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SCOM 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...

Author: Jimmy Harper Date: 08/13/2016

PowerShell 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...

Author: Jimmy Harper Date: 12/15/2015

Management 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...

Author: Jimmy Harper Date: 09/02/2015

Exchange 2010 Correlation Engine Not Generating Alerts

While helping a customer migrate from SCOM 2007 to SCOM 2012 R2, we noticed a large reduction in...

Author: Jimmy Harper Date: 04/15/2015

Agent Version and Health report

A customer asked me to put together a SCOM data warehouse report that would list Agents from all...

Author: Jimmy Harper Date: 04/09/2015

Alerting 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...

Author: Jimmy Harper Date: 02/03/2015

Pre-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...

Author: Jimmy Harper Date: 10/30/2014

Alerting 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...

Author: Jimmy Harper Date: 10/28/2014

CPU/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...

Author: Jimmy Harper Date: 08/29/2014

Several Management Packs Updated, fix for MaxConcurrentAPI Monitor included

We recently released updated versions of several Management Packs, including the Windows Server OS...

Author: Jimmy Harper Date: 08/26/2014

Exporting and Importing User Roles and Notifications in SCOM 2007 and SCOM 2012

A customer of mine is migrating from SCOM 2007 to a new SCOM 2012 installation and would like to...

Author: Jimmy Harper Date: 12/12/2013

Get a list of email addresses used in SCOM notifications

I haven’t blogged in a while, so need to make sure this thing is still on :)  I’ll start with...

Author: Jimmy Harper Date: 12/12/2013

ACS “Event Count” reports

Here are a couple of ACS reports to show the event count by User, Forwarder, and Event ID. Just...

Author: J Harper Date: 04/18/2013

CU6 for OpsMgr 2007 R2 is now available

  CU6 for OpsMgr 2007 R2 is now available at...

Author: J Harper Date: 05/15/2012

Updated Active Directory Management Pack Released - version 6.0.7822.0

  We have just released and updated version of the Active Directory Management Pack (version...

Author: J Harper Date: 03/30/2012

Creating a Group of Windows Computer and Health Service Watcher Objects

There are a lot of great blogs out there that discuss creating various types of groups (Kevin Holman...

Author: J Harper Date: 03/20/2012

OpsMgr 2007 R2 Agent Installation Error with Microsoft.VC90.CRT

  I’ve seen this issue a couple of times now…an OpsMgr 2007 R2 Agent installation fails with...

Author: J Harper Date: 02/16/2012

ADMP – Workaround for Some Broken Win2k8 Rules

In a previous blog post, I provided an “Addendum” MP to fix some Rules that do not work...

Author: J Harper Date: 01/16/2012

Logical Disk Fragmentation Report

Here’s a simple custom report that shows the fragmentation of each logical disk based on the...

Author: J Harper Date: 08/25/2011

Workflow Failure Queries

  I regularly see customers getting a lot of alerts indicating that workflows have failed to...

Author: J Harper Date: 07/29/2011

Maintenance Mode Scheduling Tool

  The Operations Manager Product Team recently released an Administration Resource Kit for...

Author: J Harper Date: 07/14/2011

Unhealthy Monitors Report

I recently put together an “Unhealthy Monitors” report for an OpsMgr Administrator to...

Author: J Harper Date: 05/06/2011

Active Alerts Report

NOTE: This report uses the Operations Database instead of the Data Warehouse….in order for it...

Author: J Harper Date: 11/08/2010

Alert Count by Hour Report

Very simple report which shows the number of Alerts generated in each hour of a given...

Author: J Harper Date: 11/03/2010

ACS Database Dashboard Report

Here’s a little report that I put together to get a look at what is going on in the ACS...

Author: J Harper Date: 11/02/2010

Exchange 2007 Mailbox Count Report

The Exchange 2007 Management Pack for MOM 2005 included a Mailbox Count report which was not...

Author: J Harper Date: 10/20/2010

Group Membership Count Report

Here’s a quick little report to show the number of objects in each group. You have the option...

Author: J Harper Date: 10/15/2010

Exchange 2003 “Mailboxes” and “Database Sizes” Reports for OpsMgr 2007

The Exchange 2003 Management Pack for MOM 2005 contains a few reports that are not included in the...

