SCOM: Monitor the monitor part 1: PowerShell
Recently I got a question of an engineer during a community event why SCOM didn’t notify him when SCOM was down.
My first response was very similar to the response of my favorite captain below:
But this got me thinking actually because the engineer made a good point. That to have a full monitoring you should have another mechanism in place to monitor the monitoring system. Most companies still have a legacy monitoring system in place that can be leveraged to monitor the servers of SCOM but let’s face it: keeping another monitoring system alive just to monitor the SCOM servers only adds complexity to your environment for a small benefit.
That’s why I started building a small independent check with PowerShell. In part 1 of this series I’ll go over how to monitor whether your management servers are still up and running.
To do this we need to make sure that we have a watcher node which is able to ping the...