Information Technology, and other interesting things …
this days, I updated Service Management Automation (SMA) in our production environment from version 2016 UR7 to version 2019. after the update, I had an issue with Windows Azure Pack, which couldn’t display the dashboard for the Automation provider. after some research, i found out, that the root cause was some months earlier. we have … Read More “Windows Azure Pack doesn’t show Automation dashboard after updating SMA” »
The Invoke-CMScript cmdlet invokes a PowerShell script in Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager. System Center Configuration Manager has an integrated ability to run Powershell scripts. The scripts simplify building custom tools to administer software and let you accomplish mundane tasks quickly, allowing you to get large jobs done more easily and more consistently. For more information, see Create … Read More “pass parameter values to Invoke-CMScript” »
i like System Center Dataprotection Manager, especially for the backup possibilites of remote Windows servers and the Online backup to Azure. But in my past, i lost the overview about succeded and failed backup jobs. The included reporting doesn’t helped me enough, and the alert notification was like spam. I needed a daily report with one … Read More “daily Backup Report for SC DPM” »
This is quite huge for me, because I’ve been working on this script for the last two months and finally decided, to release the script to public, although I know that it’s still far from complete. Document your Operations Manager 2012 environment You should know your environment and what happens in it and you should be … Read More “document your SCOM 2012 environment” »
If you demote a Domain Controller, SCOM will generate a lot of alerts. By design, there is no automatically undiscovery for the Rules and Monitores for the Active Directory Roles. Solution 1 This solution will remove all disabled Class instances from an existing object. it will not change any other properties of the object. Open … Read More “demoted Domain Controller still present in SCOM” »
Today I needed some additional fields for the Active Directory User class for an SCSM Service Offering. For example, I need the PrimarySmtpAddress, which exists in the AD as mail, but not in the SCSM class. in this post, I will describe, how I did it: We will need: System Center Service Manager 2012 SP1 … Read More “extend the Active Directory Users class for SCSM” »
after renaming a Active Directory computer, the computer was automatically detected in SCOM with the correct new name. but after short time, I detected, that the originally agent was already there, but not reachable. so I deleted the old computer under Device Management – Agent Managed. normally after maximum 3 days, the agent isn’t visible … Read More “delete orphaned computers from SCOM” »
This week I created a DashBoard for SCOM in Visio to present it on a SharePoint site. Normally you could use the Visio 2010 Addin for SystemCenter – Operations Manager. But this addin has some special prerequisites for the presentation on the SharePoint site, like installing SCOM components and special configurations on the SharePoint Farm. … Read More “Create SCOM Dashboard for SharePoint in Visio” »
This days, I had a very special problem with some new SCOM agents. I installed some new servers and installed the SCOM 2012 agent on it. But after some time, they appeared in the Agent Managed view, still as not monitored. first I looked up the event logs on the new servers and found this … Read More “SCOM 2012 agent communication issue” »
In the last time i have a lot to do with creating and testing SNMP monitors in our monitoring system. Rather than being surprised when a SNMP monitor doesn’t work correctly, i would like to test my newly created monitors against a SNMP simulation tool. So i was looking for an SNMP simulating tool. But … Read More “new SNMP simulation tool” »