[OpsMgr 2007R2][OpsMgr 2012] Basic Troubleshooting Discovery Script

Do you ever get script errors from a discovery scripts?  Or you aren't discovering something that you feel should be discovered?

There are many ways to troubleshoot this discovery process, this will cover the “basics”.

Kevin Holman wrote an article here that explain how to retrieve a discovery script that is failing and how to execute it, passing the required parameter.The goal here is to get the script to run manually – and see if it throws an error, or returns the expected data.

Read the full article here

Stefan Stranger added some checks his help in his article :

1. Verify that MP has been committed on agent
2. Check agent for eventlog errors
3. Check management server for errors
4. Verify that discovery is running
5. Enable debug events in script
6. Debug script on agent

Read the full article here

In my side, the first article I've posted was :

[SCOM 2007] Authoring Management Pack - Create a VBS discovery with a debugging functionnality - PART I

With 2 others parts :

[SCOM 2007] Authoring Management Pack - Create a VBS discovery with a debugging functionnality - PART II

[SCOM 2007] Authoring Management Pack - Create a VBS discovery with a debugging functionnality - PART III

Hope wil all this references, troubleshooting a discovery will be easier for you !

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