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SCOM assessment in OMS – getting it going..

Firstly, make sure you have:

 

Admin access to your SCOM environment

SCOM management servers are added to your Ops Inslights portal.

Enabled the SCOM Assessment solution

 

Then go to the SCOM assessment configuration tile

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Download the PS1

I ran from one of my SCOM management servers

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At this point it connects to the named MS

Press 1 to set the Run As account

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This is where some might get stuck. You have to enter the display name of a run as account that is already in your Operations Manager deployment.

I am using our Fabric Administrator Action Account

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Next we enable the SCOM assessment to run

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As we see from the output, the script is creating a new override management pack. We’ll look at this in a moment.

Below is the rest of the output after it’s succeeded in its task

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Last is option 3 to set the

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After that completes, q to exit.

 

 

Now go back to your OMS portal and click home

Your SCOM assessment tile will be updated saying it has 1 server assessed:

 

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enter the tile and we see the assessment is pending data.

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So, at this point you are technically done and you should start seeing data in the OMS portal in the next day.

 

 

Stop here if you’re in a hurry…

 

 

For the curious ones out there, I took a little look into what management objects are added or modified in SCOM.

Go to your Run As Profiles and filter > “SCOM Assess” and you will find the below

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Open the properties and we will see the Run As Account we defined in the script is now listed here.

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Let’s go look at the overrides..

Filter your view by the SCOM Management server name.

We can see our overrides that enable the rule and set it to 1 day cycle

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So there you go.. You should start seeing data in your Insights portal in the next day.

Enjoy!

Dan

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