A few days ago I was in need to export all my SCOM subscriptions and be able to analyze them thoroughly. So I researched for a script/solution online but didn’t find anything particularly useful to my exact requirement. So I decided to write one myself! I wrote a quick version of the script to get
This is one widely known “inconvenience” with working with Powershell to manage your subscriptions in a big SCOM environment. Consider the following widely common scenario: You have a SCOM environment with a fairly large number of subscriptions. You have a planned maintenance scheduled, and so you plan to disable all your subscriptions so that the
This is a question that I often get asked by the customers I work with and apparently a lot of others as evident by the related questions on the forums. One way of doing it is to author your own service monitor, but that involves considerable amount of knowledge and experience of management packs and
Ruben is back with another awesome blog post, and I have no doubt this one is going to help a lot of people! We all know the hassles of migrating your SCOM from one version to another, and it involves a lot of manual efforts. And especially so when you choose the side-by-side upgrade path.
We discussed about the common misconceptions regarding failover for Windows agents in SCOM in the previous post (part 1). In this part, as promised, Stoyan Chalakov is going to be discussing about the failover for Linux machines monitored by SCOM. Here goes: Linux/UNIX agent failover and Resource Pools – debunking the myth – Part 2
This is another of the hot topics I find with differences in opinion among the experts. The other one we discussed was Windows Agents and Failover – Debunking the Myth! Should you enable autogrowth on SCOM Operational Database? I did some some research online and consulted some of the best SCOM experts I know and put
I am a regular visitor/contributor to the SCOM Technet Forums and regularly meet many experts from around the globe there. Fortunately for me I eventually became friends/acquaintances with many of them. One of them is Cyril! If you have posted a question in the forums, you may very well have received the solution from a “CyrAz”, that’s
Summary: This post describes how to create PowerShell SCOM Console Tasks in XML along three examples. Introduction: Console Tasks are executed on the SCOM Management Server. Three examples show how to create them using Visual Studio. Task 1: Displaying a Management Server’s Last-Boot-Time [DisplayLastBootTime] Executes a PowerShell script which displays the result in a MessageBox
A few days ago, I needed to find out how many users are connecting to SCOM daily/weekly and how long was each user connected. Out-of-the-box SCOM does not provide you a way of doing this. So I started looking around for some hints. I came across this article, which looked pretty convincing. https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/dirkbri/2014/10/15/an-approach-of-collecting-and-analyzing-scom-2012-sdk-connections/ This looked
I have seen this issue happening a number of times now. The cause of this can be a few things going wrong, but as part of the troubleshooting I’ve noticed a way that works almost every time, if it applies. Problem : All of the sudden, the management server(s) greys out. You check the services,
