I had a question today about uninstalling an agent using the command line.  The options referenced here are great for installing, configuring and modifying an agent and all possible options.  Here are some additional notes that may come in handy...

UPDATE: Monitoring the operational database grooming procedure is now included in the SCOM management pack since version 6.1.7672.0. I will keep this post up as an example of how to create a monitor based on a script that queries a database. Often...

UPDATE: Monitoring the operational database grooming procedure is now included in the SCOM management pack since version 6.1.7672.0. I will keep this post up as an example of how to create a monitor based on a script that queries a database. Okay,...

Return state of a group foreach($a in get-monitoringobjectgroup){if($a.DisplayName -eq " group name "){$a.HealthState}} Return contained instances of a group and state of each instance foreach ($group in get-monitoringobjectGroup) {if($group...

/* Return Health Service instances hosting one or more instances contained in system.group */ USE OperationsManagerDW SELECT vManagedEntity.DisplayName AS Computer FROM  vManagedEntity INNER JOIN               ...

Thanks to Daniel Savage for helping with this one. /* Get all groups from Data Warehouse */ USE OperationsManagerDW SELECT DISTINCT DisplayName FROM  vManagedEntity WHERE (ManagedEntityTypeRowId IN                   ...

A few months ago, after re-installing my workstation operating system and getting all my applications and tools loaded, I fire up Operations Manager Command Shell.  Since I use the tab expansion function frequently, I noticed immediately that for...

This was initially published by Kevin , and Steve added row count.  I just changed the column names and posted it here for easy access to customers I work with.  Anytime I engage in a tuning effort or a case where there are database issues,...

Every day I have a number of fleeting thoughts that I hope every Operations Manager administrator knows.  With all the emerging blogs about Operations Manager over the past year offering up a wealth of knowledge, sometimes I assume the majority of...