Script based Monitor in SCOM2016

Hi Ravi (@Ravi Bhushan ),

you need to work with PropertyBags within your script and then use those to configure the Health Expressions (Parameters and Values). I wrote a blog post on integrating a PowerShelll script in SCOM and it contains very detailed explaination, which will help you achieve the goal. Here it is:

Monitoring Active Directory User Account Expiration using SCOM and PowerShell (Step by Step Guide)

https://www.pohn.ch/monitor-active-directory-user-account-expiration-using-scom-and-powershell-step-by-step-guide/

So you need to do the following:

• get the CookDown PowerShell Management Pack:

PowerShell Authoring

https://www.cookdown.com/scom-essentials/powershell-authoring

Very important: The link also contains a refernce to a video, where you can also get detailed explainations how to use it.

• The next step will be to edit your script and include the following:

$ScomAPI = New-Object -ComObject "MOM.ScriptAPI"
$PropertyBag = $ScomAPI.CreatePropertyBag()

Afterwards, you need to add Property Bags to your script, like this (example):

#Prepare API and Property Bag Objects  
$ScomAPI = New-Object -ComObject "MOM.ScriptAPI"  
$PropertyBag = $ScomAPI.CreatePropertyBag()  

#check if the dump exists  
$target_files = Get-ChildItem "D:\temp\Client" -Recurse -Include "*.DMP"  

if ($target_files){      
$PropertyBag.AddValue("FileExistance","True")      
} else {      
$PropertyBag.AddValue("FileExistance","False")  
}  
#Return the property bag  
$PropertyBag  

• Don't forget to add this at the bottom of the script, so that yyou can return the property bag to SCOM: # Return the property bag $PropertyBag
• Afterwards you can configure the Parameter Names on the wizard like this:

Healthy Expression:

Property[@FileExistance] ----- Equals -------- True

Unhealthy Expression:

Property[@FileExistance] ----- Equals -------- False

Please check out the blog I posted, the screenshots and the exaplainations will also help you.

Last but not least: I noticed that you are trying to monitor for crash dumps (BSODs). You asked a question in the forums a couple fo weeks ago and I posted a late reply to the therad:

Monitoring for crashdump file in SCOM

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/892413/monitoring-for-crashdump-file-in-scom.html

As you will read from my reply, there is also a solution for that, developed by a Microsoft MVP (Dujon). Please check it out, it can save you some time.

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Regards,
Stoyan