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New SCOM 2016 Video – Post Installation Configuration
Another video for you guys, this one talks about what configuration changes I like to do after SCOM is installed. Things like setting the Service Principle Names (SPN’s), sizing the databases and memory, compressing backups and setting the Maximum Degree of Parallelism for SQL Server. In addition we review heartbeat settings and set manually installed […]
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SCOM 2016 Training Videos
Something I am very passionate about is both monitoring using SCOM (Systems Center Operations Manager) and sharing knowledge…so with that in mind I am starting to produce some SCOM 2016 Training Videos that I hope will grow to be unlike any other […]
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Retrieve all Open SCOM Alerts from the Operations Manager SQL Database (SQL Query)
How can we get a list of all Open SCOM Alerts from the Operations Manager Database using a SQL Query? Well there are simpler queries, but this is the query I like to use because it adds a lot more information to the output…
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Update Rollup 1 for System Center 2016 Operations Manager now available
SCOM 2016 has scarcely been released and we’re already seeing UR1 available. You can get it here: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3190029 It weighs in at a little over 300Mb in total and whilst the page doesn’t exactly say what fixes it provides…I’d wager it has something to do with this patch which is designed to fix a bug in recently […]
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SCOM 2016 – The EXECUTE permission was denied on the object ‘sp_help_jobactivity’, database ‘msdb’, schema ‘dbo’
So I’ve just installed SCOM 2016 in my lab (well actually I’ve probably done it over a dozen times this weekend testing out scripts etc) and my Management Server suddenly popped up this message (after selecting the new Maintenance Schedules in the SCOM Console). Date: 10/15/2016 8:39:18 PM Application: Operations Manager Application Version: 7.2.11719.0 […]
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SCOM 2016 has been released on MSDN
So if you’re a MSDN Subscriber, head there now and enjoy 🙂
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Restarting the SCOM Services
I was asked today about restarting the SCOM Services…what order should they be stopped and started? Well there’s clearly a few different opinions on this if you do a quick Google Search, but my preferred order is following the order in which they start up when you install SCOM…and that order is as follows:
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Deleting a Specific Category of Rules from a SCOM 2012/2016 Management Pack
Ever wanted to delete a specific category of rule from a SCOM Management Pack? For example you might want to delete all alerting rules or disable performance collection rules, or maybe event collection rules. Whatever your desire, yes it can be done. Let me show you how! WARNING: This code will delete all Monitors/Rules from your […]
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Deleting all Monitors or Rules from a SCOM 2012/2016 Management Pack
I’ve written a few posts now about disabling Monitors and Rules in a Management Pack…but what if you want to actually delete them? We can use PowerShell for that too. So if you have an unsealed MP and you want to delete monitors, rules or even discoveries we can use the following code… WARNING: This […]
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Disabling a Specific Category of Rules in a SCOM 2012/2016 Management Pack
Recently I wrote up a post about disabling Rules (and followed that up with Monitors and Discoveries)…but I was asked if it’s possible to only disable a specific category of rules. For example you might want to disable all alerting rules or disable performance collection rules, or maybe event collection rules. Whatever your desire, yes […]