QuickTricks: How to bulk uninstall agents in OpsMgr 2012 by name in PowerShell (#SCOM, #PowerShell, #SYSCTR)
The following is a quick PowerShell script which uninstalls agents based upon matching a naming convention. This example identifies a…
Does-It-Work-In-OM12? xSNMP Management Packs (#SCOM, #SYSCTR)
Topic: xSNMP Download location: http://xsnmp.codeplex.com/ Issues: The NetworkDevice class which xSNMP was built on for OpsMgr 2007 was depreciated in…
Veeam MP: Free 10 Sockets for SCOM 2012 customers
Just a note that Veeam is offering their Management Pack for SCOM including 10 sockets Free for the SC…
Low memory/not enough memory may cause System Center 2012 – Operations Manager to fail while installing the Data Warehouse Configuration
I needed to create an Operations Manager server to test something. I created a virtual machine on my Hyper-V server…
QuickTricks: Can a Gateway be a member of a resource pool or is a pool limited to only management servers?
Answer: Yes, a Gateway can be a member of a resource pool. Screenshots below show the membership of the Operations…
QuickTricks: How do I find the reporting URL in OpsMgr? (#SCOM, #SYSCTR)
Open the Operations Manager Console, in the Administration pane under settings and reporting. Copy the URL from this section and…
Marnix Wolf’s blog series on System Center 2012 Licensing (#SYSCTR)
Marnix Wolf provided an excellent perspective on licensing in System Center 2012 in a series of blog posts – check…
SCOM 2012 – How to Chain Gateways
In some cases, it may be necessary to chain multiple gateways together in order to monitor across multiple untrusted boundaries.…
SharePoint OOTB Features – updated
If your anything like me then you leverage PowerShell to do a lot of repetitive tasks. On of the most…
Creating a map with server locations in OpsMgr 2012 (#SCOM, #SYSCTR)
There are two new dashboards which use the new SCOMLocation information to provide information for Web Application Availability Monitoring. Summary…