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OS Addendum updates

OS Addendum updates - Can I get your attention please!?
Can I get your attention please!?

 

More updates for your monitoring pleasure with OS addendum updates!

 

OS Addendum updates

Been busy in the monitoring ‘bat’ cave crafting up new ways to simplify things, automating recoveries, top process finds, STIG compliance, automatic services logic, and PowerShell transcription checks.

Download https://github.com/theKevinJustin/2016ServerAgnostic/

 

Automatic Services – monitors services with automatic service type, and includes built in recovery when monitor unhealthy

PowerShell transcription – be compliant for STIG V-257502 and V-257503, also includes Daily report (runs daily Monday-Friday)

Sets multiple overrides to reduce extraneous OS workflows that most customers never use.

 

Change/revision history

v1.0.7.6 13 Jan 2025 Updated EnableTranscription Report variables
v1.0.7.5 8 Nov 2024 Added additional services into excluded services, uncommented ServiceName variable
v1.0.7.4 7 Nov 2024 Updated ExcludedServices in AutomaticServices monitor DS
v1.0.7.3 21 Oct 2024 Logical Disk rollup disable, hourly monitor setting changes, event and perf collection rule disabled
v1.0.7.2 21 Oct 2024 Updated AutomaticServices DS/WA workflows
v1.0.7.1 18 Oct 2024 Updated Excluded Services array with additional services, updated AutomaticServices DS/WA workflows.
v1.0.7.0 17 Oct 2024 Updated AutomaticServices monitor timeout from 240 to 600 for OpsMgr event ID 22404
v1.0.6.8 16 Oct 2024 Updated Storport Timed Out Monitor from 5 to 10 events per hour
v1.0.6.8 11 Oct 2024 Additional EnableTranscription workflows – reports, report cleanup, transcription log cleanup
v1.0.6.7 11 Apr 2024 New weekly PowerShell Enable Transcription monitor for STIG V-257502 and V-257503, and new weekly report
v1.0.6.5 10 Apr 2024 Updated recovery logic for AutomaticServices DS/WA
v1.0.6.4 9 Apr 2024 Updated AutomaticServices DS/WA logic change, ServiceName variable change to Service

Updated NOSC Daily Tasks

Keep your head up

Updated NOSC Daily Tasks with more insights, whether NOC/NOSC, or SCOM Admin related, check out the GitHub for the pack and change/revision history.

Keep your head up!   I find this is always a positive message to look up, not down. Leverage new key insights and download the pack from my GitHub repo – Proactive NOSC Daily Tasks link

 

Updated NOSC Daily Tasks Summary

Latest round adds simplification of SCOM agent workflow errors, adding the offending computer with the SCOMAdmin DailySummary alert details.

Offending alert examples from multiple customers

MSSQL on Windows: SQL Server has failed to allocate sufficient memory to run

Alert generation was temporarily suspended due to too many alerts (event ID 5399)

PowerShell was dropped

Expression Filter Module Failed Initialization (group regex errors)

The November pack updates add TicketID field to the SCOMAdmin, Daily Summary, Logical Disk report, and Alert updates reports.  This is invaluable when integrating service management (ITSM) system events/alerts/incidents into your monitoring.  Lastly, visibility into created incidents is key to business issues (see the AlertUpdates workflows).

Details

NOSC Management pack provides summary report alerts of key insights including: Expiring certificates, Logical Disk alerts, Pending reboots, System Admin summary, and SCOM admin reports including long-running scripts, script errors, SCOM errors, and alert updates report.

Blog https://kevinjustin.com/blog/2023/08/15/proactive-daily-reports/

Change History

v1.0.5.7  13 Jan 2025 Updated SCOMAlerts report details with format-table properties from select
v1.0.5.6  15 Nov 2024 SCOMAdmin and Daily Summary, Logical disk report changes
v1.0.5.4  12 Nov 2024 AlertUpdates report and various logging changes
v1.0.5.3   5 Nov 2024 Enabled AlertUpdate rules
v1.0.5.2  30 Oct 2024 Daily Summary and SCOMAlerts report updates
v1.0.5.1  17 Oct 2024 Added Operations Manager Event ID's 22402, 22406
v1.0.5.0   4 Jan 2024 Resolution State logic improvements for large environments
v1.0.4.9  21 Dec 2023 WhiteSpace, newline, return updates, Expiring Certs report moved back 1 hour
v1.0.4.8  20 Dec 2023 Updated all Get-SCOMAlert queries to use -ResolutionState (0..254) for performance increase over where-object
v1.0.4.7  18 Dec 2023 Updated Expiring Certs DS/WA, whitespace code check
v1.0.4.6  30 Nov 2023 Removed debug detail from DS/WA which showed in Health Explorer pane

Azure Application Insights

Application Insights

Application Insights simply put is Application Performance Management for web developers (or DevOps) on multiple platforms

Are you trying to solve how to monitor application performance?

Do you need to monitor application performance for ASP.NET, Java or Node.js apps?

SCOM can monitor, but not necessarily with the same functionality

Riverbed makes products, but at a higher cost

 

Dashboard

 

 

Much like SCOM APM agent, application Insights Monitors the same information, without having to setup SCOM in Azure

This is also an OMS solution, so if you’re using Azure for Web Applications, this should be on the to-do list

 

 

 

How about application Telemetry data?

 

Overview https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/application-insights/app-insights-overview
Documentation https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/application-insights/