To begin, the ‘ADFS addendum pack’ needs acknowledgement of the contributors who dealt with my many questions to better alert on AD issues! My thanks to Jason Windisch for his help and expertise with Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS). If you need more background, check the ‘why addendum pack’ post. BTW, what do you associate with the word – Federation?
Quick Download(s)
2016+ https://github.com/theKevinJustin/ADFSAddendum
Overview of capabilities
The Active Directory Federation Services ‘ADFS Addendum pack’ configures ADFS group of related classes for notification/subscription modeling. Second, the rules, service monitors, tasks, service recovery, alert cleanup, and summary reports aid consumption of real issues. Third, if you have ADFS2012R2, I have an addendum pack, but coordination necessary to get the ADFS management packs MSI (not currently available). Lastly, most environments should be 2016+, as the EOL/EOSL is quickly approaching in October!
ADFS Group discovery requires server names applicable to environment
Tailoring the pack(s) to your environment
First, the Active Directory Federation Services management packs MUST be installed for the ‘ADFS Addendum pack’ to load. 2016+ agnostic is currently supported, as the 2012,2012R2 products are near end of support.
Find/Replace the variables as needed
##ADFSSERVERNAME1##|##ADFSSERVERNAME1##|##LAB##
Save file
Workflows
First, the DataSources (DS) and WriteActions (WA) clean up alerts, create daily reports, where the WA are the on-demand tasks versions.
Data source (DS) scheduled workflows run weekdays between 0600-0700 local SCOM management server local time. The summary and team reports (run during this time) summarize key insights. NOTE: the Monday report gathers the last 72 hours, so administrators get a ‘what happened over the weekend’ view. Tuesday-Friday reports are past 24 hours. Lastly, the group policy report summarizing unique GPUpdate error output.
Monitoring
Addendum pack rules schedule data source execution, add on-demand tasks. The service monitor, and Recovery tasks add service recovery automation to bring us to the ‘manual intervention required’ alerting. There are a few monitor/rule overrides to match the health model.
Import
Download updated ‘ADFS addendum pack’ and save to your environment
Import into SCOM
Enjoy!
Documentation
ADFS 2016+ management pack download