As a SME or team lead, ever need to know a key insight for the enclave? Let’s talk about the ‘Proactive Daily Reports’ pack. This provides you some built-in reports on what transpired in an enclave. Building again on the Health pillar, we can simplify what owners need to see. Creating a PowerShell script was a simpler alternative to a complex SSRS report that often broke due to patching, and not following best practices. The pack shows a simpler way to bring key insights to owners for Pending Reboots, Expiring PKI certificates, Logical Disk alerts, System Admin summary, and SCOM admin reports including long-running scripts, script errors, SCOM errors, and alert updates report.
Quick Download: https://github.com/theKevinJustin/ProactiveNOSCDailyTasks
Testing the Proactive Daily reports
Let’s start with some example reports – examples for expiring certificates, Logical Disk, Pending Reboot, System Admin summary, and SCOM admin reports including long-running scripts, script errors, SCOM errors, and alert updates report.
Expiring Certs –
About to expire certificates
Logical disk alerts –
Shows Server, drive, and % full data
Alerts of servers pending restart, not patched, not rebooted
System Admin summary
This is really a consolidation of multiple insights:
Server performance issues
Open ITSM/Remedy tickets
Unhealthy Agents
Pending Reboot, Not Rebooted, Not patched
Disabled/Unhealthy/MaintenanceMode, Repeatedly down Agents
Logical Disk free space alerts
Expiring certificates
AD DC (ADDS) critical alerts
DNS alerts
Group Policy issues
SCOM admin reports
Admin reports have a few separate alert reports, including long-running scripts, script errors, SCOM errors, and alert updates report.
Long running scripts
ScriptErrors showing key SCOM connectivity issues
SCOM Admin script errors to help diagnose report script syntax errors
Useful links
Other blog posts for addendum management packs and capabilities –
https://kevinjustin.com/blog/2023/08/15/proactive-patching-alerts/
https://kevinjustin.com/blog/2023/08/14/top-process-powershell-script/
https://kevinjustin.com/blog/2023/08/15/proactive-daily-reports/
https://kevinjustin.com/blog/2023/08/08/create-closed-alerts-view/