer environments. Year ago, I wrote about this issue, where the SCOM agent in some cases can consume above typical resource levels of memory, handles, etc. When this occurs – we will restart the agent to kill any…
I recently wrote about the Windows Server Operating System Management pack version 6.0.6989.0 HERE. In the “known issues” section of that article – I discussed that the MP is solid – except there are no performance collection rules for cluster disks, such as latency, or free space, to leverage in your…
Setting up notifications for email, IM, or command channels is almost identical to how this was configured in OpsMgr 2007 R2. This article will just serve as a walk through to the process, such as immediately after deploying OpsMgr 2012. The key difference here is that Notifications are now managed…
OpsMgr has the capability to run a synthetic transaction, to query a remote database from a watcher node. This can be used to simulate an application query to a back end database, and we have built in monitoring to set thresholds for: Connection time Query time Fetch Time We will…
Microsoft started including Unix and Linux monitoring in OpsMgr directly in OpsMgr 2007 R2, which shipped in 2009. Some significant updates have been made to this for OpsMgr 2012. Primarily these updates are around: Highly available Monitoring via Resource Pools Sudo elevation support for using a low priv account with…
This is a pretty common request, and I have been meaning to write up an example of this. Suppose you have the following scenario: You are monitoring 1000 Windows Server with OpsMgr. In your management group, you have 100 servers that are Test/Dev machines, and you have 900 that are…
The concept of this article is to give you a general overview of the security model, and rights required, to deploy and operate System Center Operations Manager. For each section, I will link to more detailed documents and articles. What do I need to know? When I have…
SPN’s (Service Principal Names) settings are very similar in OpsMgr 2012 as they were in OpsMgr 2007. However, since the SDK (Data Access) service runs on ALL management servers now… the SPN’s for the SDK (DAS) account will be different now. If you deploy OpsMgr using a standard domain user…
This article is deprecated, and has been replaced with an updated article using the latest SCOM Management packs. Please see: https://kevinholman.com/2020/03/15/monitoring-sql-agent-jobs-in-scom/ I will cover three conceptual areas: Out of the box experience and defaults SQL Agent only monitoring (monitoring all jobs at the agent level) SQL Agent…
Anyone who works with events in the Windows Event log can benefit from this. When creating management packs, or adding monitoring for specific events, it is very helpful to have tools to test fire these events. In the past, we would use built in tools like EventCreate. However, these have limitations in…