Author: J Harper Date: 09/17/2010

Monitor State Report

OpsMgr Health Explorer allows you to look at the State of all Monitors for a specific object. But,...

Author: J Harper Date: 09/01/2010

ADMP for Windows Server 2008 – Alerts not generated for some Rules

  I recently found that many Event Log rules in the Active Directory Management Pack for...

Author: J Harper Date: 08/27/2010

Office update breaks "Company Knowledge" Editing

A recent Security Update for Word 2007 is breaking the ability to edit Company Knowledge in...

Author: J Harper Date: 08/27/2010

Powershell Commands to configure Gateway Server / Agent Failover

  UPDATE:  Some of these commands have been changed for OpsMgr 2012, so I’ve created...

Author: J Harper Date: 07/23/2010

ACS: EventSchema.xml changes for Server 2008 Account Lockout Events

Just realized that I haven’t blogged on this yet. By default, the “Calling...

Author: J Harper Date: 06/11/2010

Sample Queries and Reports from my MMS Session

Here are the reports and queries that I used in the demos of my “Writing Basic Custom Reports for...

Author: J Harper Date: 04/22/2010

Active Directory Management Pack: Journal Wrap alert Rule does not work

In the Active Directory Management Pack, there is a Rule named “A journal wrap error has occurred on...

Author: J Harper Date: 01/21/2010

Some Custom ACS Reports

Here are some ACS reports that I’ve written for various customers recently. If you have ACS...

Author: J Harper Date: 12/09/2009

Noisy DBCC Rule in the SQL Management Pack

The SQL Server Management Pack has a rule, targeted at SQL 2000/2005/2008 DB Engine named “DBCC...

Author: J Harper Date: 10/01/2009

Using Integers and other “non-string” data types in Rules and Monitors

If you need to use any non-string data type in the criteria for custom Rules and Monitors, you’ll...

Author: J Harper Date: 10/01/2009

Overrides view in R2

Here’s one of many good uses of the new Overrides view in OpsMgr 2007 R2.   I want to review...

Author: J Harper Date: 09/26/2009

Exchange 2007 Synthetic Transactions against clustered Mailbox Servers may stop working

Are you using the new Exchange 2007 Management Pack? Are you configuring the CAS and/or Mailflow...

Author: J Harper Date: 09/26/2009

Health Service problem on Windows 2000 Agent

I recently ran into an interesting issue with a customer.  A Windows 2000 Agent (running OpsMgr...

Author: J Harper Date: 08/25/2009

Service Monitors – What does the “State” value mean?

When you create a Service Monitor in OpsMgr 2007, we get an alert / state change when the service is...

Author: J Harper Date: 08/11/2009

SQL Server Full Text Search Service Monitor

This issue is described in the SQL Server Management Pack Guide, but I wanted to blog it since I’ve...

Author: J Harper Date: 07/02/2009

SQL Database Properties Not Discovered

I ran into an issue recently where some SQL Databases were not showing any properties in OpsMgr,...

Author: J Harper Date: 06/11/2009

SQL Agent Job Discovery not working?

The SQL Server Management Pack includes an option to discover and monitor SQL Server Agent Jobs for...

Author: J Harper Date: 06/04/2009

AD Trust Monitor doesn’t reset to Healthy State

The Active Directory Management Pack (ADMP) – version 6.0.6452.0 – contains a monitor named “AD...

Author: J Harper Date: 05/20/2009

Configuring or Disabling Replication Monitoring in the Active directory Management pack

The latest version of the Active Directory Management Pack (ADMP) – version 6.0.6452.0 – contains...

Author: J Harper Date: 05/20/2009

AEM Views and tables

I'll soon be putting together some AEM (Agentless Exception Monitoring) reports, so I figured I'd...

Author: J Harper Date: 02/20/2009

No Alert from SQL MP when clustered services go down

I recently ran into the following issue: The SQL Server Management Pack has several monitors to...

Author: J Harper Date: 02/20/2009

ACS report: All events for specified user (even more than the built-in version)

A customer recently showed me that the built-in ACS report...

Author: J Harper Date: 02/15/2009

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