While I was building SMA runbooks in the past couple of months I bumped into this rather strange error. So happen few days ago, I tried to call (invoke) a child runbook, from a parent runbook function. SMA returned an error “Root element is missing” I simplified the structure so it looks like this… Function […]
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System Center – RSS Feeds Collection
It doesn’t matter If you are new to the System Center stack or if you have been working many years in the System Center field, we all share the same problem. How are we keeping up with this massive amount of information dropping in every single day? There are so many excellent sources out there […]
Orchestrator – Another Useful Runbook for SCOM 2012 SP 1
There are certain situations respectively alerts where you can not decide to override or not to override. You would like to see the alert for a certain time but then it should disappear after a short time. I think you know what I mean. I am talking about the informational alerts. Those alerts are somehow […]
Orchestrator 2012 SP1 – PowerShell 3.0, Run .Net Activity and Get-SCXAgent
New things are not always good things or at least old habits change. I had been working on some runbooks in Orchestrator 2012 SP1 and needed to run PowerShell 3.0 and the .Net Activity. I installed Orchestrator 2012 SP1 on Windows Server2008 R2 which has PowerShell 2.0 installed natively. Then I wanted to use the […]
Orchestrator – Getting Data from SCSM via SCORCH to SNMP to SCSM
In this post I would like to show how to interact with Service Manager objects to get information from SNMP devices and put data back into Service Manager. A customer needed a solution to get serial numbers from different network devices into his Service Manager form to have the most valuable data available for those […]
Orchestrator – Use Powershell (only) to Trigger Runbooks
Today I needed a solution which I could trigger a runbook using Powershell only. I found a very flexible and extendable solution on Codeplex.
SCOM 2012 – Maintenance Mode by Powershell, Orchestrator & SCOJobRunner
If you browse the web and you search for a solution to start maintenance mode in SCOM you will find many solutions. There are different approaches which are based on Powershell or Orchestrator but my intention was to to combine all of those and also utilize SCOJobRunner, Just for fun … The idea looks like […]
SCOM 2012 – Distribut Agents Evenly (50:50)
I am sure you have a small SCOM infrastructure containing 2 management servers and probably 1 SQL server. If you and your colleagues deploy SCOM agents on a daily basis it can easily happen that not all management servers receive the equal amount of agents. Maybe management server 1 has 300 agents to monitor and […]
SCORCH 2012 – SCOJob Runner Error “The requested operations requires Publish permissions on the Runbook”
There is a very cool and useful tool to trigger Runbooks from a command line. It is called SCOJobRunner and you can download it here. The tool uses the Orchestrator web service to interact with Runbooks. Well I had been playing around with it and then I hit the following error when I tried to start a […]
Reset Monitor using SCOM 2012 and Orchestrator – A must have Runbook
There is at least one Runbook each SCOM responsible must have. Are you wondering which? Well, I am sure you are always aware of what kind of alert you are closing. Is this alert beeing generated by a rule or by a monitor. If it is generated by a rule you just can close the […]