General Operations Manager Feedback
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Use Fragments direct in the SCOM Console to create MP's
Make Fragments part of the SCOM Console so we can use them when we create MP
6 votes -
Enable Edge for Web Availability and Transaction tests monitor
Many new web sites now are blocking IE to accept only Edge. So Web transaction recorder is not working. Even a simple GET test is not working. Is there plan to enable Edge as a working browser for SCOM 2019 Web Application Monitoring templates ?
1 vote -
OpenSource Management Packs
Hi!
Make please centralized repository for your (and community) management packs. Community can help you to improve and fix management packs faster.1 vote -
Management Pack to monitor ADFS 2019 MP
HI, Brian Wren had mentioned that Microsoft would always have a Management Pack for every Microsoft product. Currently Microsoft does NOT have an MP to monitor ADFS
47 votes -
User-made custom Rules/Monitors Exports
Provide an options to view all "user-made" custom rules/monitors and the ability to export it out to CSV. That would be really helpful.
1 vote -
Release and maintain a 2019 version of the "System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Authoring Resource Kit"
Release and maintain a 2019 version of the "System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Authoring Resource Kit".
This tool is an absolute gem in training new people to SCOM, which also gives them a better understanding on how everything is pieced together and useful for design work...
22 votes -
Support monitoring/collection of 32-bit performance counters on 64-bit operating systems
SCOM cannot monitor or collect data for 32-bit performance counters on 64-bit operating systems. A workaround is to use a PowerShell script which calls 32-bit PowerShell and makes use of the Get-Counter command, but this causes significant load on the system processor when collecting data for multiple counters. I feel that there should be native support for this scenario that avoids this need to launch 32-bit PowerShell separately.
4 votes -
Create role for application monitoring author that doesn't require SCOM admin
Currently it requires SCOM admin access to run Authoring console templates like Web Transaction Monitoring. In large enterprise environment, dev team should be able to create and modify web transaction monitors in the SCOM authoring space themselves without needing SCOM admin.
8 votes -
Authoring tools - please create extension for VSCode
Hello! I think it would be great if you created VSCode extension that adds to authoring of Management Packs - features like intellisense, class definitons and so on. I guess VSCode would be a nice tool to edit XML files, if it had proper definitions.
Thanks!
42 votes -
Service Level Tracking - Add 'Business Hours'
Please add the ability to define 'business hours' or schedules when authoring SLO objects. This would allow SLO tracking of objects only at given times or schedules to match business needs.
7 votes -
HTML authoring portal in Web Console
Provide Operations Console authoring functionality as a HTML portal in Web Console.
4 votes -
Allow dynamic grouping of all objects that are associated with a given criteria
For better alert Distribution it would be great to be able to create dynamic Groups that contain all objects based on a given criteria. I create a Group, provide a servername as criteria for example and all objects that have a relation to the Server become members of the Group (SQL DBs, IIS Websites, Hyper-V Host, HDDs, etc.). Right now it his very hard to accomplish this task. This feature would be awesome.
10 votes -
Allow Powershell script in Agent task
Currently only vbs is supported, when creating Agent based task. For now, PS is mostly installed on all recent OS please implement support for adding Powershell scripts here.
You can mark it somehow- to distinguish VBS/PS based tasks, so users are not running ( or know and accepts) it on systems which do not support PS.30 votes -
Add PowerShell cmdlets to create views, rules and monitors in SCOM
Today, there is a measley three PowerShell cmdlets for making new items in SCOM. The only thing we can do with PowerShell is make a New ScomLocation (pretty useful, I will admit), and make a new Management Group connection, or a new resource pool.
That's it. There is very little useful scripting support for SCOM. If you take a look at ConfigMgr, there are more than 100 cmdlets for making new items! This needs to change.
My vote is to first create cmdlets to support making new rules, then new monitors, and finally new views.
The syntax should be something…
78 votes -
A GUI based approach to create PowerShell rules and monitors
Within the GUI there is no easy way to create PowerShell script monitors and rules. Please add a GUI driven wizard to create those.
340 votes -
Web Test created in VS should run internally as well
Currently we could create web tests in Visual Studio and run them from agents in GSM, but it works only for public facing web sites. That would be awesome for internal use as well.
Microsoft would offer a new great feature to SCOM and would have the opportunity to sell more VS Ultimate Editions ;-)
Thanks,
Patrick73 votes -
Update the 2007 Authoring Console tool
The 2007 MP Authoring Console for SCOM 2008 R2 was a very easy to use GUI driven tool. I know I can use MP Author, Visual Studio, etc...but this tool was SO much more intuitive and easier for MP authoring and editing. We need a 2012/2016 version to work with the new MP schema of 2012 MPs.
234 votes -
Better Authoring Documentation
Brian Wrens documents and MVA course are excellent, however they could be complimented by some examples (i.e. how to create a relationship based on a reg key etc). Information of this type currently needs to be gleamed from forums, Community MPs and at times just hours of experimentation. Which takes a long time and is extremely frustrating. Surely there is enough content in the standard Microsoft MPs to be able to quickly create a library of examples. I
11 votes -
Logical Chain of Components (Alert Storm Prevention)
We need an option to associate components to each other to prevent an alert storm created by a failure of a central component.
For example if a central router on a remote location fails we get alerts from each component monitored at the location even though its still available locally.206 votes -
select which MP should run on which Group
like a wizard to select which MP (monitors , discoveries, and rules ) to be run on which Group of servers.
so customer just want to monitor the base OS for a group of servers and not to discover or be alerted for other MPs
so that will scope the alerts and discovers more !11 votes
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