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In SCOM 2016 work has been done to be able to scale up to higher numbers for this. Up to twice as much actually IF you use another monitoring method for cross platform monitoring. I will show you what I mean below.
In SCOM 2012 we were using WSMAN Sync API's to connect to the Linux agents and pull data from them. This is also the default setting for SCOM 2016.
However if you have a large Linux/Unix deployment that you wish to monitoring using SCOM 2016 there is a registry key you can set on the management server which will change the behavior of monitoring to use ASync MI API's. MI in this case stands for Windows Management Infrastructure which is based on CIM standards (the SCOM OMI agent is as well).
In order to get the SCOM management servers to use the new method (and thus scale up more!) you add a registry key to the management server which is monitoring the cross-platform agents.
Create this entry:
HKLM:\Software\Microsoft\Microsoft Operations Manager\3.0\Setup\UseMIAPI
After you do this I suggest you restart the Microsoft Monitoring Agent Service (also called the Healthservice) to be sure this goes into effect. Make sure all your management servers used for this purpose use the same method.
I think if you are monitoring a significant number of Linux/Unix agents in your environment (hundreds) that you change this setting on your SCOM 2016 management servers.
Happy crossplat monitoring!
Bob Cornelissen
The way we often used to tune out alerts and management packs was by a few methods. The first method is to import the management packs and sit back and see the alerts flowing in and taking them on one at a time.
The second method was by using reporting:
The two Data Volume reports are actually very useful in going through which management packs cause the most data volume (number of performance counter entries collected, number of alerts, number of events….). And they have possibility to drill down into them as well to see which workflows are the busy ones. After this you could go into SCOM and find the rules and monitors and tune them to your liking.
There are also reports in the SCC Health Check Reports library created by Oskar Landman and Pete Zerger which we can use for this. It is called SCOM Health Check Reports V3 now and can be found in the Technet Gallery.
Now in order to facilitate alert tuning for you the product team has worked on a custom solution to help you analyze the alerts and which machines cause the most of this and tune the workflows directly from there.
Starting SCOM 2016 TP5 Tech Preview you can now go into the SCOM Administration pane and in the Management Packs folder you will find "Tune Management Packs" now.
To the right hand side in the tasks pane you will find "Identify management packs to tune" where you can set a time range for analysis. Otherwise just wait 2 days and things will surface.
Now in the middle we see I currently have one management pack which may need tuning and it has given us 32 alerts in a limited amount of time. SO we press the "Tune Alerts" task now!
From here we can see which alert(s) came up during this period. To the right of what is in this screenshot there is also the name of the Rule or Monitor which caused this alert.
Now which possibilities do we have from here? If we right-click we get the following options:
The Copy function will give you the possibility to have a clear text cop of the selected fields so you can put them in a notepad or Excel sheet.
The Overrides option gives you the usual overrides options where you can override the monitor for all objects of this class or a group or single objects.
Of course we can directly open the properties for the monitor right from here.
ANd lastly there is the option to "View or overrides sources" which will open up a popup where you can see which instances of the targetted class (here Logical Disk) have caused the alerts.
From here we can tune the selected monitor for the specific objects which caused the alerts.
As I said at the start of the article, these are screenshots on TP5 preview and there may be changes to come to the interface and possibilities presented here.
The idea is however very clear and I like that this will help a lot of SCOM admins move into the tuning of alerts easier and quicker. Some people know how to do this using available reports both from the default reports or third party reports packs, but this new feature opens this up for more regular use by more SCOM admins.
One more remark here: I tried to fool around with another monitor to force it to give lots of alerts and what happens? Another monitor causes alerts and the one I set to very low thresholds never even fired an alert. ha ha ha ha ha ha.]]>
Good luck playing with the new releases
I have started with the SCOM 2016 TP5 myself of course
Bob Cornelissen]]>
All SCOM admins know that we can get management packs from either the Microsoft websites (and of course community and third party pages for their management packs), or we could use the Import Management Packs option and point it to the Catalog.
In there we have the options of looking for specific management packs, or to look for recently released management packs, or look for updates to already installed management packs.
Thing is that it was easy to forget to look for new management pack updates, and also it often happened that SCOM admins forgot to download management packs for new products they did install on servers in their environment (or new versions like a new SQL version).
In SCOM 2016 we can see in the Administration pane an entry under Management Packs called Updates and Recommendations:
From here we can select one management pack and download and install that management pack. There is also the possibility to do that with all of them. This will take you to the management pack download interface we were used to already.
As you can see from above screenshot there are a few management packs where we get an update recommendation, and two management packs this solution found to be missing if you thought you were already monitoring all roles.
What happens really is that this is a mini management pack which runs on all your agents and has very basic discoveries in it. It runs a discovery to see if you have for instance IIS or SQL installed or a number of other roles. These are looking for Microsoft management packs and not custom ones. When it finds certain software/roles installed this feature will check if you have the applicable management pack installed. There will be more discoveries added over time for additional software/features/roles over time.
