Knowing that an agent is not reporting is essential, as if the agent is not reporting then the status of all the monitors on the system will not be up to date. As such I have been looking into doing this and have come up with this: $Agents = Invoke-Command -ComputerName $SCOMServer -ScriptBlock { Import-Module
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NetApp: Identify Snapshots Not Managed by Policy
The function below can be used to identify snapshots on a NetApp Cluster Mode system that do not have a corresponding snapshot schedule applied to the volume in question. It can be used to find odd snapshots that have been taken ad-hoc, and also to find snapshots that are left orphaned by changing the snapshot
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WhatsUp Gold PowerShell Monitor Best Practices
I have been using PowerShell monitors with WhatsUp Gold for nearly 3 years now. They offer a lot of flexibility and the ability to query a lot more systems that is available natively through SNMP, WMI or other built in monitor types. However, with all of this flexibility comes the ability to introduce many problems.
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WhatsUp Gold Raspberry Pi Monitor
I have worked out a way to get a full screen display of a specific dashboard for use with a digital signage display using a Raspberry Pi, using only a web browser. The Dashboard client was ok, but required a Windows machine, and although we could use the existing web page with automatic login (http://community.whatsupgold.com/forums/whatsupgoldeditionsstandardandpremiumeditions/automatic-login-by-url)
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