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Many SCOM installations have monitors sitting in unhealthy states. This is a good thing if monitored items are in fact in an unhealthy state, someone is looking to take action and the monitors automatically reset once the issue has been…
This isn’t related to System Center, but I wanted to stick this out there in case someone else runs into the same issue. Scenario: My lab runs on two Windows 8 machines. I haven’t played with Server 2012 much as…
To ensure high availability for your SCOrch solutions that connect to SCOM, failover of the SDK service needs to be managed in the event the SCOM management server the SCOrch environment is connecting to becomes unavailable. The right way to…
From time to time, it may be found necessary to raise an alert directly into SCOM 2012 from Orchestrator. Contained within the SCOM 2012 IP is an activity named ‘Create Alert’. Per the documentation on TechNet (here), the ‘Create Alert’…
When passing alerts from SCOM onto a downstream system for notification such as ticketing or email, there tends to be two approaches. Override and disable all alert traffic that isn’t immediately actionable, or Put a process/tool in place to automatically…