Operational monitoring tools including System Center, Azure Monitor
Hello again, it’s time to talk about ADCS – Active Directory Certificate Services Addendum! First, I’d like to call out Bob Williams and Vance Cozier for their help and expertise! SCOM-ADCS-Addendum download Background ADCS is Active Directory Certificate Services, or what we would know as a Certificate Authority. The goal was …
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Digging in the archives… From a discussion with some PFE’s – the question was ‘how do I create knowledge for a monitor/rule?’ Tyson Paul pointed out the system Center Wiki ‘Knowledge Article authoring’ When you create a knowledge article in an MP (let’s not even go into the console GUI! ) If the Knowledge …
A SQL Alias is kinda like wearing disguise glasses… From a security perspective, you can make things difficult for attackers by specifying a SQL alias and different port for SQL. Symptom – discovery fails for WFM pack Trying to monitor and figure out what the real database name, instance, etc. …
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Golden Oldies – always popular (tools vs music) Old Holman blog that’s still relevant, even more powerful than EventLog Explorer Basically anyone who wants to test fire events off a SCOM MP should use this tool. Event Create, write-eventlog all have limitations (certain event sources that can be used to create events, or event ID number …
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Sometimes we forget about tools that can make things easier. Time to talk about EventLog Explorer. Need to repro and test events for an installed program, to see what SCOM will handle? Read this old mom team blog, courtesy of Kevin Holman blog I wanted to try it to test fire some …
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Look for 6400 Event ID’s in the Operations Manager log on the management server if you do not have the correct information Event ID 6400 in Operations Manager log helps show what’s missing with Azure AD error events Follow steps outlined in the ‘Set up Azure Service Principal’ blog here Sample …
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VSAE support for VS2017 has been released! https://systemcenterom.uservoice.com/forums/293064-general-operations-manager-feedback/suggestions/18560653-updated-vsae-to-support-visual-studio-2017 VSAE download https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30169 MomTeam Blog https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/System-Center-Blog/System-Center-Visual-Studio-Authoring-Extension-VSAE-support-for/ba-p/351872?search-action-id=139696432720&search-result-uid=351872/
Ran across this in my travels, difficulty getting a monitor to work properly To clarify some of the registry MP fragments, make sure you follow the whole path This post is to help with using the Monitor.RegistryValue.Exists.mpx fragment Example – Verify Registry Key under TestService This is an excerpt from the MP …
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Stop! Ever need to run a PowerShell command (or script) as a specific ID? Maybe you need to know when the command fails to catch degraded application health? Let’s work into the scenario with a MP Fragment Download the latest fragments here
Shout to Tyson Paul for his initial MP with 2016, catch his blog here! This should help speed up building the MP if you have Visual Studio 2013 or 2015 with Visual Studio Authoring Extensions (VSAE). Read Kevin Holman’s blog if this is new Download the latest fragments here Quicker method To …