I'm currently having a tough time using $Data/Context/Value$ in other modules.

What I try to do is using a rule/monitor that collects performance data and I then want to forward it into a write action. However, I can't get it to work no matter how I configure it.

Anyone ever tried to do that? I know I can use that wildcard in the alert parameters but for some reason I can't forward it into a powershell write action.

Another question.

Why when you create a new MP are the 2 LanguagePacks created (ENU,ENS)?

Are both LanguagePacks needed and if only one is required which one?

I have a problem when I create a Knowledge Base it is just saved into the one LanguagePack and when you run the BPA it complains that it is not in the other LanguagePack.

If both is required is there a way to sync the 2 LanguagePacks?

Any help would be appreciated.

Robert

For one of our client requirement by using operations manager we need to monitor entries in database tables and raise alerts for each entry, Quite similar to log file monitoring.

Please let me know is there any way to achieve this?

Regards,

-Brijesh

Script: Query Value from SQL Database (for 2-state monitor)

Script: Query Value from SQL Database and Log Event

How to create a Script-based 2-State Monitor (This should help you implement script  first script)

I want to take Steve Ross "OpsMgr Event Correlation – Branch Site Monitoring" solution, and create something a bit more sophisticated that could be used safely in a production environment. This is a  neat idea, but I'd like to create something a bit more structed and stable.

Would love your thoughts and opinions - the more heads the better. Would like to create a  solution that: 

• Doesn't use a WMI ping script (but something more reliable)
• Uses aggregate rollup monitor magic with diagnostics and recoveries to automate "maintenance mode ON" and "maintenance mode OFF"
• Overridable parameters to allow tuning of default maintenance mode window (and anything else that requires tuning)
• Perhaps a way to script / automate grouping of agents at a site (based on subnet)
• Possibly a report to show "what's in maintenance mode now"

That's it! Would love to hear your thoughts online or offline.Anyone who contributes will get authoring credits in a presentation we'll be doing to the community in April...

But my main question was: What would you really want to put into Maintenance Mode and why? To avoid an alert storm when a branch goes offline I guess?

I need info on how to use the module Microsoft.SystemCenter.WebApplication.UrlProbe

I need to be able to log into the web, moniotr responce time, check for errors.

Can anybody point me in the correct direction, samples ext.

thanks

Robert

I also wrote a health state monitor using this same mechanism, in that a powershell script connects to my app and returns the state of the instance of the device it was queried about (should use cookdown, but haven't got arount to figuring how to do that yet with a powershell script, most examples are with vbscript modules).

I have recently added a performance monitor (percent of bandwidth utilization per interface) targeted at instances of this device class again using a powershell script.

My question is that I would like to only target performance monitoring for instances of my class that are in a healthy state. Can I do this via an override? How? I can probably access the health state of the targeted instance in the powershell script so that it does not go out and attempt to contact my app for performance data. How do I get this info in powershell? as part of my parameters I pass in such things as $Target/Property[Type="System!System.Entity]/DisplayName$, where would I access current state?

I am a relatively naive newbie with this stuff so please go easy on me.

Thanks

I have started experimenting using the SCOM SDK using C# in visual studio. It looks great. Well documented on MSDN. There seems to be obvious methods to basically get at anything that SCOM knows. I will probably implement my performance monitor filter in powershell using the SDK to find the health state not sure exactly how to get that . Also, another question is it possible to use the SDK in powershell without going through compiling C# code on the fly like Tenchuu MP does?

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Also, when using the SDK you get a connection the management server in the MSDN and Tenchuu's example by calling managementGroup = new ManagementGroup("localhost");

Which works for me but if I try it on a remote machine using the Ops Manager machine name it throws an exception "UnauthorizedManagementAccessMonitoringException". "The user xxdomainname\\xxusername does not have sufficient permission to perform the operation" what can I do to allow my remote machine permissions to access the SDK?

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found the answer to the issue of connecting from a remote machine need to add user to scom and then use ManagementGroup.Connect method with user credentials

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb437582.aspx

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb437619.aspx

Thanks

Compiling C# code in PowerShell on the fly is just cool but not really necessary. We once had a situation where we needed to implement an async. callback which is not supported in PowerShell, hence the "compile-on-the-fly" stuff.

You can easily access the SDK from PowerShell (or any other .NET assembly for that matter) like this:

## load SDK assemblies
[System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("Microsoft.EnterpriseManagement")
[System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("Microsoft.EnterpriseManagement.Configuration")
[System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("Microsoft.EnterpriseManagement.ConnectorFramework")
[System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("Microsoft.EnterpriseManagement.Monitoring")

## connect to management group
$ManagementGroup = New-Object Microsoft.EnterpriseManagement.ManagementGroup($RMS)
$ManagementGroup.Reconnect()

...

Also take a look at my blog post I posted some time ago: http://www.code4ward.net/main/Blog/tabid/70/EntryId/12/Set-NotificationForAlert.aspx

The above post is basically obsolete but it still shows how to do C# style SDK code in PowerShell. I'm sure you'll find many other samples around the interwebs...

The big problem using SDK in your rules and monitors is, that the code needs to run with a user member of OpsMgr administrators role.
 
cheers,
Stefan

First one is you utilize the SDK in your powershell script to determine the health state of your target instance before you proceed collecting the performance data.

Number two, you create a recovery tasks when your istance gets unhealthy to create an adhoc override todisable the performance collection rule and whe your instance is getting healthy again you delete the override again.

Andi posted a great sample a while ago: http://www.systemcentercentral.com/BlogDetails/tabid/143/IndexID/32955/Default.aspx

cheers,
Stefan
http://www.code4ward.net

At any rate did you have a solution?