System Center Operations Manager (SCOM), a component of Microsoft System Center 2016 is a software that helps you monitor services, devices, and operations for computers within your infrastructure. This article provides an overview of object discoveries in SCOM and how to manually trigger them. Note that System Center Operations Manager (SCOM 2016) is still in its technical preview (TP5) at the time of this posting but will be launched in a few weeks during Microsoft Ignite 2016. SCOM uses a agent installed on a computer to collect data, compare sampled data to predefined values, create alerts, and run responses. The agent then sends monitoring data to the management server in the SCOM management group. Management servers run various services, including … Read More
PowerShell Queries and Square Brackets
I recently encountered an interesting issue while trying to query class instances in SCOM. The class instances for certain classes will return the parent class as well as associated classes in the following format: [Parent Class Name].attribute. For instance the class instance for Microsoft.Windows.Computer returns the following: $SCOMClass = Get-SCOMClass -Name Microsoft.Windows.Computer (Get-SCOMClassInstance -Class $SCOMClass)[0] | Select-Object * Ok so this returns expected values. Now let’s return a specific object instead of all objects: (Get-SCOMClassInstance -Class $SCOMClass)[0] | Select-Object [Microsoft.Windows.Computer].LogicalProcessors This returns nothing, even though we clearly see values for the Logical Processors when we select all objects. After some checking, re-checking, and second guessing, I found an article that’s as short as the solution is simple. Apparently double-escaping … Read More