Also of course there is a pack version comparison done with the catalog to check if you have the latest version of already installed management packs.
Another interesting addition to the tasks pane in that view above is the possibility to go to the management pack guide. This option will take you right to the download of the management pack guide in a web browser.
The second option there is to go to the DLC page. This is the Microsoft download center page where you can find the description of the management pack, its downloads and guides, and installation instructions. Not all management packs have this link enabled, but a lot of them will have.
The last task is called More Information. Now this is also a nice one. It will open a popup and show you which agents are running a workload relating to this management pack recommendation.
In this case it is my freshly installed SCOM TP5 machine needing the SQL 2014 management pack.
This is going to help us manage our management packs and check for updates to currently loaded management packs and also to check for forgotten management packs to get as much monitoring coverage as we can.
Good luck monitoring!
Bob Cornelissen
The trick is to restart the SDK service and quickly enter the production key.
Just open a normal PowerShell in administrator mode on the SCOM server and throw these three commands in there:
restart-service -name omsdk
import-module operationsmanager
set-scomlicense -productid XYZXX-XYZXX-XYZXX-XYZXX-XYZXX -confirm:$false
Of course use the real product key in there where the X's are!
Have fun and good luck!
Bob Cornelissen
Following is the situation. A number of servers monitored by another company and using another monitoring product. That product monitors servers from several customers of theirs, so we can not directly access it. We could not access or query the product directly either through scripts or commands or database queries. So in the end the result was that the other company would send e-mails from their several monitoring systems to one of our mailboxes. Resulting in 3 e-mails every 15 minutes. The e-mails contained an XML formatted body containing a list of servers and their state.
SO let us start with the first part
Using Orchestrator to get our e-mails into an XML file
I bet there are also other methods of doing this, but this was the method I selected and due to Orchestrator having some flexibility and some built-in actions in the intelligence packs this is very versatile.
Let us check out the email for a second:
We see the XML body there. In this case there are two servers mentioned in the email, however with longer names than how we know them so we need to play around with that too. Also with XML there is a header (first line) and a wrapper (second line start and end of last line), with the two actual content lines in the middle of it. Notice there are carriage returns and also spaces and potential tabs in there, which make it "nice" to filter those out while pulling the XML apart and creating a new XML file from that!
Ingredients needed:
First import the Orchestrator IP needed to read the email and distribute it to the runbook servers as usual. Next start a fresh runbook and name it appropriately and place it in a folder where you can actually find it within Orchestrator. Advice is to use a clear folder structure within Orchestrator to place your runbooks in. This is not for the benefit of Orchestrator, but for yours!
Now we create the runbook. I will put the picture of the finished runbook here first before going through the activities:
Let's now cut up the pieces:
Monitor Date/Time
Well this one simply says to check every 15 minutes
Format Date/Time
This one takes the current time from the first activity and at the bottom there subtracts 15 minutes from it. The story behind this is that we want to read all emails which came in between now and 15 minutes ago. So this gives us that point in time.
Rename File
We wanted our monitored xml file to always have a fixed name. So when we are about to create a new version of that file we first go out to that file share and take the current XML file and rename it by adding a date-time format in the name to make it unique. We wanted to be able to look back in history here, else we would have chosen to just delete it. This makes the folder look like this:
Read mail from folder
Now this is a custom activity coming from the Exchange Email IP we imported earlier.
From the top we see we have to define a configuration. We will get back to that in a second. Next you can see that we are looking for Unread emails in a certain folder (keep in mind folder name must be unique in that mailbox else it just takes the other one, which you did not want to). Now on the left hand side we see Filters:
We also want those emails to have a certain subject line. And we want those emails to be received after the time from the Format Date/Time activity above. Meaning the email was received after 15 minutes ago. So in the last 15 minutes.
Now to get back to the Configuration part. Many IP's in Orchestrator have a place where you can centrally set some parameters. For instance a login account, a server connection, and so on. This can be found on the top menu bar of the Orchestrator Runbook Designer under the Options menu. Find the item with the same name as the IP you are trying to configure. In this case it needs us to setup a connection to an email server. Type is Exchange Server, type a username, password, domain, and a ServiceURL. For an exchange server this could be https://webmail.domain.com/EWS/Exchange.asmx for example, but check this for your own environment.
Retry Read mail from folder
This one will only run if the first read mail from folder activity fails. You can set properties on those connecting arrows between the activities to make it go here it the first one fails. I made the line color red and set a delay on the line of 20 seconds. Else it will follow the other line and go to the script. This activity does exactly the same as the previous one. We had some time-outs during certain times so this extra loop slipped in there.
So those Read mail from folder activities should contain 3 e-mails received in the last 15 minutes from that folder, unread, with a subject line, and Orchestrator now knows what the body of those emails contains. This also means that the next activity (the script) will run three times.
