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Lync 2013 Addendum Management Pack

Continuing the Addendum tradition 🙂 Lync couldn’t be forgotten.

 

To understand options and methods available on the Server and SCOM, re-read the Active Directory Addendum blog

 

 

Lync 2013

Now that we understand the methods available, let’s get to the Addendum.

 

 

The Addendum pack has 32 Recovery Tasks for Lync Service Monitors.

 

The recoveries cover the following services:

Access Edge, CMS Master, File Transfer Agent, Lync Backup Service, Push Notification Service, Replica Replicator Agent, Online Telephony Conferencing, Audio Video Conferencing, BI Data Collector, Conferencing Attendant, Conferencing Announcement, Application Sharing, Persistent Chat, Persistenc Chat Compliance, Centralized Logging Service Agent, Call Park, Web Conferencing, Web Conferencing Edge, IM Conferencing, Legal Intercept Service, Log Retention Service, Audio Video Edge, Mediation, Audio Video Authentication, Bandwidth Policy Service Authentication, Bandwidth Policy Service Core, Server Response Group, Front End Service, World Wide Web Publishing, XMPP Translating Gateway, XMPP Translating Gateway Proxy.

The recovery tasks verify service state, start ‘not running’ services, and include the option to recalculate health.

 

 

My goal is automation that helps anyone work smarter versus harder, with the goal to avoid being woke up at 2am just to restart a service.

 

Gallery Download          https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Lync-2013-Addendum-2a92aa00

Skype for Business 2015 (SfB) Addendum Management Pack

 

 

Continuing the Addendum tradition 🙂 Skype was next on the list.

 

To understand options and methods available on the Server and SCOM, re-read the Active Directory Addendum blog

 

 

Skype for Business 2015 (SfB)

Now that we understand the methods available, let’s get to the Addendum.

This Skype Addendum MP adds Recovery Tasks to the Skype for Business 2015 Service Monitors.

The recovery tasks verify service state, start ‘not running’ services, and recalculate health.

36 services monitored, with 36 recovery tasks.

The recovery tasks verify service state, start ‘not running’ services, and include the option to recalculate health.

 

 

My goal is automation that helps anyone work smarter versus harder, with the goal to avoid being woke up at 2am just to restart a service.

 

Gallery Download      https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Skype-for-Business-2015-b005f49f

 

Active Directory 2012-2016 Addendum Management Pack

A Post-it note is like an addendum, no?

 

 

As an Operations engineer, how many times do you get notified for a service restart?

 

Did you know about Service Recovery actions, or SCOM Recovery Tasks?

 

Why didn’t the SCOM Recovery tasks get added to many of the common Microsoft Applications?

 

 

Hopefully today, we can discuss some actions to help limit the amount of manual rework required to resolve service issues.

 

Let’s explain the basics

  1. Windows Servers have a Recovery tab in the Services.msc menu.
  2. Does your monitoring tool allow for recovery actions?

 

 

To implement recovery actions, here’s an example of the Services Recovery Tab

Here’s an example of the SCOM agent service

          NOTE 3 failures spaced 1 minute apart to restart the service

 

 

Let’s take it one step further, and add a restart to the service from another tool (insert your monitoring tool here).

 

In SCOM, taking an action after identifying the problem can be handled different ways

  • Services are related to Health, which are typically found as monitors, and to apply restart automation falls into Recovery Tasks.

 

  • In Monitors as a ‘Recovery Task’, or in Rules as a response

  • Rule Response

 

 

 

 

Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS)

Now that we understand the methods available, let’s get to the Addendum.

The Active Directory Domain Services Addendum MP will add Recovery tasks to AD DS Service Monitors.

NOTE: This is for the newer v10.0.x.y management packs that support AD DS 2012-2016

 

Specifically, the Pack has 12 Recovery tasks for DFS, NTDS, DFSR, IsmServ, KDC, NetLogon, NTFRS, W32Time, Group Policy, DNS Client, ADWS, and DNS.

 

The recovery tasks verify service state, start ‘not running’ services, and include the option to recalculate health.

 

 

My goal is automation that helps anyone work smarter versus harder, with the goal to avoid being woke up at 2am just to restart a service.

 

Gallery Download      https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/SCOM-AD-Directory-Addendum-22d0473a

 

Get to know your monitor

Ever need to disable a specific monitor?

I know I get tired of clicking through the console, maybe you do too?
Do you know the Monitor name and class?
If yes, then you can enable/disable monitors from PowerShell

 

So let’s get started.

From your management server, you can run SCOM commands as your ID (assuming your ID is set up in SCOM)

 

This example has 2 purposes:

  1. SQL2016 SP1 does NOT populate the proper fields, and will be fixed in SP2 per the SQL Engineering blog (Look at comments section – blog here)
  2. Tired of the warning alerts in my SCOM console

 

Find the monitors

$Monitor = get-scommonitor | where { $_.DisplayName -like “Service Pack Compliance” } | where { $_.Name -like “*Microsoft.SQLServer.2016.DBEngine*” }

 

Let’s focus for a second on some differences, and how you can interchange the two depending on what information you know

DisplayName attribute is what you see in the console (note the spaces)

Name attribute typically has dots for the spaces

 

Override a class

Disable-SCOMMonitor -Class $Class -ManagementPack $MP -Monitor $Monitor

Just in case you need to undo the override

Enable-SCOMMonitor -Class $Class -ManagementPack $MP -Monitor $Monitor

 

Override a group

$Group = (Get-SCOMGroup -DisplayName “Group*”)

 

# Enable the group

Enable-SCOMMonitor -Group $Group -ManagementPack $MP -Monitor $Monitor

 

# Disable the group

Disable-SCOMMonitor -Group $Group -ManagementPack $MP -Monitor $Monitor

 

 

Reference Links

Disable-SCOMMonitor https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/systemcenter/systemcenter2016/operationsmanager/vlatest/disable-scommonitor

Enable-SCOMMonitor https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/systemcenter/systemcenter2016/OperationsManager/vlatest/Enable-SCOMMonitor

PowerShell Rule and Monitor Template packs MP including fragments

 

Hit the easy button!

 

For all those diehard SCOM Console MP authoring folks, don’t forget about Wei Lim’s blogs to help add PowerShell script functionality into rules and monitors.

 

PowerShell Rules Blog https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/wei_out_there_with_system_center/2015/09/28/opsmgr-new-sample-powershell-collection-rule-wizards-in-the-ops-console/

PowerShell Monitor blog https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/wei_out_there_with_system_center/2015/07/09/opsmgr-new-sample-wizard-to-create-powershell-monitors-in-the-ops-console/

Performance Data blog https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/wei_out_there_with_system_center/2015/10/03/opsmgr-collecting-performance-data-using-a-powershell-script-collection-rule-created-from-a-wizard/

Download Rule https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Sample-Management-Pack-e48040f7

Download Monitor https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Sample-Management-Pack-17b76379

 

If authoring with Visual Studio or Notepad++, don’t forget Holman’s MP fragments!

Discover Class = Class.And.Discovery.Script.PowerShell.mpx

Monitor Timed Script PowerShell = Monitor.TimedScript.PowerShell.mpx

Monitor Timed Script SQL Query PowerShell = Monitor.TimedScript.PowerShell.SQLQuery.mpx

PowerShell Performance Rule = Rule.Performance.Collection.PowerShellScript.mpx

 

Download fragments here

 

Happy MP Authoring!