{"id":20421,"date":"2024-07-26T16:59:45","date_gmt":"2024-07-26T20:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kevinjustin.com\/blog\/?p=20421"},"modified":"2024-07-26T16:59:45","modified_gmt":"2024-07-26T20:59:45","slug":"scom-agent-maintenance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevinjustin.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/26\/scom-agent-maintenance\/","title":{"rendered":"SCOM Agent Maintenance"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Wrench<\/a>
Wrench for SCOM agent maintenance<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

When we talk about best practices for monitoring, this will typically include (SLA) Service Level Availability.\u00a0 SLA is an important piece in your environment, as uptime and happy customers come with a high SLA.\u00a0 There are some cases where IT Teams do work on demand.\u00a0 On-demand work is outside of a standard change window, a scheduled change.\u00a0 Typically this is outside configuration management tools, responsible to update software (applications\/packages), machines, drivers, compliance settings, and more.\u00a0 In the one-off, non-scheduled maintenance or recovery, try leveraging ‘SCOM Agent Maintenance’ PowerShell commands on SCOM agents.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

SCOM Agent maintenance PowerShell commands<\/strong><\/h1>\n

cd “C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Monitoring Agent\\Agent”<\/p>\n

Import-module .\\MaintenanceMode.dll<\/p>\n

Start-SCOMAgentMaintenanceMode -Duration 10 -Reason PlannedOther<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

# Verify<\/p>\n

# If messages show with current timestamp, Agent objects are in maintenance.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

get-eventlog -LogName “Operations Manager” -newest 50 | ? { $_.Message -like “Suspending monitoring*”\u00a0 } | ft TimeGenerated,Message -autosize<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

TimeGenerated\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Message<\/p>\n

————-\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 ——-<\/p>\n

6\/25\/2020 8:37:57 AM Suspending monitoring for instance “modeldev” with id:”{F9E45AA4-7DF7-C1F1-70C9-5D76C9F2725C}” …<\/p>\n

6\/25\/2020 8:37:57 AM Suspending monitoring for instance “C:” with id:”{ED00048A-7DDC-D4BE-901D-D64DA281B7C6}” as the…<\/p>\n

6\/25\/2020 8:37:57 AM Suspending monitoring for instance “central_log” with id:”{EA619D69-D1CC-3B19-D93C-2E3FCD1409AE…<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

PS C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Monitoring Agent\\Agent> get-eventlog -LogName “Operations Manager” -newest 25 | ? { $_.Message -like “Resuming monitoring*”\u00a0 } | ft TimeGenerated,Message -autosize<\/p>\n

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343998 Jun 25 08:50\u00a0 Information HealthService\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 1073743040 Resuming monitoring for instance “modeldev” wit…<\/p>\n

343997 Jun 25 08:50\u00a0 Information HealthService\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 1073743040 Resuming monitoring for instance “C:” with id:”…<\/p>\n

343996 Jun 25 08:50\u00a0 Information HealthService\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 1073743040 Resuming monitoring for instance “central_log” …<\/p>\n

343995 Jun 25 08:50\u00a0 Information HealthService\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 1073743040 Resuming monitoring for instance “dnmll05s1.UNE…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When we talk about best practices for monitoring, this will typically include (SLA) Service Level Availability.\u00a0 SLA is an important piece in your environment, as uptime and happy customers come with a high SLA.\u00a0 There are some cases where IT Teams do work on demand.\u00a0 On-demand work is outside of a standard change window, a … Continue reading “SCOM Agent Maintenance”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,903,5,545,530],"tags":[31,907,904,218,219,905,234,235,342,906],"class_list":["post-20421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administration","category-agent","category-best-practice","category-powershell","category-scom","tag-agent","tag-availability","tag-dll","tag-maintenance","tag-maintenance-mode","tag-microsoft-monitoring-agent","tag-mm","tag-mma","tag-scom","tag-sla"],"yoast_head":"\nSCOM Agent Maintenance - 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