the operations manager notepad
With the new Azure Automation cmdlets I wrote about in the previous post we are now able to start runbooks from outside of Azure.
Here is an example how to start a runbook and also get the output from the runbook:
With the Azure Tool kit being updated last week we got a couple of cmdlets for Azure Automation, so now we are able to start, stop get jobs and so on from our runbooks in Azure Automation from on-premises.
Setting up a router for Hyper-V
System Center 2012 Operations Manager RTM – 7.0.8560.0
Over at the Hey Scripting Guy Blog Sean Kearney is filling in for Ed Wilson with a nice series of blog posts and tips on how to use Powershell in Orchestrator
Here is a collection of links to the posts:
Systems Center 2012 Orchestrator and PowerShell: Part 1
Systems Center 2012 Orchestrator and PowerShell: Part 2
Systems Center 2012 Orchestrator and PowerShell: Part 3
Here is a small powershell script for creating multiple subscribers from a CSV-file.
Announced in the Technet forum last week was the new ability to create a UNIX/Linux Shell Command Monitor. Download the file from here, run it and after importing the file called Microsoft.Unix.ShellCommand.Library.mpb you will be able to create a two and/or three state UNIX/Linux script monitor from within the Operations Manager console.
Connecting to a OpsMgr 2012 beta management server with a OpsMgr 2007 R2 console doesn’t work either does connecting with the 2012 beta console to a 2007 R2 RMS.
One nice features is the possibility to download MP’s from the Catalog in the OpsMgr Console.
I really like being able to download MP’s to disk, that way I can back up the actual .MP file. Not having to download a .MSI, installing it and remove it from Programs and Features / Add/Remove programs if I don’t want it there. What you don’t get when you download it from the Console is the Management Pack Guide, and that one needs to be read before importing the MP.
So, to get hold of the guide document from the Console you do as follows.
When installing the Web Console there is a couple of components that is required, the Operations Manager 2012 Supported Configuration (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh205990.aspx) list these:
Sometimes we have more than one Management Group (MG), production, test and maybe a development environment. When opening the Operations Manager Console it connects with the last MG you were connected to. This is controlled by the registry value SDKServiceMachine in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Microsoft Operations Manager\3.0\User Settings
In my mail today I found out that I have been awarded with the Microsoft Community Contributor Award.
I saw a question in the TechNet forum today on how to schedule Maintenance mode for Unix/Linux servers.
After some testing this powershell script came out, put it in the task scheduler to automate it, or even better put it in the Opalis policy that is taking care of your maintenance..
Ever wanted to now what rules, monitors and discoveries is running on the OpsMgr agent? I sure did..
In case anybody missed it, Opalis 6.3 is now RTM and ready to be downloaded. Here is the download links from the Opalis website
Download the free 180-day trial version of Opalis 6.3.
Download the Opalis 6.3 Upgrade Package (for customers with qualifying SMSE and SMSD licenses only).
Download the full Opalis 6.3 with 6.2.2 package (for customers with qualifying SMSE and SMSD licenses only).
I am right now deploying a lot of Gateway servers so to make the Gateway approval a little easier I wrote a little script.
There is probably some way of doing this even better, but here goes:
For us that wasn’t able to attend Microsoft TechEd Europe 2010 this year, here is a couple of recorded sessions on OpsMgr for us.
Word is that we will se Opalis 6.3 on 25th of November. Support for installing on Windows server 2008 and integration packs for more System Center products is the news there.
According to a post in the TechNet Forums there is some problems with the PinPoint MP catalog.
I see this question a lot in the technet forums:
It is now official, OpsMgr now supports SQL Server 2008 R2 read more here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2425714
I have a customer with a lot of SQL Agent Jobs that are being monitored on Job duration and after upgrading the SQL MP to 6.1.314.36 they didn’t get alerted when the SQL Agent Jobs was running for to long.
A new version of the Operations Manager Management Pack was released yesterday.
I couple of weeks ago I had the pleasure to beta test Dan Kregors tool OMWatcher. And I must say, this is a great tool that I will use at many customer sites…
When using a management pack designed to discover a 32bit application and that application is installed on a 64bit server OS the application will probably not get discovered.
When you try to edit Company Knowledge on a rule or a monitor you need Word installed from Office Professional, not standard professional! And then you need to install “Visual Studio Tools For Office runtime”. If you don’t have VSTOR installed you will get the following error:_
_ Visual Studio Tools For Office runtime is not installed.
When installing OpsMgr on SQL 2008 R2 the installation will not find the SQL instance and give the following error: Microsoft SQL Server is required. Please see details
Some times when installing X-plat agents you get an error:
When scheduling an Operations Manager PowerShell script you have to load the powershell snapins.
When downloading from MSDN/TechNet use the “Top download” if your product is available there. The download speed is higher.
Today when installing OpsMgr R2 agents on a couple of Solaris servers we ran in to a problem on the Solaris 9 servers.
Based on the data you get from the cmdlet get-agent you can list all agents with a specific setting.
I have been trying to fix an issue with a SQL 2008 cluster node restarting the Health Service every 10 minutes. Logging EventID: 6024 with the description:
RestartHealthService.js : Restarting Health Service. Health Service exceeded Process\Private Bytes threshhold.
I wrote a post about the name change of the Health Service in SCOM 2007 R2. Apparently there is a couple of more services that have changed name.
The guys over at http://www.systemcenterforum.org got a post about that: link
When importing a Management Pack directly from the Management Pack Catalog to OpsMgr 2007 R2 you don’t get the chance to read the MP documentation. Becouse you do the download and import of the MP at the same time.
Most of the Management Packs got pre-install instructions in the documentation that you want to read.
In OpsMgr 2007 R2 Microsoft seems to have changed name on the service running on the agent. From OpsMgr Health Service to System Center Management.
Don’t know if this is going to stick in the final product.
When installing the Operations Manager 2007 web console on Windows Server 2008 you need to install the following IIS components:
