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Schedule a URL into Maintenance Mode

Tom Lasswell — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 22:53:54 +0000

Found a nice article about how to script a URL (or web application) into maintenance mode. This was a little bit of a challenge to find so I'm reposting it to hopefully get some more attention. I've also posted the modified version of the script that allows for multiple watcher hosts.

[powershell]param($rootMS,$urlName,$minutes,$comment,$reason)
Add-PSSnapin "Microsoft.EnterpriseManagement.OperationsManager.Client" -ErrorVariable errSnapin;

Set-Location "OperationsManagerMonitoring::" -ErrorVariable errSnapin;
new-managementGroupConnection -ConnectionString:$rootMS -ErrorVariable errSnapin;
set-location $rootMS -ErrorVariable errSnapin;

$URLWatcher = (Get-MonitoringClass -name Microsoft.SystemCenter.WebApplication.Perspective) | Get-MonitoringObject | where {$_.DisplayName -eq $urlName}

$startTime = [System.DateTime]::Now
$endTime = $startTime.AddMinutes($minutes)

"Putting URL into maintenance mode"
foreach ($name in $URLWatcher) {
New-MaintenanceWindow -startTime:$startTime -endTime:$endTime -monitoringObject:$name -comment:$comment -Reason:$reason }[/powershell]

Usage:

[bash]C:\WINDOWS\system32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe URLMaintenanceModeV4.ps1 -rootMS: `SCOMRMS1′ -urlName: ‘MSN Website Checker’ -minutes:45 -comment: ‘My Comment’ -reason: ‘PlannedOther’[/bash]

http://www.scom2k7.com/schedule-a-into-url-maintenance-mode/

OpsMgr 2007 – No graphs in emailed reports

Tom Lasswell — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 00:50:10 +0000

Some of you may have found that there are no graphs in your emails (scheduled reports) from SCOM 2007. I posted this up on the MSMOM email distro and Kevin Holman pointed me to a KB article.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972821

Just add this to your ReportingServicesService.exe.config file in the \ReportServer\bin

[bash]

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Place this between the tags:

[bash]
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OpsMgr 2007 – Author Privileges

Tom Lasswell — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 00:32:15 +0000

Have you run into setting up permissions/privileges for your administrators within the scom console. This can be quite confusion. You often run into cryptic areas where certain functions don't react as they should and you run into the error "The user domain\user does not have sufficient permission to perform the operation".

Some important information here:

Reset Health Permission

Goto your user role area for your author group. The "tasks" tab is where you need to add "Flush Health Service State and Cache" task.

Allow viewing the 'overrides' under 'authoring'

You need to allow access to all "views". You can still lock down which machines they view by the "group scope", and "author scope" locks down which targets (or rules/monitors/etc) they can modify).

*I haven't found a way to lock down the views yet. If you know, please let me know!

Greyed out Domain Controllers

Tom Lasswell — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 01:14:42 +0000

I spent a while searching around for this gem. Basically the domain controllers don't trust the local system account so you have to run the HSLockdown.exe tool. I found this blog article that explains:

http://scug.be/blogs/scom/archive/2008/08/18/opsmgr-agent-greyed-out-on-domain-controller.aspx