Free SCSM, SCOM, DPM Tools for the Community

Wow what an exciting week in the System Center space! Lately there has been several free tools released for various System Center products in the community. I wanted to mention them here in one blog. Service Manager: Advanced Send Mail This one is very cool and something that has been needed for some time. Big … Read more

Enable Proxy as SCOM Console Task

Here comes another post about a console task. This time it is in SCOM. I have been doing something for a while that makes life a little bit easier. What I do is add a console task to SCOM that enables proxy on monitored servers when it is launched.

NOTE: For a discussion on why you would enable proxy on monitored servers visit this link:

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/systemcenter/en-US/a373b34d-9b01-486c-a4f2-4b1f19bea46e/why-enable-scom-proxy-agent-?forum=operationsmanagergeneral

The nice thing about this console task is that it searches through monitored servers, finds the ones that do not have proxy enabled, enables them and then outputs who they are. This is possible thanks to a tool that Mark Manty of Microsoft built called SetAgentProxyEnabled. You can find that tool here:

http://blogs.technet.com/b/markmanty/archive/2012/02/02/automate-setting-allow-agent-to-act-as-proxy-on-scom-agents.aspx

Here is the process I use to add this tool as a console task in SCOM.

  • Create a windows share on one of the management servers. I call it something like SCOMTasks.
  • Extract the tool into this share.
  • In SCOM navigate to Authoring>Management Pack Objects>Tasks.
  • Right click on Tasks and select Create a new Task.
  • In the Create Task Wizard expand Console Tasks and select Command line. Select or create a new management pack to store this task in and click Next.

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New Dashboard for SCOM 2012

There is another cool solution from Coretech. Coretech has recently released a new Dashboard for SCOM 2012. This dashboard does a good job of presenting the health of your Business and IT Service in an easy to see format. It gives you a single place to show the health of the Distributed Applications and the … Read more

System Center Universe Jedi finalists

Earlier this week System Center Universe announced the 3 finalists for the SCU Jedi contest. If you don’t know what the contest is here is the description for it: System Center Universe has a contest to give one lucky presenter the opportunity to present at the next System Center Universe conference. This lucky presenter will … Read more

MVP Cameron Fuller Presenting at SysCTR MN User Group

This month the Minnesota System Center User Group will have System Center MVP  Cameron Fuller presenting "Monitoring and tuning System Center with SCOM".  For those of you not familiar with Cameron, he is a Operations Manager Most Valuable Professional (MVP).  A Principal consultant for Catapult Systems, an IT consulting company and Microsoft Gold Certified Partner. … Read more

Cireson SM Outlook Console and new Veeam MP Released

  This is an exciting week for System Center! Today Cireson has released the SCSM Outlook Console. This tool lets you work with Service Manager from Outlook. Here is what you can do with it: create, view, edit, and complete incidents, changes requests, problems, activities, and service requests. Here is a link to it on … Read more

SCOM SMS Notifications not working

ISSUE: We had a physical Multi-Tech Systems MTCMR-H5 modem connected to the SCOM server via USB to send out SMS messages. After initial configuration SMS notifications were not being sent. SCOM was generating multiple alerts about this. The alerts: Alert: Failed to send notification using server/device Source: Alert Notification Subscription Server Path: Not Present Last … Read more

Update Rollup 3 for System Center 2012 Service Pack 1

Today Microsoft has released Update Rollup 3 for System Center 2012 Service Pack 1. This update applies to the following:: App Controller 2012 Service Pack 1 Data Protection Manager 2012 Service Pack 1 Operations Manager 2012 Service Pack 1 Virtual Machine Manager 2012 Service Pack 1 It can be downloaded here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2836751/en-us

Integration points for System Center SP1

Microsoft recently update the Integration points for System Center map for Service Pack 1. The map is a diagram that illustrates the integration points between all the technologies in the System Center stack. Here is what the map looks like:   This can be downloaded here: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=36429