Tag: backup

Have a lot of SCOM subscriptions?

You logged into SCOM because someone said they didn’t get a notification

Looked at subscriptions and it’s blank

 

Do you know if you backed up your subscriptions?

 

Hopefully, you read this and back up your management packs

Hope you read this blog, and it saved your life!

 

For those who love the Console UI

You can manually back up the MP

From the SCOM console

Click on the Administration Tab

Click on Management Packs (2012), or Installed Management Packs (2016)

Type ‘notification’ in the ‘Look for:’ bar

Hit Enter

Highlight the ‘Notifications Internal Library’ pack

Click on Export Management Pack

Name your path

Hit OK

 

For simple PowerShell

 

# Backup Management packs to C drive

# Set up your path, this example is monadmin\backup

$date = Get-Date -UFormat “%Y-%m-%d”

c:

cd monadmin\backup

new-item -itemtype directory -path c:\monadmin\backup\$date

cd $date

Get-SCOMManagementPack -Name *Notification* | Export-SCOMManagementPack -Path “C:\monadmin\backup\$date”

 

Getting Started with OMS – Operations Manager Suite

How do you make sure the business you’re in is productive and making widgets?

 

What does OMS do?

Acronym:  OMS – Operations Manager Suite

IMHO

Answer:  Pretty much anything you can imagine to help provide a single pane of glass into what is happening in your IT environment.

Do you use System Center?

You can tailor OMS to any solution in the Solutions gallery, and you can even request solutions and functionality in the UserVoice website.

 

Ready to dig into OMS, even if you’re not cloud based?

 

OMS has four basic services

 

Learn more about the OMS solutions

Verify OMS managed Computers link

Capacity and Performance (HyperV) link

Service Map link

How to be heard link

 

 

Additional information

OMS Overview Azure Monitor overview

Channel 9 videos https://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/OMS-TECH-Fridays
OMS Blog https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/msoms/

 

 

SCOM Management Pack backup

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Ever wish you had a backup of your MP?

 

It’s quite easybutton

 

Tailor to your requirements, but you can run this as a scheduled task, Orchestrator job, etc.

I would recommend running the script on a server with the Operations Manager shell (or at least add the Operations Manager snapIn to a non SCOM server)

NOTE This will unseal sealed management packs

 

# Backup Management packs to C drive

# Set up your path, my example is monadmin\backup

$date = Get-Date -UFormat “%Y-%m-%d”

c:

cd monadmin\backup

new-item -itemtype directory -path c:\monadmin\backup\$date

cd $date

# Variants accepted

# Examples – begins with OR, or Company Name, or contains Lab

Get-SCOMManagementPack -Name OR* | Export-SCOMManagementPack -Path “C:\monadmin\backup\$date”

Get-SCOMManagementPack -Name <CompanyName>* | Export-SCOMManagementPack -Path “C:\monadmin\backup\$date”

Get-SCOMManagementPack -Name *Lab* | Export-SCOMManagementPack -Path “C:\monadmin\backup\$date”

 

# Backup Management packs to E drive

# Set up your path, this example is monadmin\backup

$date = Get-Date -UFormat “%Y-%m-%d”

E:

cd monadmin\backup

new-item -itemtype directory -path e:\monadmin\backup\$date

cd $date

Get-SCOMManagementPack -Name OR* | Export-SCOMManagementPack -Path “E:\monadmin\backup\$date”

Get-SCOMManagementPack -Name *Lab* | Export-SCOMManagementPack -Path “E:\monadmin\backup\$date”

 

 

New Unix MP’s for 2016 and 2012R2

 

 

If you didn’t catch this (I didn’t), the 2016 Universal Linux Monitoring MP is missing, but is in the 2012R2 bundle

Until the bundle is fixed, don’t forget to grab the Universal Linux Monitoring MP from the 2012R2 bundle

unixmpdownloadforscom2012r2

Export the 2012R2 bundle, grab the MP

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Import MP into SCOM

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If that’s just a tad bit annoying, remember Microsoft wants feedback.

Feedback can be about problems, product specific feature requests, and functionality.

 

Use the UserVoice website for SCOM (System Center Operations Manager) https://systemcenterom.uservoice.com/

There are a lot of good features and feedback on the site.   If you weren’t aware, the product team uses this to prioritize updates to the product.

Search, vote up feedback for what’s most near and dear to your heart

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Fix 2016 Universal Linux Monitoring MP

Universal Linux MP guide needs updating