Run .net script
At the top we define this to be a PowerShell script. So first we pull in the variable, which is the body of the email from the previous step. Next thing we do in the script is remove all excess stuff that we do not need. Empty spaces before and after several lines and entries. Also we will take out those headers and surrounding entries. We can add them ourselves to a clean file, right? SO this should give us a new string which only contains the XML entries for those servers with their state.
Next thing we needed to do is build in some tricks into this script. We know it is going to run three times and we need to stitch the contents together into one file.
Line of thought:
If there is no xml file there to write to this means this is the first time we run the script after the old file got renamed. So we need to create the xml file right now and add the headers to it. Next we add the body to it (server names with state).
If there is a file there with the correct name it means we are either in the second or third run. So what we do is simply write down the body (servers and state) and add the trailing end tag to it. This can be done on the second and third run. However, if this happens to be the third run, we will first check if that trailing tag is there and remove it. And next dump the body again and add the end tag.
So that part takes care of dumping the contents into the file following the above thought process (with the first thought coming at the end as the Else statement). Sorry for the Dutch comments, but you get the idea.
Move mail
Next we take the e-mails found by the Read mail from folder activity and move them to the other folder in the mailbox.
So, that is the whole runbook to get a few emails and merge them together so we can monitor the thing!
There is a separate runbook which cleans old files from that file share and which cleans old emails from that folder in the mailbox by the way. At least we can look a few days back what happened.
The monitoring part in SCOM
Now I am not going into all the details of this part. I had a reason to not link these entries directly to the monitored servers, or to write the xml file to those servers. I opted to create a watcher node (and its discovery from a registry entry on that machine). That watcher node is the server with that file share and the xml file on it.
Next I created watchers in a class, and discovered them through registry as well. Containing the names of the servers we wanted to check for in the XML.
For each watcher it runs a PowerShell monitor which goes into the XML file and finds its corresponding entry (server name). Next it picks up the State (which is a number) and we translate the 12 possible numbers into green/yellow/red type entries and place them into the property bag. That gets evaluated into the three states we know so well.
Next we could throw those watcher entries for each server and also some other entries onto a dashboard. We could see the state the other party saw from their monitoring system and the state we see from SCOM side on one dashboard for those servers and monitored entries. We have the hardware/OS layer with a few extras, and they have an OS layer and application layers which we could not pick up.
As you can see sometimes we run into situations where there is no other way to get monitoring data than through workarounds and the long way. This is not ideal. As you can understand there is dependencies left and right for this whole chain to work. If there is no other way then that is the way it has to be. Direct monitoring or direct connecting is preferred.
But this shows how you can get monitoring data from e-mails into SCOM, in this case through the use of Orchestrator and watchers because that was what we needed.
Shout-out to amongst others Cameron Fuller for making me write this post!
Happy monitoring!
Bob Cornelissen
Kevin Holman writes about it here:
So would hold off until a newer version comes out (hopefully soon) and please check it in your test environment before you let it hit production. A lot of other packs have references to Base-OS packs so it is hard to remove it when something goes wrong.
Good luck!
Bob Cornelissen
Check out the blog post from the DPM team here for more information:
Have fun backing up your stuff!
Bob Cornelissen
Today the new version of their VMWare monitoring management pack was released. It contains updated views and dashboards. The new style dashboards also were augmented with a few core dashboards:
Also there is an expanded set of reports. The combination gives better and quicker insights into the VMWare environment in order to troubleshoot issues and to proactively find upcoming issues.
Now as some of you probably know I have always been a big fan of a competing vendors management pack for VMWare (Veeam) and I still am. However it is good that a few other vendors have been looking seriously at creating a good management pack which can cover this monitoring scenario. I know a few have been working on this and are becoming serious contenders when it comes to product selection for this purpose. The Bridgeways pack will be one of them now in every selection process. Especially when there is a price difference to be found between solutions our customers (and you) will be looking at price/quality points and if it covers that what you are initially looking for. I know all my customers always look at price very closely and I do not think its a pure Dutch thing to do that.
I will be examining functionality and pro's and con's of these packs closely in the future.
So for now congratulations to Bridgeways for taking the step forward and we are watching you closely
For any questions regarding this article or any management packs feel free to contact me.
Bob Cornelissen
The KB article for System Center
The products receiving the update are:
Do not forget to test first and to read the KB articles of whatever you are upgrading.
Have fun!
Bob Cornelissen
Read more through this link:
There are a number of known issues for instance after upgrading Orchestrator from a previous version. Lets start with the first:
The Orchestration Console cannot be opened after upgrading to System Center 2012 R2
Error Executing the current operation
Arguments: NotFound
The SQL statement to run is included in the KB article above.
Next thing to check while you are there right now is in SQL mgmt Studio click to the database - security and find the Orchestrator service account used to connect to the database. Make sure it is assigned the DB_owner role.
Web Services
On the Orchestrator web server go into the IIS manager. You will two websites relating to Orchestrator. Click each website and next select the "Basic Settings" button. Make sure the websites are not using the default applicationpool but the "System Center 2012 Orchestrator Web Features". In my case this was set to default applicationpool as well, so had to change it.
