test events Archives - Kevin Justin's Blog

Test fire any event on any server from any application

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 limitations)

First, download the 2007 R2 Admin ResKit here

MomTeam blog reference

Double click the downloaded MSI

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 events, had a use case where we needed to test Skype events from the SCOM MP

Testing on my SCOM 2016 Management server

Download file, run EventLog Explorer

The Paste icon next to the X is ‘Add to Execution List’ and fills out the bottom pane

The Green Arrow is ‘go’ or execute (similar to PowerShell ISE)

Navigate through the Event Log and Event Source on the left hand pane

Mark events with the checkbox

Add to Execution

Verify events added to bottom pane

(see my test yesterday for fired, and not fired events from today)

Click Green box with white arrow to fire events, and check Event Viewer

Yesterday’s test

Today’s test

Verify alerting occurred as expected!