SCOM 2012 – Page 2

2014-01-14

MP Author a new authoring tool

Bridgeways has released a new Authoring tool targeted at the IT Pro. The Authoring tool, which is free, lets you build new MPs or customizing existing MPs without beeing a developer.

You can register and download the MP Author tool here: https://bridgeways.com/products/mp-author

2013-10-07

Check Database Size

There is a standard SQL report that shows how much space a database is using. In SQL Server Management Studio for SQL Server 2008 R2 and newer, right-click on the database you are interested in and select Reports->Standard Reports->Disk Usage.

There is a good description of this report, including information about how to resize a Operations Manager database in the SCOMfaq.ch blog: http://blog.scomfaq.ch/2012/06/26/scom-check-size-of-databases-sql-standard-reports/

2013-06-25

System Center 2012 R2 Preview

System Center 2012 R2 Preview is now available for download at TechNet Evaluation Center:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-US/evalcenter/dn205295.aspx

2013-02-08

How to make Operations Manager 2012 (SCOM 2012) Fault Tolerant

A good blogpost about how to make Operations Manager 2012 fault tolerant:
http://blog.coretech.dk/kra/how-to-make-operations-manager-2012-rc-scom-2012-fault-tolerance/

2012-10-19

Understanding Operations Manager Maintenance Mode

There is an excellent KB-article from Micrsoft on how Maintenance Mode in Operations Manager works:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2704170

2012-09-28

Regular expressions in SCOM

There is a good KB-article that describes the use of Regular Expressions in System Center Operations Manager:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2702651

2012-09-20

System Center 2012 Study Rescources

The following sites are good startingpoints if you want to learn about the System Center 2012 Products:
https://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com
http://blogs.technet.com/b/musings_of_a_technical_tam/archive/2012/07/08/system-center-2012-self-study-guide-complete-edition.aspx

2012-08-15

The broken Operations Manager Shell

I have a management server with the Operations Manager Console installed. When I tried to start the Operations Manager Shell it failed with the following errormessage:
Import-Module : The specified module ‘OperationsManager’ was not loaded because
no valid module file was found in any module directory.
At line:1 char:14
+ Import-Module <<<< OperationsManager; .OperationsManagerFunctions.ps1; .O perationsManagerStartup.ps1
     + CategoryInfo : ResourceUnavailable: (OperationsManager:String)
        [Import-Module], FileNotFoundException
       + FullyQualifiedErrorId : Modules_ModuleNotFound,Microsoft.PowerShell.Comm
        ands.ImportModuleCommand

The term ‘Start-OperationsManagerClientShell’ is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.
At C:Program FilesSystem Center 2012Operations ManagerPowershellOperationsManagerStartup.ps1:26 char:35
+ Start-OperationsManagerClientShell <<<< -ManagementServerName: “” -PersistConnection: $true -Interactive: $true;
+ CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (Start-OperationsManagerClientShell:String) [], CommandNotFoundException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException

The reason for this was that the path to “C:Program FilesSystem Center 2012Operations ManagerPowershell” was missing in the envorinmental variable PSModulePath. Once completed and logged out and back in to the system everything worked as espected.

2012-07-26