Month: March 2019

First published on TECHNET on Aug 13, 2016

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 fro… Continue reading SCOM Task to Add or Remove Management Groups on Agents→

First published on TECHNET on Dec 15, 2015

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… Continue reading PowerShell Command to Approve SCOM Agents Listed in a Text File→

First published on TECHNET on Sep 02, 2015

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 HealthServic… Continue reading Management Pack to Monitor and Reduce Health Service Store Size→

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First published on TECHNET on Apr 15, 2015

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 ge… Continue reading Exchange 2010 Correlation Engine Not Generating Alerts→

First published on TECHNET on Apr 09, 2015

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 … Continue reading Agent Version and Health report→

First published on TECHNET on Feb 03, 2015

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 ri… Continue reading Alerting when performance counters cannot be resolved by SCOM→

First published on TECHNET on Oct 28, 2014

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 fo… Continue reading Alerting on Deadlocks with the SQL Server Management Pack→