Another step you may want to do (and it is part of what got it fixed for me!) is in IIS Manager go to that application pool "System Center 2012 Orchestrator Web Features" and click "Advanced Settings". Find the Process Model -> Identity. This should be the service account from Orchestrator. Please go into that by selecting the ... button in that line and re-enter the username and password.
Next step:
We need to check the web.config files.
How to Change the Orchestrator Database
I had to use the second part of that post to decrypt on config file and change it to use the correct database server and instance and database (we have changed the SQL server at some point to be places on an Always-On cluster) and encrypt it again. Keep in mind the syntax of the two commands. The "connectionStrings" part is case-sensitive so wite it exactly like that! Also the path to the web.config file may need adjustment. For instance in our case the folder was "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft System Center 2012 R2\Orchestrator\Web Service\Orchestrator2012" You will see when it works the way as intended.
Next one to check out while you are at it:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft System Center 2012 R2\Orchestrator\Orchestration Console\web.config
In that file I took the line:
<add key="ScoServiceUri" value="http://SERVERNAME1:81/Orchestrator2012/Orchestrator.svc"/>
And made a copy of it to the line below it. Next add the FQDN to it so it reacts also when using full server names:
<add key="ScoServiceUri" value="http://servername.domain.name:81/Orchestrator2012/Orchestrator.svc"/>
And save the file.
After any of these changes make sure you restart IIS completely.
Other stuff:
Somebody had a problem with Locale localization of the server:
Orchestration console fails to start with [Arg_TargetInvocationException] error
Hope it helps somebody who runs into Orchestrator web console problems.
Throughout these fixes I have used posts from these links:
Thanks Brad!
Good luck to all!
Bob Cornelissen
The main additions to this version are:
This tool can be used for free provided you only simulate a few devices at a time. And for a few dollars an expanded license can be bought to do a lot more testing with this.
For demo and test environments this can be used a lot as a primairy tool to simulate network devices without needing to have all of that infrastructure in production. Also you could take a recording of an existing device in your production and even including real time data and play it back through the simulator.
Everybody needs a copy of this piece of software!
Get the Jalasoft Device Simulator over here.
Bob Cornelissen]]>
Yesterday a dear friend Pete Zerger wrote a blog posting about our story and he has taken it upon himself (and his friends and family) to bring a challenge. Any donation given to our House of Tails charity within a 72 hour period (starting last evening, so for the coming 52 hours or so still) will be DOUBLED. So any donation you make will get a double effect for the animal charity and all of it will go to the wellbeing of these dogs!
Please read how you can help too:
Also I will include a link here to the PayPal/Creditcard possibility of the charity Stichting House of Tails.
Take a minute to check it out through that post and through the House of Tails website.
Seeing how my geeky family and my online families are willing to help out a good cause is truely heart warming. It means soo much for us and for the dogs!
a truely gratefull Bob Cornelissen]]>
If you get this message on your workstations and you do not have the rights to simply run the configuration wizard it asks you to run, it has to be configured through another way.
What the configuration wizard does is set a few registry keys and add a code signing certificate (can also be done through registry). For instance a customer of mine this needs to be entered into a VDI image to make it work for most people.
At SCOM 2012 R2 UR3 a new code signing certificate was introduced which was valid until 22 July 2015. ANd now at SCOM 2012 R2 UR7 a new code signing certificate is introduced. It is now valid until somewhere in September 2016. Bit unfortunate there was a lack of overlap there.
The article I made last year SCOM 2012 Web Console Configuration Required describes the fix and how to find the registry keys. AT the bottom of the article there are updates for a registry key we found as an extra potential blocker of access to the SCOM web Console and there is another update created today for UR7. It has the registry files you need for either UR3/4/5/6 or for the UR7 now.
Good luck and enjoy!
Bob Cornelissen
Regards, Bob Cornelissen]]>
This blog post will show you a complete way to monitor a list of services running using the same account.
I will show you at the bottom of the post how to monitor a list of services with a similar name (which is just a few words different from this whole story).
First of all we have of course multiple ways to monitor services as I have explained in a blog post series about the subject: SCOM - Monitoring a Service - Part 1 intro. However all of this is geared towards monitoring a single service on a single machine or a group of machines for instance.
But sometimes I get requests to:
The first item has been blogged about years ago. The second one is what I was asked to do in this case, so I will pick that one up first. And the last one is something we did in a completely diffeent manner and I might blog about that as well later if you like that (the question was actually not nonly for Windows Services, but also for Windows Scheduled Tasks). I will get back to that in a minute.
