Tag: best practice

MCM Addendum pack

The MCM addendum pack helps monitor MEM. See start menu folder structure for Endpoint Manager software.
The MCM addendum pack helps monitor MEM. See start menu folder structure for Endpoint Manager software.

Rebranding central – MEM, EM, MECM, SCCM, Configuration manager, depending on the synonym, we’re referring to the same product.  Tune the most common critical alerts per the health model to warning.

 

QUICK DOWNLOAD https://github.com/theKevinJustin/MCMAddendum/

Background

Read Holman’s blog for more details.

Did you know – MCM discoveries are based on registry keys added with various role installs on windows servers.  These registry keys are typically under this path:  HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\SMS\Operations Management\Components

 

What capabilities does the ‘MCM addendum pack’ provide?

Quite simply, the pack provides warning severity overrides for common alerts, disable event collection rules.

9 overrides for monitors and rules included in addendum.
9 overrides for monitors and rules included in addendum.

 

Includes warning severity changes for the following rules and monitors:

Monitors

BackupStatus.StatusMessage.Monitor

ReportingPoint.RoleAvailability.Monitor

SoftwareUpdatePoint.RoleAvailability.Monitor

SoftwareUpdatePointSync.AlertState.Monitor

Rules

ComponentServer.ComponentStoppedUnexpectedly.Event.Rule

SiteComponentManager – CanNotFindObjectInAD.Event.Rule, CouldNotAccessSiteSystem.Event.Rule

StateSystem.FailedToExecuteSummaryTask.Event.Rule

WsusConfigurationManager.FailedToConfigProxy.Event.Rule

 

 

Utilize the ‘MCM Addendum pack’

Download Kevin Holman’s MCM pack from GitHub.

Download the Addendum here, to get alerts where manual intervention required.

Save packs

 

Enjoy some acronym humor and ‘who moved my cheese fun!’

MECM PowerShell
MECM PowerShell

 

Import into SCOM & Enjoy!

 

If you need more capabilities, reach out on the blog or GitHub.

 

Documentation

Github repository here

SCCM management pack

Holman blog for MEM, EM, MCM, MECM, CM, ConfigMgr, Configuration Manager

Scripting SCOM Registry key tweaks

 

Time to tune!

 

 

Had some requests to script the registry tweaks for SCOM

 

Starting off with Holman’s blog entry …

 

TechNet Gallery download here

 

Save .txt file as .ps1

 

On SCOM Management server(s)

Close out any SCOM Console session (to prevent SDK errors)

Run as administrator in PowerShell window

Restart SCOM services

restart-service omsdk; restart-service healthservice; restart-service chost

Verify services running

get-service omsdk; get-service healthservice; get-service chost

Clarification on Registry Key discoveries

 

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 Fragment header

%%
Description:
    This fragment includes a Monitor which checks for the existence of a registry VALUE
 RegValuePath – needs to be in the format of “SOFTWARE\Microsoft\CCM\HttpPort” or “SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\CcmExec\Start” as HKLM is assumed
 RegValueName – needs to be the actual Reg VALUE name or your description of it (NO SPACES or special characters allowed) such as “HttpPort”
Version: 1.1
LastModified: 29-May-2017
%%

In the MP Fragment, you substitute the variables

<AttributeName>##RegValueName##</AttributeName>
<Path>##RegValuePath##</Path>

<AttributeName>ObjectName</AttributeName>
<Path>SYSTEM\SysInfo\AppName</Path>

 

Registry Key = HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\HealthService\Test

Fragment variable (##RegValueName##) = SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\HealthService\Test

AttributeName or ##RegValueName## is simply whatever you want to call the attribute

Simply the name of the Registry value for my example is Test

Substitute ##RegValueName## for Test

 

If you’re testing in the lab, decrease frequency so you don’t have to wait as long

<Frequency>120</Frequency>

Remember to increase the frequency when you’re done

 

Upload MP (don’t forget to version your pack!)

 

Watch Health Explorer and test away adding or removing your key

 

Helpful testing tips to add a key to the registry and flip the health

reg add “HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\TestService” /v “Test” /t REG_SZ /d Test

reg delete “HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\TestService” /v “Test”