Sometimes you may check your Agent Managed view to see if any agents are grey or not being monitored. You might want to know when they last reported. This is a PowerShell script that quickly finds the last time an agent checked in with SCOM and saves that information to a file. You can modify … Continue reading SCOM Agent Reported Time Using PowerShell →

There may come a time where a SCOM agent is no longer communicating with its Management Server. Some organizations may allow the monitoring team to log into the server that has the agent communication issues and clear the Health Service State folder. For hardened environments, that may pose to be an issue. Through orchestrator, we … Continue reading Flush SCOM Health Cache Using Orchestrator →

Warning!!! Assembly will be required. You will need to look at the scripts in each of the steps and adjust accordingly to your test environment. As always, test in your test environment.  From time to time, I am finding myself either standing up a new Linux box in my environment or helping customers with deploying … Continue reading Automate the installation and signing of Linux Certificates for SCOM →

Many customers that use SCOM have several hundred to thousands or even more agents that are monitored. In many environments it is a different team that images new servers than the team that manages SCOM. It is sometimes the case that the servers that are decommissioned are not often removed from SCOM and thus you … Continue reading Automatically Remove SCOM Agents that have not sent a Heartbeat in “X” Days →

Operations Manager gives the option to install agents through the Operations Manager Console, or by other means "Manually Installed". Several organizations choose the manual method as part of their imaging process or other reasons. Also, the organization may choose to not automatically approve agents into Operations Manager if Manually installed. Depending on the number of … Continue reading Orchestrator Runbook to Approve Manually Installed SCOM agents and exclude “not like” Names →

Below is a list of the build numbers for the Operations Manager Agent. You can also find my other posts of SCOM Server build numbers and Agent build numbers SCOM Management Server Build Numbers SCOM Agent Build Numbers System Center Operations Manager 2022 Build NumberKBRelease DateAgent VersionDescription10.22.1019.0March 2022 1.6.9-0General Availability10.22.1024.0May 20221.6.9-2OMI Vulnerability10.22.1032.0August 20221.6.10-2OMI Vulnerability10.22.1039.05020318December 20221.6.11-0Update Rollup … Continue reading SCOM SCX Agent Build Numbers →

Below is a list of the build numbers for the Operations Manager Agent SCOM Management Server Build Numbers SCOM SCX Agent Build Numbers System Center Operations Manager 2022 Build Number KB Release DateDescription10.22.10056.0March 2022RTM10.22.10110.05020318December 2022Update Rollup 1 System Center Operations Manager 2019 Build Number KB Release DateDescription10.19.10014.0March 2019 RTM10.19.10140.04533415February 2020Update Rollup 110.19.10153.04558752August 2020Update Rollup 210.19.10177.04594078March 2021Update Rollup 310.19.10185.05005527October 2021Update Rollup … Continue reading SCOM Agent Build Numbers →

Below is a list of the build numbers for Operations Manager SCOM Agent Build Numbers SCOM SCX Agent Build Numbers System Center Operations Manager 2022 Build NumberKBRelease DateDescription10.22.10118.0EvaluateMarch 2022RTM10.22.10337.05020318December 2022Update Rollup 1 System Center Operations Manager 2019 Build NumberKBRelease DateDescription10.19.10050.0EvaluateMarch 2019SCOM 2019 RTM10.19.10311.0KB4533415February 2020SCOM 2019 Update Rollup 110.19.10407.0KB4558752August 2020SCOM 2019 Update Rollup 210.19.10505.0KB459407May 2021SCOM 2019 … Continue reading SCOM Management Server Build Numbers →

UR4 for SCOM 2019 is now available. More information can be found by visiting: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/update-rollup-4-for-system-center-operations-manager-2019-07ad0ef3-a330-4373-92f6-2dda3821bee5

Operations Manager 2022 has the new built-in role of Delegated Administrator. This is a great way to scope specific administrative tasks to a group that may not need to be full SCOM administrators. In this example I am going to use the wizard and scope to only allow for Agent Management Scope the selected permissions … Continue reading Delegated Administrator – New in SCOM 2022 →