SCOM is an acronym for Microsoft's System Center Operation Manager.
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Can MS SCOM delegate monitoring and dashboards to a product team?
With Microsoft System Center Operation Manager 2012, can you create a group of resources/servers and delegate management to a team of programmers?
And can they setup their own dashboards to sit on a ...
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How to lower SCOM discovery time
I am developing a SCOM pack, and every time I do a change to the discovery rules I re-deploy my pack to SCOM and it takes it a lot of time to update the discovered objects. This makes my development ...
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How do I find the HKLM Registry Key of a Server Role for use in SCOM
I am learning to use SCOM in order to develop a SCOM pack. The only usable tool I have found (yet) to develop a pack is Visio (with the management pack designer).
I managed to create a pack that ...
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Notification throttling and alert content on SCOM
Our SCOM 2007 server is managed by a monitoring team so I don't have much control over it.I am trying to go through the SCOM alerts in my mailbox to see if I can minimize the amount of alerts we ...
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Tool to monitor for success or failure within a given amount of time
My team is trying to solve a monitor challenge when it comes to backups.
The backup is running fine. Our current challenge is to monitor these backups so that they actualy do happen.
We can send a ...
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SCOM 2012 - JBoss / MBeans
Recently i have started getting familiar with SCOM 2012 because my company is thinking to change to SCOM from RHQ.
So, for testing purposes i have installed SCOM Server on a machine.
I want to ...
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Create a SCOM Monitor/Alert with a threshold relative to a performance counter?
Is it possible to have a SCOM monitor that is related to a performance counter. For instance, we monitor a WCF Service Operation that gives us an indicator of our system's workload ("Calls Per ...
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SCOM Custom Data against a managed entity
Is it possible to extend SCOM to store custom fields against a monitored/managed entity? For instance, we would like to add some additional data about each managed entity, mostly text and internal ...
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Use SCOM 2012, WMI, or Powershell to identify all servers that have hyper threading turned off
We recently setup SCOM 2012 and deployed agents to all of our servers. We also have noticed that a number of these servers do not have hyper threading enabled, which they should. Is there any way we ...
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Put Servers into Maintenance Mode through script using SCOM 2012 [closed]
Is there an api for SCOM so that we can use a script to put a server into maintenance mode?
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SCOM 2012 with MS SQL Server 2008 Standard SP1
I've been trying to install SCOM 2012 on one machine with SQL 2008 Standard SP1... And I can't. During the installation of SCOM in the Operational Database phase, It WILL NOT connect to my SQL server. ...
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SCOM 2012 DNS Forwarder Availability Monitor
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I have an environment with two different AD domains, each in its own forest, each with two Windows Server 2008 R2 domain controllers acting as DNS servers. There is no trust between the ...
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SCOM Maintenance Mode
SCOM supports putting discreet objects/classes/targets into maintenance mode. This gives a very fine control over what objects/classes/targets have alerts forwarded or not.
Unfortunately, ...
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Monitoring JBOSS 6.1 with SCOM 2012 using JMX
I have really no knowledge about SCOM and a very little knowledge about JMX protocol. What I am trying to achieve is I have a HelloWorld application which has an HelloWorldMBean works perfectly fine ...
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SCOM2012 monitor detail changes on switch
Could I use SCOM2012 monitor the changes on switch(CISCO 3750 2960 4906 etc), such as VLAN changes, Port shutdown, open any services on switch.
I noticed there is one reports named configuration ...
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Failed to import SLES11 to SCOM2012
I try to the import my SLES11 to SCOM 2012, but failed. Below is my simple steps and failed error message.
Import SLES11 mp
DNS resolve both SCOM and SLES11
Install SCOM Agent and cert.
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SCOM vs. Windows System Center vs. HP Operations Manager
(I asked this question over on Stack Overflow and they sent me here. Sorry for the very basic question, but I have purely coding experience - no server management stuff at all - and this is ...
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MS Operations Manager 2012 Web Console access Active Directory Users And Computers
Does anyone know if it is possible to add/manage "Active Directory Users And Computers" to/from the System Center 2012 Operations Manager Web Console?
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Can SCOM 2007 and SCCM 2012 co-exist?
One of our client's has an existing SCOM 2007 installation, with monitoring agents pushed out to all the Windows servers in their environment. They're now looking at installing SCCM 2012.
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SCOM: Override all monitors for host
I'm running SCOM 2007 R2 to monitor both production and dev environments. I want all of the monitors to be enabled, but I want a way to disable all of the alerts on the dev servers. I know I can go in ...
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Can SCOM 2007R2 monitor Exchange in a separate Forest?
We have multiple forests, each with an independent install of Exchange 2010 SP2.
Can one SCOM installation monitor both forests?
Is a one way or a two way trust needed?
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How to update license key in SCOM 2012 after eval period expires?
Does anyone know how to update the license key for SCOM 2012 after the evaluation period expires. My scom server will not allow me to connect and will not allow me to update the key using the power ...
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SCOM 2012 - SQL Server Monitoring
I have been tasked to see whether SCOM 2012 is the right tool to do the following, which have been asked of me:
Find out what are the longest running queries
Find out the number of locks
Does ...
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Change source address on discovery of network devices in System Center Operations Manager 2012
My SCOM server has two network cards. One is normal network while the other is connected to the "switch" VLAN. If I try discovering network devices in SCOM I get "No Response Ping", no matter which ...
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How do I realert Scom Monitors?
There's a "rule of monitors" that a user of scom might be aware of. If you have an alert that was generated by a monitor (as opposed to a rule that generates alerts) do not close it and let it close ...
