SCOM tricks and tips that save time: PowerShell scripts, overrides, groups, monitors, alerts and console shortcuts, tested in real customer environments.
This is a post in continuation of my previous post on the topic of upgrading a SCOM 2012 SP1 to a SCOM 2012 R2, which went wrong and how I was fixing it. After fixing the SCOM instance everything seemed alright for half a day. The very next morning we h…
A few weeks ago I did an upgrade of SCOM 2012 SP1 UR6 to SCOM 2012 R2 (and later to UR3) for a customer. Of course they have a test environment with SCOM in it and I went through the whole process and everything looked fine there. Next I was allowed to…
Often after updates of SCOM 2012 / 2012 R2 or after a clean install people go to the SCOM Web Console and they get the following notification:
Web Console Configuration Required.
A user can click the configure button and run the executable and…
I often get questions for getting SQL info together, such as names, instances, versions, editions and so on for all kinds of purposes. Sometimes as inventory, sometimes to find instances no longer supported, rogue instances, needed for licensing info an…
Because a customer needed an export of all network devices currently in monitoring and the list was a bit long I decided to use PowerShell for this purpose. However I regularly see questions about retrieving also agents and Linux agents and network devi…
A while back my good friend Marnix Wolf wrote about a list of things you must not forget when adding an additional management server to a SCOM management group. Of course we can all imagine to install SCOM on that server and update it to the same Update…
Had an issue the other day with an already installed and configured agent refusing to start.
When trying to start the service through command prompt I got this error:
C:\>net start healthservice
The System Center Management service is starting.…
Microsoft released a KB article containing a fix for one of the following cases:
In System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 environments you may see the following:
The Data warehouse size grows, and upon investigation you discover that partitions a…
A few weeks ago I posted an article about some of my lessons learned for SCOM 2012 SP1 command line installations. It contained a very long Lesson 4 talking about creation and placement and naming of mostly the Datawarehouse database. I discussed the di…
For one of my customers I have been fooling around with a clean SCOM 2012 SP1 install through command line. I ran into some issues and workarounds that you might want to be aware of. There are probably more to come, but I thought it better to post this…