My thoughts on Monitoring

How to Enable Agent Proxying for All Agents in a SCOM 2016 Environment

How can you enable agent proxying for all agents in a SCOM 2016 environment? If you already have your agents installed, you can run the following PowerShell to change them all at once: # Change the Proxying Settings via PowerShell Get-SCOMAgent | where {$_.ProxyingEnabled.Value -eq $False} | Enable-SCOMAgentProxy

September 14, 2016
Creating a SCOM 2016 Maintenance Schedule (and Conflicting Maintenance Schedules)

One of the hotly anticipated features of SCOM 2016 is the new Maintenance Mode updates, or more specifically…Maintenance Schedules as they are known…the ability schedule a maintenance in the future! Prior to SCOM 2016 we had to contend with doing it manually, or scripting up a solution and triggering that via a scheduled task. In the […]

September 12, 2016
List all Management Packs in SCOM 2016

If you’d like to see a list of Management Packs you have installed on SCOM 2016 you have a few options. Use the Operations Console In SCOM 2016 the Management Pack list can be found under “Administration” then “Installed Management Packs” and you’ll see all of the Management Packs you have installed.

September 10, 2016
Update Rollup 11 for SCOM 2012 R2 is available

If you weren’t aware, update rollup 11 (UR11) is available for download. You can find that here: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3183990.

September 7, 2016
Listing all Linux/Unix Agents in SCOM 2016 (and handling those Square Brackets)

It’s pretty easy to get a list of Windows Agents in SCOM…but Linux and Unix? Well we have a few options at our disposal. Option 1: Use the Get-SCXAgent Cmdlet This is certainly the simplest way to go, but there are other options that give you back more information. But if it’s a simple list […]

September 4, 2016
Finding Discovered Inventory with SCOM (2007, 2012 and 2016)

Whilst we can find out what SCOM has discovered quite easily from the Operations Manager Console, sometimes you want to export this information or simply use powershell or a script. So let’s find out how many Servers are running a Windows 2008, IIS WebServer. So the first thing I needed to do is find out […]

September 1, 2016
Turn off Agent Proxying in SCOM 2016

A while back I wrote a post about turning on agent proxying… you can find that here, but if you need to turn off Agent Proxying you can use the following Windows PowerShell: $Agents = get-agent | where {$_.ProxyingEnabled -match “True”} $Agents | foreach {$_.ProxyingEnabled=$false} $Agents | foreach {$_.ApplyChanges()} This turns it off for all […]

August 26, 2016
SCOM 2016 Daily Check PowerShell Script & HTML Report 2.0 v1.2

For those of you that have downloaded and use my SCOM 2012 Daily Health Check Script, I thank you for your support and your terrific feedback. Today I’m very pleased to announce that I’ve updated this SCOM Daily Check Script to support SCOM 2016 whilst maintaining backward compatibility with SCOM 2012! So yes it’ll run on […]

August 22, 2016
Finding the Public IP Address for a Server using NSLookup

I was chatting to a colleague today (in the elevator of all places) and he was talking about using various websites to find your external IP Address but he wanted to know if there was a command line alternative or something in PowerShell. Given the fact that we spent less than a minute in the […]

August 20, 2016
SCOM Agents are Grey on a Domain Controller (SCOM 2007, 2012 and 2016)

When deploying a SCOM Agent to a Domain Controller you might notice the agent going grey. Most likely this is because you have configured the agent to use the default action account which is the LocalSystem account, or in other words: NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM. Now we could change this and use a specific domain user account just […]

August 18, 2016