[OpsMgr 2012] Effective configuration dashboard : What Rule and Monitors are running on my server ? (#Dashboard #SCOM2012 #OpsMgr)

All SCOM professsionals have already been asked "What Rule and Monitors are running on my server ?" and there is no easy way to answer ! In SCOM 2007 there was a Resource kit "effective Configuration viewer" and for SCOM 2012, a new cmdlet has been introduced : Export-SCOMEffectiveMonitoringConfiguration but the result is not user friendly !

Windows PowerShell

PS C:\> $Members = (Get-SCOMGroup –DisplayName "All Windows Computers").GetRelatedMonitoringObjects()
PS C:\> $Members | ForEach-Object { Export-SCOMEffectiveMonitoringConfiguration –Instance $_ -Path "C:\temp\$($_.DisplayName).csv" } –RecurseContainedObjects }

Thom Davis have studied the question and created a Dashboard. Here are the 2 articles that explain how it's made :

SCOM Dashboard: What Rules and Monitors? Part 1

SCOM Dashboard: What Rules and Monitors? Part 2

His Dashboard also is able to list :

• Objects and classes on a selected computer
• Active alerting Rules and Monitors for the selected computer
• Active non-alerting Rules and Monitors for the selected computer
• Non-active Rules and Monitors for the selected computer

Download is free here and you are invited to provide feedback, comments, suggestions and dialogue !

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties.

[OpsMgr 2012] Publishing SCOM 2012 dashboards to SharePoint by Kelvin Holman

This feature is covered in the product documentation on Microsoft site :  http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh212924.aspx

Kevin Holman recently ran into a problem setting this up for a customer – so thought he should talk about that on his blog. You can read his article directly on Kevin's blog.

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[Orchestrator 2012][OpsMgr 2012] Orchestrator dashboard in Operations Manager 2012

Anders Bengtsson (MSFT) has published an article related to an Orchestrator dashboard in System Center Operations Manager 2012.

He provides a management pack that collects some information in the Orchestrator DB :

• Queue

1. Pending Jobs, show number of runbooks with pending status, meaning they are waiting to start
2. Top minutes in queue, show number of minutes top 1 job have been in the queue.

• Runbook Results

1. Success, show number of runbooks that have ended with success result
2. Warning, show number of runbooks that have ended with success result
3. Failed, show number of runbooks that have ended with success result

• Runbook Jobs. This widget show number of times each runbook have run with success result. You can easy see which runbook that most often executed. The names you see is the name of the runbook.
• Orchestrator Server Status, show status of my Orchestrator roles. In this sandbox all roles are on the same server, SCO01.
• Orchestrator Alerts show alerts generated by my Orchestrator machine.

You can download his example MP here, NOT SUPPORTED – Contoso.Orchestrator – v2 . Note that this is provided “AS-IS” with no warranties at all. This is not a production ready management pack or solution for your production environment, just a idea and an example.

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[OpsMgr 2012] Creating OpsMgr 2007 R2 style dashboard views in OpsMgr 2012

Operations Manager 2012 included a new style of Dashboard view which uses widgets. This new dashboard functionality is extremely impressive and provides a very flexible framework which can be used to add a variety of widgets and to put them into a variety of different configurations.

In Operations Manager 2007 we had another "Dashboard view” which provided a way to put multiple views onto a single dashboard view. There is no option in the Operations Manager console to create a new OpsMgr 2007 R2 style dashboard view.

 Cameron Fuller provide us a sealed OpsMgr 2007 R2 style dashboard management pack which includes each of the different variations available within the OpsMgr 2007 R2 style layouts. This make easier the way to re-use these 2007 R2 style dashboard by copying them from this management pack into other folders in the OpsMgr console.

Read the full article here

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[OpsMgr 2012] Free OpsMgr 2012 Virtual Machine Manager Dashboards from the OpsMgr Unleashed team

The System Center Operations Manager Unleashed team is offering a free pack of dashboards designed to provide information for System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager hosts and guests.

Read more on http://opsmgrunleashed.wordpress.com/2012/07/13/free-opsmgr-2012-virtual-machine-manager-dashboards-from-the-opsmgr-unleashed-team-scom/

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