Tag: UI Console

Re-learn an old but still relevant tool – EventLog Explorer

 

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!

PowerShell Monitor Fragment with Run As

Stop!

 

Ever need to run a PowerShell command (or script) as a specific ID?

Maybe you need to know when the command fails to catch degraded application health?

 

Let’s work into the scenario with a MP Fragment

 

Download the latest fragments here

Load Test MP fragment

Shout to Tyson Paul for his initial MP with 2016, catch his blog here!

 

This should help speed up building the MP if you have Visual Studio 2013 or 2015 with Visual Studio Authoring Extensions (VSAE).  Read Kevin Holman’s blog if this is new

 

Download the latest fragments here

 

Quicker method To build the MP as MP fragment, update the following:

  1. Import MP Fragment into Visual Studio for MP
  2. Replace variables in fragment
    1.   ##CompanyID##
    2.   ##AppName## – LoadTesting
    3.   ##ClassID## – WindowsServer
    4.   ##OSVersion## – 2012 = 6.2, 2012R2 = 2012.R2, 2016 = 100
    5.   ##MPReferenceID## – MWS2M for 2012, MWS2RM for 2012R2
    6.   ##RuleGUID##
  3. Obtain Rule names for Override Targets and Report rule GUID’s for the report parameters section

          get-scomrule | ? { $_.DisplayName -like “System Processor Queue Length*” } | fl ID,DisplayName,Name

          get-scomrule | ? { $_.DisplayName -like “Current Disk Queue Length*” } | fl ID,DisplayName,Name

          get-scomrule | ? { $_.DisplayName -like “Current Disk Queue*” } | fl ID,DisplayName,Name

          get-scomrule | ? { $_.DisplayName -like “Current Dis*k Queue*” } | fl ID,DisplayName,Name

          get-scomrule | ? { $_.DisplayName -like “*Current Disk Queue*” } | fl ID,DisplayName,Name

          get-scomrule | ? { $_.DisplayName -like “*Average Disk Seconds Per Transfer*” } | fl ID,DisplayName,Name

          get-scomrule | ? { $_.DisplayName -like “*Logical Disk Idle Time*” } | fl ID,DisplayName,Name

          get-scomrule | ? { $_.DisplayName -like “*Processor Time Total*” } | fl ID,DisplayName,Name

          get-scomrule | ? { $_.DisplayName -like “*Memory Available Megabytes*” } | fl ID,DisplayName,Name

          get-scomrule | ? { $_.DisplayName -like “*Network Adapter Bytes Total*” } | fl ID,DisplayName,Name

          get-scomrule | ? { $_.DisplayName -like “*Memory Pages per Second*” } | fl ID,DisplayName,Name

          get-scomrule | ? { $_.DisplayName -like “*System Processor Queue Length*” } | fl ID,DisplayName,Name

  1. Save and Import MP into environment
  2. Get Report parameter value for group ID

          get-ScomGroup | ? { $_.DisplayName -like “*Load Testing Group*” } | fl ID,DisplayName

  1. Update ##TargetGroupID##, MP version
    1. Save MP, and import into environment
  2. From SCOM Console, Authoring Tab
    1. Update group with explicit members
    2. Verify Group members
  3. From SCOM Console, Monitoring Tab
    1. Verify Performance view has performance counters
  4. From SCOM Console Reporting Tab (this may take a few minutes to push report to Reporting server)
    1. Open report and run
    2. Export data for analysis