SCOM Platform in 5 minutes. Part 2: Classes and inheritance.

In the previous part “SCOM Platform in 5 minutes. Part 1: Health Model“, we learned that for each monitoring entity, SCOM creates a hierarchical Health Model to represent a structure of the top level entity and its components (to a certain level of details). Because all nodes in Health Model may represent different type of components,… Read More

Extending SCOM Console UI (continue)

Part 2. An extended transcript of my session @ SCOMathon 2021. I hope the demo from the first part demonstrated how easy you can add new views to SCOM Console. With just few lines of code and some time spent in forms designer we created not just a simple static extension, but also demonstrated access… Read More

Extending SCOM Console UI

Part 1. An extended transcript of my session @ SCOMathon 2021. Links for this article: SCOMathon 2021: https://scomathon.com/scomathon-2021-1 SCOMathone @ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/scomathon/ SquaredUp: https://squaredup.com/ GitHub repository for the demo project in this article: https://github.com/MaxxVolk/SCOMathon.UIExtension.Demo GitHub repository with a base library to simplify development of managed modules and Console UI extensions: https://github.com/MaxxVolk/Maximus.Base.Library Tools: Visual Studio (any… Read More

Manifest, or why I think SCOM platform is hugely underestimated.

Many of you, my readers, already know what System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) is. But did you really know what it is? Note, this article assume the readers have deep knowledge about SCOM platform mechanics. If you’re looking for a rocket boost in your SCOM knowledge, subscribe to my “SCOM in 5 minutes” series. First… Read More

Day-to-day admin task automation with SCOM Console extension.

Summary.This article introduces SCOM tasks, and agent tasks in particular. Finds them powerful, but not yet convenient to use. And finally, introduces a solution: an open-source management pack, full of powerful tasks, but also with a user friendly UI to run them and display results. Part One: SCOM Tasks. SCOM is always counted as a… Read More

Implementing SCOM Managed Modules. Part 3.

First part: https://maxcoreblog.com/2020/07/23/implementing-scom-managed-modules-part-1/ Second part: https://maxcoreblog.com/2020/08/05/implementing-scom-managed-modules-part-2/ Multiple Instances. In the past examples, the rules and the monitors target a class, which has singular instance per SCOM Agent. In other words (under usual circumstances), one SCOM Agent monitors single Windows Computer. The next experiment aiming to answer another question: how many instances of a managed module… Read More

Implementing SCOM Managed Modules. Part 2.

First part: https://maxcoreblog.com/2020/07/23/implementing-scom-managed-modules-part-1/ In the first part, a simplest probe action managed module was created to investigate SCOM managed modules live cycle. For that purpose, the module was fit with excessive logging for very each step. Initial testing scenario was: deploy the MP with the test probe action module, let it run two times, then… Read More