add a diagnostic to monitor

Question

Is there a basic guide on adding a diagnostic to a monitor in scom? We have a scenario when ever a disk space reaches a certain threshold and the monitor gets triggered to also produce a report of the top 5 large files on the drive.

Is there anyway to view an inbuilt diagnostic or re-use one like the top memory list that is attached to the memory percentage monitor?

Answer 1

>Is there a basic guide on adding a diagnostic to a monitor in scom?

A task is similar to diagnostic.
A task is a script or other executable code that runs either on the computer running the Operations console or on the server, client, or device that is being managed. Tasks can potentially perform any kind of activity, including restarting a failed application and deleting files.
Monitors can have two kinds of tasks associated with them: diagnostic tasks that try to discover the cause of a problem or provide you with additional information to assist with that diagnosis, and recovery tasks that try to fix the problem.

Diagnostic and recovery tasks can only be created for a specific monitor. A diagnostic or recovery task that you create for one monitor cannot be shared with or associated with a different monitor; you must recreate the task for each monitor.

Roger

Answer 2

ok, thanks for that. I guess i probably should have been a bit more specific. I have a script to email a report i wanted attached to a monitor. Is it simply just adding the script as a diagnostic on the monitor properties and whenever the monitor is triggered the diagnostic will work?

Answer 3

at first, you may generate the script to generate your required report and then add it to diagnostic task

1. Select the diagnostic task. In this case, we select "Run Script"
   
2. make sure that run diagnostic automatic is selected in order to the script will run when monitor change its state from health to critical/warning

Roger

Answer 4

ok thanks. One last question, is it still the case that only vbs scripts will work? We are running scom 2019, i was hoping to use a powershell script. Thanks

Answer 5

Yes you can

Roger