The next thing is to bring these items for the first two bullets together in a dashboard or console. As example in the case I ran into at a certain customer the easy way would be to open up a Savision Live Map and add them through an automatic population rule. That way they are of course added to a group and are visible and have a rollup, all happy. In this case we were limited in the amount of maps we could use. So a next likely alternative is to create a distributed application (DA) in SCOM. From there we can add the found services into the DA's. Problem is this does not populate automatically by default. But we can change that behavior to enable automatic population of items on a DA. Think it is best to put that in a separate post how to do that. But the idea was to: find these services + monitor them + put them in a DA + automatically. So also if a service gets added which uses the same criteria it should automatically be brought into monitoring and should be added to the DA! And in his specific case we added the resulting DA's as items on an existing Live Map dashboard.
You know what, I can blog about all these things These kind of workarounds are not always easy to find, and sometimes it is an adjustment of what has been described by one or two people before.
Lets start
We need to have a discovery and monitoring of Windows Services running on a certain machine, for all services which are using the same service account. And we also wanted to do this for both Automatic and Manual services.
Now we need to create a similar use case to do this blog post with. Lets go and find all Windows Services on the SCOM management server using the SDK service account (On my test machine im running a few services with that account to make it easy for me).
I will write this down mostly step by step and expect a little knowledge on how to do stuff in the SCOM Console and there will be XML editting involved, but still no crazy stuff.
Let's do this!
I am going to use a method posted about by Brian Wren wayyyyy back in 2008 for using wildcards with the Windows Service template, and adjust it to my needs. By the way the method in the post mentioned is the way to monitor multiple services with a similar name and a wildcard, using the same template as we use below. Lucky we can keep using the same methods as before and even modify them for other similar needs!
I want to have a new fresh management pack, and I want to have a group of servers to target this service monitoring to. So I start with creating a New Group in SCOM and meanwhile when it asks me where I want to save it I will have it create a New Management Pack for me.
The name is easy to recognize and I am using a versioning format as 1.year.month.anumber. This way with the year and month placed there when I create updates to a pack it is always a higher version than the last time I editted it (if it is in the same month I just move the last digit up a version number). Just one of the things I use for a versioning strategy.
And now we have a group in the same management pack. From this point I walk through the wizard for the group and just add the SCOM Management server to it. So this is my group of servers where I want to monitor the services on.
Moving on, now we will go to the Authoring pane in the SCOM console.
In the Authoring pane find the Management pack templates -> Windows Service. Click the Add Monitoring Wizard. Select Windows Service to start the correct wizard.
Enter a name and description and of course place this in the newly created management pack.
Now on the Service Details page we enter a temporary service name. We will change this later, but we need to have something we can find back quickly enough. So I entered test123 as service name. Next we select the targeted group, which is the group we created earlier and contains the application servers. Because we want to monitor these services both when they are in automatic state and manual startup state we de-select the checkbox at "Monitor only automatic service". I am not that interested in performance data for each service so I just walk through the rest of the wizard in a Next Next Next Finish kind of way.
So now we have a service monitor created in the new management pack and targetted at a group of servers.
Now go to the SCOM Admin pane and go to the Management Packs list. Find this management pack and export it to for instance the desktop.
First we need to do something else before we start editting the code within the exported XML of the management pack.
Now the default Windows Service monitoring template uses a different method to find the specific service (discover it!) than we would use to collect several services in one query. FOr this we want to use WMI to query windows for all the services we are interested in and put that in the Discovery item in the management pack we just created. For this to work of course we first need to find the correct WMI query and test if this gives us the desired result. For this we can use a tool already installed on your machine.
Go to the server where there are these different services running using the same service account. Open a command prompt. Type wbemtest and press enter.
Press the Connect button, make sure it says "root\cimv2" near the top and press Connect button again.
We should now be connected and all the buttons enabled. Find the Query button and click it.
Now the trick is to make the right query to get your data returned to you. In my case I had to search a little bit. Also because I wanted to have the extra filter not only for account name but also wanting to see manual and automatically starting services.
select * from win32_service where (Startname like '%sdk%') AND (Startmode != 'Disabled')
I came up with that query. So what does it do. Well it requests the list of windows services and filters it (where) to find any service with a Startname containing sdk. The percent % signs around it are the wildcards. In WMI they use a percent sign as wildcard and not the star. And I added a second filter where I filtered out all disabled services. That should give me what I want. Lets run the query by clicking the Apply button.
Alright. These are the internal names for the services and indeed there are two SCOM related services and 3 SQL related services which are running with an account with "sdk" in the name somewhere. So after some playing and trying to find how to write WMI queries we finally have a query which will return what we want. Now please copy the query somewhere, so we can use this later.
Now the management pack Authoring part! We will now edit the XML of the management pack we saved earlier. You can do this in any editor and even in Notepad, but I suggest to use at least an editor with some code highlighting. For instance I use Notepad++ for this.
And of course I found out that I did not have it installed on this test server, so I downloaded it (free !) and installed it.
Open up the XML file in the preferred tekst editor. We want to find the Discovery for our custom service we created. So find "test123" and you will have found the discovery.
