Powershell script to create groups from an Excel file.

Powershell script to create groups from an Excel file.

Checks to see if a Windows service is configured to 'automatically restart' in case of service failure (service properties, Recovery tab). Use in a two-state monitor targeting a Windows operating system class. Script accepts one parameter - the name (not display name) of the Windows service. Works with OpsMgr 2007 or Essentials 2007 / 2010

by Olof Helge, this script can monitor files in a target directory and raise an alert if any file in the directory is older than a user-defined threshold. Designed to be used in OpsMgr or Essentials in a two-state monitor. See original SCC forum discussion HERE.

This script is a helper function to enable setting email addresses on notification devices in Operations Manager 2007. Can be used to update the email address of the currently on call administrator. Note you will need the out-log function from here.

A powershell script that can help you reduce "monitoring noise" created by the "manual reset" monitors.

This sample powershell script locates failed monitors that have no workflow for "success" state and resets the monitor after a predefined delay.

This document contains a conveniently formatted source of command line syntax for Windows Server 2008 Core, and includes both RTM and R2 commands. It started out as a convenient source for my own reference, but after sharing with a few colleagues, they suggested I share.In any event, it makes for a handy offline reference if you've not memorized all the configuration commands for server core.

We see from time to time posts on Security Events that are collected in the Security Logs

Seven Winds has seen once too often that support teams miss heartbeat failures. We created a tool to assist the monitoring team to easily catch these events and create an audio and visual alert to grab their attention.

by Kris Bash, automated solution including a PowerShell script that puts nodes (and clusters, if applicable) in maintenance mode when used as part a

by, Kris Bash, A vbs script (as a .txt file) for use in a SCOM unit monitor to locally check the status of a listening TCP port.

This is a PowerPoint presentation on “AD Integration for Large Environments in System Center OpsMgr 2007”, presented by Pete Zerger at the System Center Solutions Summit in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Here's another great community solution for automated maintenance mode. In this case, J. Greg extended Derek Harkins 'Maintenance Mode without OpsMgr Admin Rights" solution to automate maintenance mode during monthly patch management.

This is a tool we originally released on systemcenterforum.org designed to run on the Essentials server or SCOM RMS to do one thing - export all management packs. Since the MP2XMLDumper.exe written by Clive errors out on the SCE 2010 platform, this is the best way to export MPs for deeper investigation today.

It allows you to start Maintenance Mode from an monitored server using just a vbscript. Using this requires absolutely no permissions in Operations Manager. The MaintMode.vbs writes an event to the event log that indicates the length of time Maintenance Mode should remain on. This is picked up by the management pack and processed on the RMS to turn on Maintenance Mode for that server. The on time can be specified in days, hours or minutes.

by Bob Messer and David Scheltens, this script, designed for use in an OpsMgr two-state monitor, will alert on databases not based up within a user-defined threshold.

by Andreas "Tenchuu" Wackenhut, when run from OpsMgr Command Shell, this script returns top rule and monitor generated alerts.

David Wallis of the U.K (www.wallis2000.co.uk) has written an application, called the SCOM Email Service, that allows Operations Manager 2007 administrators to acknowledge and resolve alerts via email.

This is the sample Process Monitoring script referenced in the "HOW-TO Create a 2-State Script Monitor" tutorial for OpsMgr and Essentials 2007. Use as a learning tool only, not for production environments.