Several Management Packs Updated, fix for MaxConcurrentAPI Monitor included
We recently released updated versions of several Management Packs, including the Windows Server OS MP. Below are links to the updated MPs and the fixes that I am aware of: Windows Server Operating...
View ArticleCPU/Memory Monitors – Include Top Processes in Alert Description
Here is a Management Pack that I wrote for a customer a while back. The requirement was to take the alerting for CPU Utilization and Available Memory from the Windows Server Management Pack and add...
View ArticleAlerting on Deadlocks with the SQL Server Management Pack
Today a customer asked me how to configure SCOM to generate Alerts for SQL Deadlocks. Looking in the SQL Server Management Pack, I found that we have event log Rules for deadlocks for SQL 2005, 2008,...
View ArticlePre-reqs for SCOM 2012 Consoles
Whenever I’m installing SCOM 2012, it takes me a little extra time to get the pre-reqs installed for the Operations Console and Web Console, so I’m adding this to my blog for an easy place to find the...
View ArticleAlerting when performance counters cannot be resolved by SCOM
A customer of mine is seeing some random issues with SCOM not being able to resolve Exchange performance counters and would like to get an alert when this happens so we can troubleshoot right away....
View ArticleAgent Version and Health report
A customer asked me to put together a SCOM data warehouse report that would list Agents from all Management Groups, and some general Agent version and health information. The report I put together is...
View ArticleExchange 2010 Correlation Engine Not Generating Alerts
While helping a customer migrate from SCOM 2007 to SCOM 2012 R2, we noticed a large reduction in Alerts for Exchange 2010. After investigating further, we noticed that we were not getting any Alerts...
View ArticleManagement Pack to Monitor and Reduce Health Service Store Size
A customer of mine monitors some agents that only have 1gb of storage, so disk space must be conserved as much as possible. The Health Service store file (a JET database named HealthServiceStore.edb)...
View ArticlePowerShell Command to Approve SCOM Agents Listed in a Text File
My customer has a lot of manually installed SCOM Agents that have not yet been approved in the console, and wanted a quick way to approve only the ones that are listed in a text file. The following...
View ArticleSCOM Task to Add or Remove Management Groups on Agents
A customer of mine found that they had numerous SCOM Agents which were multi-homed to defunct Management Groups, and they were looking for an easy way to remove these old Management Groups from the...
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