This looks like a lot of stuff and to some it is not Always too clear what it all means, but stay with me. I will highlight the pieces of code within this block we want to change:
I am sorry to report that this blogging software messes up the XML code blocks and the codeblock option makes it unreadable. So I put the whole thing in MS Word and made two screenshots of the whole discovery. The red parts of the code is what we are looking for (in three places).
We are going to replace the first red part with:
(I left the Frequency tag in there so you recognize it).
The next red piece was where it said: 'BinaryPathName'
We replace that by: 'PathName'
And the third red piece was for the DisplayName and in my case it said: SDK Services
We will replace that by: $Data/Property[@Name='Name']$
Next I scroll to the top of the code and find the version number and give the last digit a higher number:
Now I found out that the template can also make a strange management pack reference. We are using discovery modules living in the Windows Library and the reference has an alias. We need to change something to make this work. Go to near the top of the management pack code (first 30 lines or so) and you will see a list of references. Look for the one listing the Microsoft.Windows.Library as such:
See the here purple colors alias? We need to copy that alias name (so everyting between the quotes and not including those quotes). Next go to the first block of tekst you replaced.
Now the bit where I put the red line under is a reference, we can recognize it by the ! exclamation mark ! Now replace the part before the exclamation mark (windows) with the alias you had in your reference.
Now it should look like the above, and referencing the reference alias you found in your code.
Next I save the file using the exact same name (do not rename management pack files!). And I go to SCOM Admin pane - Management Packs and I import this management pack from disk.
Now in the SCOM Console go to the Monitoring pane. On the left hand side scroll all the way down until you find "Windows Service and Process Monitoring" and go to the state view called "Windows Service State". Within minute I saw these 5 services appear and a few minutes later they were in a monitored state as well. The two at the top just happened to be in there already.
Alright, there we have it! We are now monitoring all windows services - running under a service account with sdk in the name of the account - for both automatic and manual start services - on all machines in a custom group we created.
How to monitor multiple services with a similar name in SCOM
Alright as promissed how to monitor a group of services with a similar display name, such as this example:
You see the group of Jalasoft services there. I want to find all of them and monitor them all. Well you have seen that we can use wbemtest tool to create a WMI query to get that data. In this case we will filter on the name (this is the displayname as you see it in the screenshot above).
select * from win32_service where (name like '%Jalasoft%')
There is our string and the result while querying WMI for this. Exactly what we want.
Well in the story above we know where the query ended up, so we can just insert this WMI query in the same place to have it monitor all services with Jalasoft in the name.
In this case I want to add this monitoring set to the existing pack I created above. So in short the order of actions:
And there we go:
A group of services with something similar in the name, running on a group of servers we defined. Any service with similar name being added to this group of machines will get picked up within a few minutes and be monitored.
Initial Conclusion
SO now we have had the story on how to add either a group of services with a similar name or running under a similar account.
Brian Wren's post was all we need to cover the second example and also put us on the right path for the first example. I just thought it was time to blog about this in an extensive post to show how this is done and what things we can run into. Also using the SCOM 2012 R2 interface of course and showing the wbemtest interface.
Next on the agenda:
Well I said in the beginning that I wanted these objects placed in a distributed application in SCOM and have it pull in these services automatically. So I will create a simple Distributed Application and I will add all Jalasoft services to it.
Of course this will be in my next post coming very soon!
Bob Cornelissen]]>
Situation sketch
This environment has two VMware infrastructures. One for the servers based on 60+ hosts and one for the VDI desktops environment also roughly based on 60+ hosts. This situation also requires that we have different monitoring for each environment, because we are not really interested in VDI desktops which get destroyed and rebuilt every day. But in the server infra we are interested in the guests as those are the ones we also monitor with SCOM agents. I will discuss as well how this was achieved, because Veeam has a way of doing this which not every organization will use, but it is very useful in the scenario we are dealing with.
When designing your Veeam-SCOM monitoring infrastructure there are a few things to keep in mind which affected our design in this scenario.
One good piece of advice is to download the resource kit and use it. It has an excel sheet in it which is a calculator for the estimated number of collectors you need for a certain environment!
By the way you will find that a collector can handle a very nice load. The stability of this platform has been strengthened throughout the years (And I have been stress testing previous versions of the pack for years in some big environments just to see when it would break down under the load and give the feedback to the developers).
In our case we went with 3 collectors for the server VMware environment and for 2 collectors for the VDI environment. Because we were not interested in the VDI VM's this was enough to also provide high availability for the collectors within the monitoring groups.
Monitoring Groups
Because not many are using the monitoring groups feature I will show you what it looks like.
This picture shows on the left hand side the monitoring groups. The top one is the default and the other two were created manually. The example shows the VDI monitoring group with 2 collectors and some stats. In the middle of the picture there are two important things we adjusted as a start. First of all to change the collection interval from the default 5 minutes to 10 minutes (this basically gives a bit less data flow simply because it collects for instance performance data less frequently). The second important setting is setting the Collect VM Data to false for this monitoring group. With thousands of VDI VMs this makes quite a difference.
