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SCOM 2012 – Monitoring Oracle Database OLE DB Management Pack Template
As you know there are different ways to achieve certain things. It always depends on your requirements. In my latest blog post I would like to show how relatively easy it is to monitor an OLE DB...
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Orchestrator – Use Powershell (only) to Trigger Runbooks
Today I needed a solution which I could trigger a runbook using Powershell only. I found a very flexible and extendable solution on Codeplex. This solution provides a Powershell module which you load...
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SCOM 2012 – Import Multiple Management Packs (Import-SCOMManagementPack)
There are maybe certain situation where you need to import multiple management packs using the “Import-SCOMManagementPack” command. How do you accomplish that? It is easy! Because the command is taking...
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SCOM 2012 – SCOM Task Collection MP V 1.0
Update 07.03.2013: There is an updated version of this management pack and post. Please check the post found here. As the new year just started every one has many New Year’s resolutions, one of mine...
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Quick Post – Get “Register this connection’s addresses in DNS” Setting Quickly
Today I had an urgent requirement to get from a selected part of servers the network setting “Register this connection’s addresses in DNS”. The reason was, that some server didn’t register their...
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Orchestrator 2012 SP1 – PowerShell 3.0, Run .Net Activity and Get-SCXAgent
New things are not always good things or at least old habits change. I had been working on some runbooks in Orchestrator 2012 SP1 and needed to run PowerShell 3.0 and the .Net Activity. I installed...
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SCOM 2012 – Server Boot Check and Availability HTML Report (PowerShell Script)
As there are many good ideas out there and so many bright minds, you just have to pull all this energy together mix it with your own ideas and you will create wonderful things. A practical example...
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SCOM 2012 – Install SCOM PowerShell Modules Without SCOM Console Installation
Yes we all know less is sometimes more. This saying does not only belong to the human bodyweight, nope, since the Windows Server Core area we all know less “*.dll” is better. Like this saying, a few...
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SCOM 2012 – Getting SCOM SNMP Device Properties in PowerShell
Have you ever tried to access a network device respectively network device properties in SCOM using PowerShell? Let’s say you want to access the network device’s IP address, vendor or description for...
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MMS 2013 Download Sessions – Offline Viewing
Last year I published a PowerShell script to download the MMS sessions. It has been such a great success that I got a lot of nice responses. Therefore I made just small changes and it will work for the...
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PowerShell – JSON-RPC 2.0 Interaction Connecting SCOM
SCOM is the best monitoring system on this planet but there are also other systems around. You might find yourself in a situation where you need to get some information from the other monitoring system...
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Quick Post – Import-SCOMManagementPack : The requested management pack is not...
I have seen in the forum there are some difficulties using the Import-SCOMManagementPack cmdlet for SCOM 2012. Some time ago I wrote a post about how to import multiple MPs using...
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SCOM 2012 R2 – New PowerShell Cmdlets
I like to play around with PowerShell and I am always looking for new cmdlets Microsoft creates for us. Isn’t it like getting Christmas gifts all the time ? Today I wanted to find out if there are any...
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PowerShell 4.0 – Checking SCOM Required Ports
If you are going to install SCOM there are requirements which you have to be aware of. Microsoft has a great article on TechNet which describes precisely what the requirement and supported...
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SCOM 2012 – Comparing Deployed Agents vs. Active Directory Computer Objects...
It has been a moment since my last post, but I assume you know how everything goes crazy before Christmas. This time I would like to share a script which is very useful while implementing SCOM. When...
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SCOM 2012 – Get Alerts From SCOM Group Showing Alert Source Information...
Well I don’t know why, but I got stuck again to PowerShell. It seams that this language solves many problems in a SCOM operator’s daily work. I had recently the need for having enriched alert...
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SCOM 2012 R2 – PowerShell To Determine Agent Required Disk Space
Do you use any of the System Center products which use an agent? SCOM is one of these products which needs to have an agent installed on the monitored systems. But do you know how much space an agent...
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MMS 2012 Download Sessions – Offline Viewing
Here I just created a script to download the MMS 2012 sessions for offline viewing . There are few things you will need: Create a login account here http://www.mms-2012.com/digitalmms Get the script...
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Reset Monitor using SCOM 2012 and Orchestrator – A must have Runbook
There is at least one Runbook each SCOM responsible must have. Are you wondering which? Well, I am sure you are always aware of what kind of alert you are closing. Is this alert beeing generated by a...
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SCOM 2012 / Orchestrator – Monitor for New Knowledge Base Article
Have you ever wanted being notified about new Operations Manager KB article? Your answer will be yes I already have RSS-Reader and stuff like that. But is that cool? Is that the geeky way to do things?...
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