SCOM Monitor with write-action

Question

Hello

we hav an old MP with a monitor for special url-check.

The Monitor is running a script and returns a property bag with uri,state and request-time.

Now I want to change the monitor that data are written as performance values.
I want to run a powershell-script after condition-detection with property-bag-values as input parameters.

How can I do this?

#UnitMonitorType ID="MyID"#
 ...

    #DataSource ID="Scheduler" TypeID="System!System.SimpleScheduler"#
      #IntervalSeconds#$Config/IntervalSeconds$#/IntervalSeconds#
      #SyncTime#$Config/SyncTime$#/SyncTime#
    #/DataSource#
    #ProbeAction ID="Script" TypeID="Windows!Microsoft.Windows.PowerShellPropertyBagProbe"#
      #ScriptName#MyScript.ps1#/ScriptName#
      #ScriptBody#$IncludeFileContent/Resources/Scripts/MyScript.ps1$#/ScriptBody#
      #Parameters#
      ...
    #/ProbeAction#
    #ConditionDetection ID="RequestFilter" TypeID="System!System.ExpressionFilter"#
      #Expression#
        #SimpleExpression#
          #ValueExpression#
            #XPathQuery Type="String"#Property[@Name='URI']#/XPathQuery#
          #/ValueExpression#
          #Operator#Equal#/Operator#
          #ValueExpression#
            #Value Type="String"#$Target/Property[Type="My.Class"]/URI$#/Value#
          #/ValueExpression#
        #/SimpleExpression#
      #/Expression#
    #/ConditionDetection# 
    ...

sorry, but I can't put in "<" and ">"

rg

Hansis

Answer 1

Your first post is not very clear, it looks like you have two distinct requirements :

• Add a write action to the monitor workflow so it will collect performance metrics in the DB/DW : not possible. However, what would work is creating a custom datasource module type with your script, then use it as the datasource in the monitor type as well as in a performance rule (with an additionnal performance data mapper at the end of the workflow to convert the property bag to performance data type).
• Run a powershell script after the monitor changes state, using data in the property bag. This is possible with a PowerShell Recovery Task and using the following syntax for the variables : $Data/StateChange/DataItem/Context/DataItem/Property[@DeezNutz =’PropertyName’]$ . More about this here : http://archive.wmug.co.uk/wmug/b/aquilaweb/posts/passing-data-items-to-recovery-actions

Answer 2

Hello!
Thank you for answer.

So I know that it not possible to add a write-action in monitor-workflow.

I have made a datasource with the script and the monitor and the rule are using this datasoure.

the possibilty with recovery task is a good idea. I will take a look on it.

rg
hansi

Answer 3

Monitors can't have write actions but you can add recovery task to achieve your issue.