22nd March 2013Advanced Operations Manager Training–Level 300/400
The new instructor led training are ready and scheduled. I have scheduled training in both US, Norway, Sweden and Denmark. So please contact me or one of the training centers about this training. If you have questions to the content or want more information – please send me an email. kra@coretech.dk And exactly as on [...]
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9th March 2013Running Tasks with PowerShell and $ID$
Whenever you want to run a Task against an Alert, its so easy to use the $ID$ variable: Create the powershell script c:\scripts\UpdAlert.ps1 with at least the following lines: Param($ID) Import-module OperationsManager GET-SCOMAlert –id “$ID” | SET-SCOMAlert –TicketID ‘100’ –ResolutionState 249 And create the following Task: Stay on one of your Alerts and Run the [...]
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24th January 2013Slides from NIC 2013 in Oslo – 2/2
Thank you all for the huge show up in Oslo at this year NIC, my second session was about Management Packs and Tools for Operations Manager 2012. Please download the slides if you did forget something… Download Slides Download Slides Have a great NIC Kåre
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24th January 2013Slides from NIC 2013 in Oslo
Thank you all for the huge show up in Oslo at this year NIC, my first session was about Implementing not Installing Operations Manager 2012. Please download the slides if you did forget something… Download Slides Implement SCOM 2012 Have a great NIC Kåre
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13th November 2012Powershell to change Resolution State in Operations Manager 2012
A powershell sample used at a customer for semi-automatically changing the Resolution States: Import-Module OperationsManager $Alerts = get-scomalert -ResolutionState 0 if ($Alerts) { foreach($Alert in $Alerts) { $newState = $null switch -wildcard ($Alert.Description) { "*Active directory*" { $newState = 10 } "*Exchange*" { $newState = 20 } "*DNS*" { $newState = 30 } [...]
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8th November 2012New Application/Tool to create Health Rollups of groups, Classes and Distributed Applications
In the past couple of years I have seen how companies are dealing with presenting their Services, Distributed Applications, Multi-Tired Applications; Many names for the same object. This Diagram Creation has often been a bit difficult, either you could create a group and use the group in Distributed Apps, which could give you a possibility [...]
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2nd October 2012Naming Conventions in SCOM 2012
During many Operations Manager installations at customers two things really struck me – the lack of naming conventions and good coffee – You guys have really good coffee machines which for sure make a consultant daily life easier and even better. Back to Naming Conventions – SCOM is just easier to maintain when you have [...]
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19th September 2012System Center Operations Manager 2012 Agent installation failed on a HP EVA Management server
If you are having trouble to install your SCOM Agent on a server where you have installed the HP eva management tools, Insight Manager etc. – first try to stop the Pegasus WMI Mapper – it seams like there are some kind of exclusive locks on WMI from the Open Pegasus WMI Mapper – which [...]
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15th August 2012Firewall rules for a SCOM Management Server
Want to keep the local firewall on your management sevrers and the SQL? Use the following commands to open what you need – Remember to run these the commands on each Management Server in the Resource pool you use for network monitoring. On the SQL Server: Run this at the SQL Server who is [...]
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11th July 2012Major issue with SCOM Install or “My SDK Data Service is not starting”
If you already have installed Operations Manager 2012 – Then Microsoft has a resolution: http://blogs.technet.com/b/momteam/archive/2012/06/28/kb-the-system-center-data-access-service-fails-to-start-after-applying-kb2677070.aspx For installation use the workaround In a couple of SCOM 2012 Installations I have now recieved an exeption when the installation tries to start the services, and the installation is rolled back. This seams to be after one of the newly [...]
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