Hi, I work at several customers managing their SCOM environment. In all those environments I come across the same questions eg.: This involves some steps to be taken: Performing those steps takes some time. Especially when you need to do it multiple times. I thought about a way to do this more efficiently/faster. Therefore I… Read More »
Hi guys, I was working on a custom monitor at one of my customers using a powershell script. It involved creating a dataset to store some variables coming from a SQL database. When trying to save the monitor I got an error stating: Incorrect expression specified: $Data = New-Object System.Data.dataset A quick search pointed at… Read More »
Hi, Sometimes it happens that a server stops reporting performance data to SCOM. But we still get alerted when a monitor gets critical. When do you notice this problem? Right, when you want to dive into performance data to troubleshoot something. Then you see that the server hasn’t sent performance data for the last couple… Read More »
Today I want to talk about sending Alerts from SCOM to Microsoft Teams. Due to the current situation a lot of companies (that didn’t use Microsoft Teams previously) start using Microsoft Teams and want to have as much data as possible there. Thus it might be interesting to have the (critical) open alerts there as… Read More »
I’ve updated the File count management pack, check it out: https://github.com/bpinoy/ManagementPacks/tree/master/File%20Count%20MP Location of registry key changes (HKLM/Software/Filecount –> HKLM/Software/SCOM/Filecount) Added perf rule to count all files (not only old files)
Hi, As I posted earlier SquaredUp can be integrated with all kinds of APIs, however if you know about management pack authoring an API can also be used as datasource in a management pack. In this post I’ll show some information about an Uptime Robot Management pack I created to create classes and instances of… Read More »
Hi, Today I want to talk about the integration of SquaredUp with external APIs. As an example I want to integrate date coming from Uptimerobot (https://uptimerobot.com/) in SquaredUp. Uptimerobot enables you to aadd 50 websites to check for free. First of all create an account for Uptimerobot To be able to access data we need… Read More »
Hi, Today I was at a customer who had a really specific question regarding monitoring of Windows Services with Operations Manager (SCOM). We had already set up some basic recovery actions which restart the service automatically after it was stopped. For some other services the customer wanted to add extra functionality: The recovery action should… Read More »
Hi, I come at a lot of customers to implement or support SCOM. Sometimes the same questions or troubles come up. One of that questions is: “Is it possible to monitor the count of files (with a specific extension) in a share?” The answer to this question is yes and no. There is a possibility… Read More »
Hi, Today I want to show you guys a nice example of how we can use custom scripts to visualise data coming from SCCM in Squared Up dashboards on top of a SCOM platform. And provide a strong integration between SCCM, SCOM & Squared Up. Squared Up is my favorite tool to create dashboards, check… Read More »