If you open the monitoring group collector settings you see first of all the possibility to stop the inheritance from the settings of the top level to flow down to this monitoring group. Next we set the EnableVMDiscovery option to False to stop the discovery of VMs and their data from going towards SCOM.
Something else to note in these settings is the CollectionInterval which in this case we set to 10 minutes. And as an example the DataStoreScanInterval that is set to a number, which is actually a multiplier for the CollectionInterval. So when I changed the CollectionInterval from 5 minutes to 10 minutes, also other collections which happen less often are dependent on this setting. In this case the Datastores will be scanned every 12x10 minutes, so every 2 hours instead of every 1 hour. Keep in mind that when tinkering with the collector settings there might be multiple things happening in the background. In case you want to play with the default settings make sure you read up on what these settings do. Veeam MP is very well documented from design to install to adjusting to monitoring.
Now, when starting out with the installation and connecting the collectors to the VCenter servers we deliberately set the collection interval to 10 minutes and also the VM discovery to disabled on both monitoring groups. We figured the amount of data coming in from only the hosts, VCenter, clusters, datastores and hardware and so on and the resulting alerts from that would be enough to start with in the first few days. This was a good decision as there was enough to start with all these layers without already putting the VMs layer on top of it. For larger environments I think it is useful to phase in the deployment this way to give opportunity to do tuning and tweaking and discuss the resulting alerts and views with the operators. It also gives you opportunity to check on the performance and dataflow of the collectors and their agents and the SCOM infrastructure. Check also for most common alerts and health state changes and the amount of performance data coming in and see if this suits your needs. After that continue to the next phase and bring in more monitored stuff.
Hope this was useful to show a case where monitoring groups within the Veeam Management Pack can be used and why. Actually I wrote this post a while back and did not get to posting it until now. Meanwhile we have done a lot of tuning and dashboarding for instance.
Bob Cornelissen
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February Sketch Challenge: Day Eight
I was busy today so this was a real rush job… I'm afraid that it shows.
Today's sketch is from one of my favorite swashbuckler films Adventures of Robin Hood with Errol Flynn.
It was tempting to go for the "Welcome to Sherwood" scene where Robin of Locksley is publicly announce as Robin Hood but for me the key scene is him bursting into the palace with a deer poached from the king's forrest over his shoulder. For me this was Robin's official statement of rebellion.
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Wisconsin off to first 0-4 start in Big Ten since '96
IOWA CITY, Iowa -- Shonn Greene just keeps getting better -- and the resurgent Hawkeyes are following his lead.
Greene rushed for a career-high 217 yards and four touchdowns and Iowa pounded reeling Wisconsin 38-16 on Saturday, sending the Badgers to their first 0-4 start in the Big Ten since 1996.
Greene had touchdown runs of 52, 34, 34, and 12 yards for the Hawkeyes (5-3, 2-2 Big Ten), who have answered a three-game losing streak with a pair of blowout wins.
Greene, who didn't even play football last fall while sorting out his academics at a community college, became the first Iowa player to rush for four touchdowns since Tavian Banks did it against Iowa State in 1997.
Greene is also the first Division I player in the country with over 100 yards in his first eight games of the season, and he's done it while averaging 6.5 yards per carry.
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"It's a mental thing, it's a discipline thing, it's an everything thing," Wisconsin coach Bret Bielema said. "We need to improve what we do in all three phases of the game."
Dustin Sherer, making his first career start in place of Allan Evridge, was 17-of-34 for 161 yards and two interceptions for the Badgers.
Sherer finally got Wisconsin's offense moving on its first two drives of the second half. But Iowa held the Badgers to field goals instead of touchdowns, as Philip Welch hit from 40 and 35 yards out to pull Wisconsin within 14-9 midway through the third quarter.
The Badgers would soon regret not finding the end zone.
Just three plays later, Greene outran Wisconsin's defense for his longest touchdown of the year, a 52-yarder that put the Hawkeyes ahead 21-9.
Paki O'Meara then blocked a punt to give Iowa the ball on the Wisconsin 33. Ricky Stanzi threw behind tight end Allen Reisner in the flat, but Reisner made a one-handed grab and, thanks to a key block from Brandon Myers, ran 16 yards to make it 28-9 with 1:38 left in the third quarter.
Sherer was picked off by Pat Angerer early in the fourth quarter, and Greene put a capper on his best day yet with a 34-yard touchdown run to give the Hawkeyes a 35-9 lead with 9:18 left.
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Greene burst into Wisconsin's secondary, juked cornerback Chris Maragos and, after shaking off safety Jay Valia's attempt to drag him down from behind, dashed into the end zone.
That dazzling run even got Stanzi's attention -- and he was supposed to be carrying out a play-fake.
