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Bulk Creating Overrides in VSAE

Posted by Tao Yang on 20/06/2013 in SCOM | ∞

At work, in one of the OpsMgr 2007 management groups, we have 3 sets of Australian state / territory based computer groups. Let’s say they are App-A, App-B, and All computers groups. so each state has 3 computer groups (i.e. NSW App-A, NSW App-B and NSW All Computers). By default, for computer groups, the Health [...]

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OpsMgr Weather Monitoring MP Updated

Posted by Tao Yang on 16/03/2013 in SCOM | ∞

I got an email from someone up in Sweden the other day in regards to the Weather Monitoring MP that I released few months ago. I’ve been made aware that a negative temperature reading is being recorded as a positive value (i.e. –8 degrees is being collected as 8 degrees). First of all, apologies for [...]

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“PowerShell Script failed to run” alert in OpsMgr 2012

Posted by Tao Yang on 04/03/2013 in SCOM | ∞

Don’t you hate it when you’ve just released a piece of work to public and you found an issue with it? Well, this is what happened to me today. Yesterday and released the OpsMgr Self Maintenance MP, and today, I found an issue with the 2012 version. After the MP is imported and the “OpsMgr [...]

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Monitoring Weather Conditions – Using SCOM

Posted by Tao Yang on 25/10/2012 in SCOM | ∞

16-03-2013: This MP has been updated. the download link in this article has been updated. Details of the update can be found here. Background Back in July this year, one day I was playing with PowerShell and discovered using New-WebProxyService to get various information from http://www.webservicex.net. I then had an idea to write a SCOM [...]

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MP Authoring: Targeting RMS or MS?

Posted by Tao Yang on 05/09/2012 in SCOM | ∞

I’m writing a write action module for a management pack that I’m currently working on. This module contains a PowerShell script that connects to SCOM SDK service and interacts with agent computers. I originally wrote the script and planed to target the workflow to the RMS. which I thought it would make sense because SDK [...]

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SCCM 2007 Client Management Pack Updated

Posted by Tao Yang on 12/08/2012 in SCCM, SCOM | ∞

I received an email this morning regarding to the SCCM 2007 Client Management Pack that I wrote few months ago. Someone pointed out it had some issues in the language packs section of the MP. I had a look and realised the TYANG.System.Center.Configuration.Manager.2007.Monitoring.mp does have some orphaned string resources. A bit background of this MP. [...]

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Hyper-V Cluster Virtual Machines Current Cluster Node SCOM Monitor

Posted by Tao Yang on 14/07/2012 in SCOM | ∞

First of all, apologies for not updating this blog for over a months. Life has been pretty busy outside of work. My wife gave birth to our first child a months ago and I’ve been flat out looking after our little girl Rosie . Apart from enjoying every moment with the little one while I’m at home, [...]

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Using SCOM To Count Logs and Produce Reports

Posted by Tao Yang on 27/04/2012 in SCOM | ∞

Recently, I’ve been asked twice to produce daily reports involves counting some kind of logs: Scenario 1: The support team need to count number of Application event log entries of events with a specific event ID. A daily report is required to list the number for each computer. Scenario 2: An application produces a log [...]

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System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) 2007 Client Management Pack for SCOM

Posted by Tao Yang on 04/03/2012 in SCCM, SCOM | ∞

12/08/2012: This MP has been updated. Please refer to this post for more details of the update. The download link in this post has also been updated. Background Over the time, I have seen some issues and challenges for SCCM administrators to effectively and proactively managing SCCM clients.  I have personally seen and experienced some [...]

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SCOM: Monitoring an Interactive Process and The Recovery Task

Posted by Tao Yang on 28/01/2012 in SCOM | ∞

Recently I’m working on a management pack for a series of apps for a business unit of my employer. There is a large number of processes that I need to monitor and they run interactively on the console session. Auto Admin Logon is enabled on these servers, when the server starts up, it automatically logged [...]

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