SCOM - Recovery task IIS application pool

Question

Hi,

I am wondering how to setup a recovery task on SCOM to restart/start the application pool?

When IIS 10 Application Pool MP detect "Application Pool disabled due to worker process failure".

Please advise.

Thank you!

JC

Answer 1

Hi @Kam Wai Chan ,

this is so cool, I am glad that you could resolve it with the ID. Please mark your answer as a solution, so that this post can help other with the same request!
And of course, thanks for sharing!

Regards,
Stoyan

Answer 2

I found the solution.

Full path to file:
%windir%\System32\inetsrv\AppCmd.exe

Parameters:
start apppool /apppool.name:$Target/Property[Type="MicrosoftWindowsInternetInformationServicesCommonLibrary10101!Microsoft.Windows.InternetInformationServices.ApplicationPool"]/PoolID$

Thank you!

Answer 3

Hi JC,

the process is prettyy straight forward and is depicted here:

SCOM Basics: Creating a Service Monitor with Automatic Recovery
https://www.opsman.co.za/scom-basics-creating-a-service-monitor-with-automatic-recovery/

In this article, the first part covers the creation of a monitor, but you can skip this and go directly to the section:

"Creating an automatic start service recovery:"

You can follwo the steps there, but when you get to the part where you need to configure the full path to file (c:\windows\System32\net.exe on the example) you don't enter "c:\windows\System32\net.exe", but you enter:

c:\windows\System32\inetsrv\AppCmd.exe

becuase you will be using executing a bit different command with the IIS tool Appcmd.exe. An example of how it should look like, from:

Afterwards you need to enter the command for starting the pool under parameters. The command should look like this, from:

How to restart the IIS application pool from the command line?
https://bobcares.com/blog/how-to-restart-iis-application-pool-command-line/

start apppool /apppool.name: abc  

please be aware that the actual command is like:

appcmd start apppool /apppool.name: abc  

but because you already specified the path to the appcmd.exe, you need to skip the "apcmd" part and enter the rest ("start apppool /apppool.name: abc") in the "Parameters" field.

This will do the job, I hope I could help you out!

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Regards
Stoyan Chalakov

Answer 4

Hi @Kam Wai Chan ,

unfortunately not, you have to use the Application Pool name with the command, other parameters will not work :(

Hier you can find a nice exacmple, posted by Leon:
restart Application Pool using Diagnostic task in SCOM
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/systemcenter/en-US/267f26fc-e3b7-41b2-ac20-2894ed91a36c/restart-application-pool-using-diagnostic-task-in-scom?forum=operationsmanagergeneral

But I think I understand now where the challenge is: You need to have a way to dynamically obtain the name of the IIS Application pool, which has been disabled.
Unnder the same link, you will find also the suggestiions of CyrAz (@CyrAz ), who is also active in this forum, where he shared his thoughtson accomplishing this same taks in an automated way.
So if you have a specific Application pool in mind, you can just use the command above with the IIS App Pool name, but if you want to auotmate it, it will get complex.

Regards,
Stoyan

Answer 5

Hi @Kam Wai Chan ,

i think I found it:

Recovering an IIS Application Pool using SCOM 2012 R2
https://vimeo.com/92720005

It does not matter that it says SCOM 2012 R2, the approch is the same and you have to use:

Althought on the example they are using wmic (WMI query), you can use apcm.exe and try with the DisplayName and let me know if it works.

Regards,
Stoyan