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 →