I have put together a quick and dirty powershell script that will convert all HEX values from an SNMP Walk in SCOM 2012 .  It can be optimized, but as is, it runs pretty fast and clean. If you want to dump all of the SNMP OIDs from a discovered device in SCOM 2012, you [...]

Hi All, This week sees the start of a new MVP Speaker Series covering Windows Server and System Center technologies.  Many of the presentations will be sessions that couldn’t be accommodated at MMS, and others will be brand new, but they will all be available online for everyone to attend through the use of Lync! For [...]

One of the features I love in the Visual Studio Authoring Extensions is IncludeFileContent.  This feature enables you to include script files into a management pack, without needing to write the script with the relevant XML tags such as <ScriptBody>. In MP development up to now, you would need to write your script in the [...]

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There has been a very useful TechNet Wiki page posted that lists all the currently available management packs, and the relevant links to download them.  The page also includes all management packs currently in pre-release that are due for release in the near future.  As this is a wiki page, it can be easily updated [...]

Over the years there has been a number of management packs from Microsoft that have left some customer wanting, with both the level of monitoring and knowledge provided within them.  That being said, over time the quality of most management packs has improved, but not at the pace everyone had hoped for, and every now [...]

One of the proposed Birds-of-a-Feather (BOF) sessions at MMS is “Cloud and Datacenter Management Roundtable”. This BOF session is for System Center SME’s, the Cloud and Datacenter MVP’s and product team to roundtable discuss all items in the Cloud and Datacenter management space (basically everything other than Configuration Manager). If you have a question about [...]

Using the Visual Studio Authoring Extensions to build your management packs, one extremely useful piece of functionality is the ability to create multiple rules/monitors/discoveries/tasks/views etc. using management pack template groups.  The reason this functionality is so good is because: 1.  Easy to Create Working with Visual Studio will put a lot of IT Pro’s off [...]

Sorry guys, found a small bug in the 2012 version of the OpsMgr Self Maintenance MP I posted yesterday. it’s been fixed now. the bug was related to the LocalizedText DB table monitor. please download it again if you’ve already downloaded it. the new version number of the 2012 version of the MP is now [...]

Cameron Fuller did a great job of documenting the process of pulling in Veeam nworks CI’s from Operations Manager here. One additional step that is required for reporting is to author a management pack that will create views in the Service Manager data warehouse, where you should be doing your reporting. I have written a [...]