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Allie wrote:Another mamby pamby man in leadership being less than manly. Selling out his people for the pedofiles, drug addicts, philanders, and sexual deviants of the entertainment world. I bet there are many Christians planning to visit Disney or watch the next NFL game too. Why do we take our money and time and give it to these sickos? Are we so drunk with entertainment that we can't draw a line in the sand and stop patronizing these perverts? What is wrong with us? What excuse are we making for indulging? This is why are witness has little or no effect. We are living just like the world eith a little Jesus mixed in. Having a form of godliness, but denying its power. Ever learning, but never coming to the knowledge of the truth as said by Apostle Paul to Timothy. We buy all these books and go to conferences just to turn around and live like the world claiming christian liberty. We are ecumenists. Most professing women do not dress modestly and get little or no push back from pastors. Many if not most of the men are porn addicts. Christian leaders saying pagan Donald Trump is a believer and that Catholic Marco Rubio is born again. If we want to know firsthand what the problem is we need to get real and look at ourselves.
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- Developer: Ubisoft Montreal
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- Release: Nov 15, 2011
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Fun but awkward super jump
I made a map of where you can find the glitch based on the pause map screen,you must be on the SOUTH WEST side of the city,you will be in the middle of a buch of doctors in the area, there will be a doctor to the right of a romani HQ, under where the romani HQ is, there is a single doctor, and under that there is a black market dealer, and just to the right of that is another doctor. Now...to make sure you're in the right area, you should be facing the doctor that is to the right of the romani HQ, you will be near doctor that is on the right side of the black market dealer. Now here is the glitch since you have found the area, once in place, look to your left and you will see a stand of fruits and or vegetables, it has a thing over it with orange and white stripes on it. Walk up in front of it and jump straight up, usually you will climb on top of it, but for this one, you should somehow launch yourself a good ways into the air either straight up and down,or a bit to the right, it does not mess up your game, and its safe to use as many time as you want, just for fun. If it does not work, keep trying.
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Doug from Colorado writes in with sharp criticism of my post on women's suffrage from Wednesday:
"the pressure was immense at 32.28 millibars" - Really? The standard pressure at 23000 meters (approximately 75000 feet) is 34 millibars (See this chart for details.)
"After a full day of fiery speeches...." - Dang, tough boys, those politicians; a full day of fiery speeches in the "Space-Equivalent Zone"
Though I suspect that anoxia could account for quite a bit of the, shall we say, atmosphere in most political settings. 8-)
Yes, Doug, a clever analysis. But what you failed to account for was the transverse Doppler effect of the prevailing northerly cold front moving into Western Tennessee on August 18, 1920. For if you would have corrected for this in your Van Allen conversion of the squared hypotenuse of the cumulonimbus ratio, you would have obviously seen that I don't know what I'm talking about.
Yes, Doug is right. (There I said it, are you happy now, Doug?) Upon further review, 32.28 millibars of pressure is appropriate for the atmosphere 14.2045455 miles above the Earth. Directly above Nashville, TN that is!
But that pressure is not immense and I accept Doug's rebuke on my accuracy. Lesson learned, never drop in a Steve Cannon joke without properly researching the science behind it.
For those unaware, Steve Cannon was a huge radio personality for decades in the Twin Cities. A member, no less, of the prestigious Pavek Museum of Broadcasting Hall of Fame (located in the holy city of St. Louis Park, MN).
Back in the 70's and 80's he did a show called the Cannon Mess on WCCO. Every time he read the weather report (which, given WCCO's format, was like 6 times an hour), he'd say the temperature, the humidity, and "the pressure is immense at 32.25" or whatever it happened to be at the time. (Thanks to Doug, all these years later I find out he was quoting pressure in inches of mercury NOT millibars).
I surmise the "pressure is immense" line was a reference to the sports casting cliché about the pressure being immense for the players at various times during a game. Cannon delivered that line hour after hour, year after year, and, believe it or not, it was always funny. Not LOL funny, but genuinely, reliably amusing. Something about the juxtaposition of the context of the word pressure and the fact he'd include an obscure and meaningless meteorological statistic in the weather report, combined with his straight forward delivery, equaled enduring comedy magic.
Come to think of it, Canon's schtick has to be the stylistic inspiration for most of the routine of the Joe Soucheray "Garage Logic" show on KSTP. He uses multiple self created cliché lines per hour. Including the weather-related "more proof of global warming" after the the daily high and low temperatures are read. I never thought of that before, but it's obvious.
Speaking of being overly derivative of Cannon, we had such an incident a few weeks ago on Northern Alliance Radio. We had correspondent Chumley Wunderbar on, reporting on his recent travels to San Francisco. When he started using a voice reminiscent of a stereotypically flamboyant denizen of that fair city, I accused him of ripping off Backlash LaRue (a Cannon voiced character).
Reviewing Cannon's page from the Museum of Broadcasting , I ran across this picture. (Left to right, Morgan Mundane, Backlash LaRue, Steve Canon, and Ma Linger.) I think this proves Backlash LaRue was the first alternative lifestyle host in the history of Twin Cities radio. Cannon, amusing and a pioneer for gay rights. No wonder he's in the Hall of Fame.
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