Information Technology, and other interesting things …
a few days ago my boss liked to see a list of all our computers with the warranty informations like purchase date and warranty end date. So i wrote this little vbscript, witch collect the information from the manufacturers webpage (in our case HP, Dell and Maxdata) and write it to a MIF file. Please … Read More “Collect warranty informations with SCCM” »
Sometimes you need a SCOM monitor which was calculated from one or more SNMP values. Maybe the values have to be calculated, cause the value is in an unhandy format or unit. In this example i will monitor the input frequency for an for an UPS. The originaly readed value is in 1/10 Hz, but … Read More “Create a calculated SNMP monitor” »
I have created a few subscribers and they work perfectly, but there is one problem. If you define a schedule exception, you wouldn’t receive a notification at the defined weekdays. In my example i have a subscriber which should receive alert notifications only outside the business hours (monday to friday, 07:00 – 16:00). My first … Read More “schedule subscriber notifications with exception” »
Sometimes you need a SCOM Rule which was calculated from one or more SNMP values. Maybe the values have to be calculated, cause the value is in an unhandy format or unit. In this example i will create a Rule and a Performance View to show the autonomny time for an APC UPS. The originaly … Read More “Create a calculated SNMP Rule in SCOM” »
Did you ever need to know, to wich network switch a computer is connected? When you are a system administrator in a large company with tousends of users, this can be difficult. But when you use SCCM for OS or Software deployment, you have a good inventory tool integreated. Unfortunately SCCM by default only collect … Read More “Collect CDP informations with SCCM” »
When you manualy edit a monitor or rule in the SCOM Authorin Console, maybee you have to edit the field @VariantType. The VariantType describes the type of the value that is returned. The variant types are: Empty = 0 Null = 1 Short = 2 Integer = 3 Single = 4 Double = 5 Currency … Read More “VariantTypes” »
When you update your SCOM 2007 R2 to CU4 (Cumulative Update 4), you will have problems to load a management pack with SCOM Authoring Console. You will receive a message, searching for management pack Microsoft.SystemCenter.Library with Version 6.1.7221.61: Unfortunately you will found only version 6.1.7221.0 on your disk. Microsoft didn’t published the newer version as … Read More “Problem with SCOM Authoring Console after CU4” »
When you create an SNMP monitor in SCOM 2007 R2, SCOM assumes that the values are in STRING-format. So if you define, that your monitor should check an SNMP-OID to be greather than 70 and the SNMP OID gives a value of 100 back, your monitor will generate an error. To correct this, you have … Read More “Change string value to integer in a SNMP monitor” »
To monitor SNMP devices with SCOM 2007 R2 is a litle special, as i know other products witch are more easy for monitoring SNMP devices. But SCOM has some good feature and if you have SCOM, you don’t want to have another tool only for monitoring SNMP devices. Here is an overview for monitoring one … Read More “Monitor a SNMP device with Microsoft SCOM 2007 R2” »