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case-insensitive SCOM Rule expression
I have a Rule watching the Application Log for Event 17137 (database starting up). A minor annoyance is that, whenever an instance is failed over, we see alerts fire from both the node and the ...
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Monitor message queues
I'm looking for a simple way to monitor RabbitMQ queues from SCOM. In particular, I want to be notified when a particular queue (one we use for "dead letters") is not empty.
RabbitMQ has a RESTful ...
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In SCOM, can I allow overriding of the recurring schedule for missing event detection?
I'm creating a rule to look for a missing event in a windows log using SCOM and I need to override the rule for different groups of servers to set different timings.
For example server A needs to ...
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How do I create a Dynamic SCOM group that includes HP servers with a certain name
I'd like to select servers that are HP servers and start with NYCEX*. I looked at the following HP group and the query appears like this:
<Expression>
<Contains>
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PSEXEC from powershell
I have been struggling getting powershell to run Psexec. It works fine for single line commands. but i need to call SCOM to put the server in maintenance mode through Psexec...
$output = ...
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Lync Pool discovery issue in SCOM 2007 R2
Trying to get my Lync topology to show up in the SCOM 2007 R2 console.
So far, I've done the following:
Deployed the SCOM agent to the Lync servers
Enabled Agent Proxy on all Front End servers in ...
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Whats the overhead on Systems Center Operations Manager(from Microsoft)?
Whats the overhead on the client that runs and publishes data for the Systems Center Operations Manager? Most of the data that I want are the perfmon counters. In general, I don't worry to much about ...
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How to get admins to actually use SCOM? [closed]
We implemented SCOM in our internal infrastructure. However, I have the impression that is isn't used as it could be.
For example: we have had regular incidents in our production (and other) ...
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What are practical uses for the Custom fields within an alert in Microsoft SCOM?
How are people in the real world using custom fields in Microsoft System Operations Manager 2007? Are they useful? How do you interact with them?
So far, I've only found this link but I'm looking for ...
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Monitor one server with two separate SCOM (opsmgr) consoles
We have a situation where we have two independently deployed and managed SCOM consoles in our organization; both consoles are interested in collecting data from the same servers.
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Monitoring OpenMQ in SCOM via JMX
Is there a way to connect SCOM to OpenMQ via JMX to monitor it? I've found an app named BridgeWays Java Attributes that can apparently do this but it is right now in beta. I was wondering if SCOM has ...
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What resources are helpful to a SCOM Administrator [closed]
What websites and resources are helpful for a SCOM administrator?
Based on my own research I found the following links helpful:
Software: Quest Extensions Manager
Community site/Blob: Everything ...
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SCOM 2007 Active Directory attribute discovery
I am trying to create a group in SCOM 2007 R2 based on the AD attribute DS_managedBy from a WMI query. I currently have a discovery that returns a list of all computer objects and the "managed by" ...
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Monitoring Network Devices Across Multiple Subnets with SCOM 2007 R2
SCOM will only discover and monitor network devices on the same subnet as the management server. SCOM is able to discover and monitor servers and clients on different subnets. SNMP and ACLs are ...
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Create group in SCOM 2007 R2 that targets windows computer but is populated based on an installed service
I am trying to create a group in SCOM 2007 R2 that targets the Windows Computer class but is populated based on a certain service being installed. I want the group to be populated dynamically based on ...
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Two-state script monitor not auto-resolving in SCOM
This script runs, and if it returns 'erro' an alert is generated in SCOM. The alert is set to resolve when the monitor returns to healthy state. I have tested the script with cscript and it returns ...
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Disks not being monitored on DPM server - SCOM
We have two DPM 2010 servers that are being monitored in SCOM. On one of the servers the disks are being monitored and on the other they are not. I don't see a difference between the settings of the ...
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SCOM, Powershell and SMTP
I have created a Powershell script that emulates a telnet connection to an SMTP Server, the purpose of this is to check our SMTP gateway server to see if there is issue with sending mail. The script ...
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Simulate DOS/High Workload on IIS
I want to simulate a DOS attack, or a very high workload on a simple IIS web site. The purpose is testing SCOM responses with IIS.
Any suggestions for a tool and/or script?
Thanks!
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Migrate SCOM 2007 R2 Databases to SQL 2008 R2 (change server)
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I have a SCOM 2007 R2 server that uses a sql 2005 server.
Machine 1: SCOM (SCOM 2007 R2 - W2K3)
Machine 2: SQL2005 (SQL 2005 SP2 - W2K3)
SQL Cluster: SQLCLUSTER (SQL 2008 R2 on Cluster - ...
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Problems with Sharepoint 2010, Visio Data Provider and Operations Manager 2007 R2
I'm in the process of setting up rack diagrams using Visio 2010 Premium pulling in data from System Centre Operations Manager 2007 R2 using the add in. I'm trying to publish the diagram to a ...
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SCOM Timed Monitor Two State Script Not Working
I have a two state script I've added to Monitoring that checks the state of a service on two servers and reports if it's running on both or none (should only run on one). It runs fine interactively ...
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Can Windows Server intercept SNMP and write to the event log?
We have a software package that can speak SNMP when things go awry. Currently, we're using Tivoli to monitor SNMP and send out alerts as needed. We've been informed that our Tivoli installation is ...
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How to use SCOM 2007 R2 to see AD Computer last logon?
Can I use SCOM 2007 R2 to see Computers last logon from Active Directory?
I have 4 domain controllers that need to be replicated.
I know that I can use other programs like ...
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SCOM 2007 - SQL Server Monitoring
I've been tasked with comparing the monitoring capabilities in SCOM 2007 with the established SQL products such as Spotlight, SQLSentry, etc.
I'm pretty sure that SCOM can't do some of the more ...
