Friday, May 5, 2017

Event 4502 Log analytics customs logs not present. Unable to get blob container for CustomLog

If you get this event in your opsmgr logs.

A module of type "Microsoft.EnterpriseManagement.Mom.Modules.CloudFileUpload.CloudFileUploadWriteAction" reported an exception Microsoft.EnterpriseManagement.Mom.Modules.CloudFileUpload.FileUploadException: Unable to get blob container for CustomLog from https://omsworkspaceid.ods.opinsights.azure.com/ContainerService.svc. Will keep trying according to the specified policy. ---> System.Net.WebException: The remote name could not be resolved: 'omsworkspaceid.ods.opinsights.azure.com'
   at System.Net.HttpWebRequest.EndGetRequestStream(IAsyncResult asyncResult, TransportContext& context)
   at System.Net.HttpWebRequest.EndGetRequestStream(IAsyncResult asyncResult)
   at Microsoft.EnterpriseManagement.Mom.Modules.CloudFileUpload.CloudFileUploadWriteAction.GetRequestStreamCallback(IAsyncResult asynchronousResult)
   --- End of inner exception stack trace --- which was running as part of rule "Microsoft.IntelligencePacks.CustomLogUpload.UploadCustomLog" running for instance

Just make sure that you are able to infact connect to that url from your servers.
If you rule out any firewall issues and the url infact does not exist which was in my case.
Since I am running this in the Azure government cloud the url for me was different.
This url can be found out by opening the overrides pane in your scom console.
Scope it to "Health Service" and look in Management pack object rule- Target Object.
The parameter Endpoint url is an overridedable parameter. Get the right one from the overrides in the others
the values for these endpoints vary according to the services that they provide. Just pick the right one which shows up in your event.
OperationalData.svc/PostDataItems
/ContainerService.svc/PostDataItems
/EtwEventCollectionDataService.svc/PostDataItems

 Then open rules and again scope them to health service.Find your rule from the event. Check the highlighted last line  from above event.
Override this rule and add the EndpointUrl that pertains to your environment.


Log analytics log collection. Change proxy settings for some servers.

If you are trying to connect your SCOM agents to Log Analytics. The link for that is here.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/log-analytics/log-analytics-oms-gateway

There are two ways in which you can do that
1. Install the SCOM agent and connect your SCOM zone to Log analytics.
2. Install the OMS agent and either let it send data directly over the internet or through you SCOM zones.

What we did not know that if you have servers which are in different subnets and do not have a direct internet connection, you will not see some of your data in OMS.
This is because the SCOM agents will send some of the data to your SCOM zones but the other performance collection data is sent directly over the internet.
The solution for this is to provide a proxy. Which you can do if you have the OMS agent installed.
But if you only have the SCOM agent installed and you try set up a proxy server to send data to OMS it does not allow you to configure individual settings.
The setting in Administration--OMS-Connection--Proxy server will apply the same setting to all your agents.

If some of the servers which have internet connection send data directly over the internet and some of the servers still send data to the OMS gateway you have to do this

Open your SCOM console and create a group of servers. Add the objects of the class health service that you want to be sending data over the gateway.





 Then navigate to rules. Select scope "Health Service" and override the rule "Advisor Proxy Setting Rule" for this group. Enter your proxy server in parameter "Web proxy address" and apply. Save this in a new unsealed management pack.

 

Wednesday, May 3, 2017

Service manager Exchange connector parsing keywords

Here are the keywords that can be used when you are working on incidents or service requests in Service manager.
If you add this keyword to your email the desired actions will take place.
The id of the incident or service request should be in the subject of the email.
and then include these keywords exactly as they are shown to have the desired action

e.g
Subject: [SR1245] This is a service request to create and account

Body:

Please close the ticket. The account is created.

[Completed]




Tuesday, May 2, 2017

Putting SCOM agents in maintenance mode during Configmgr SCCM patching using a management pack.

A while ago I was tasked to suppress the alerts from SCOM for servers which were being patched and rebooted. There is a checkbox in SCCM which allows you to suppress the SCOM alerts but it did not work in my case and we got bombarded with alerts during a patching window.

This management pack in your environment should help in catching those alerts and suppressing your servers when there is a reboot for patching. Copy the code below and create your own xml file.
Name it Contoso.Patching.Maintenance.xml before you import it or you can rename it to the company or organization you work for.
But make sure that you replace Contoso everywhere.

This management pack will monitor the agents for an event 1074. Which is the Configmgr initiated reboot.
Then run a power shell script which will put those agents in maintenance mode.


<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><ManagementPack ContentReadable="true" SchemaVersion="2.0" OriginalSchemaVersion="1.1" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
  <Manifest>
    <Identity>
      <ID>Contoso.Patching.Maintenance</ID>
      <Version>1.0.0.0</Version>
    </Identity>
    <Name>Contoso Patching Maintenance</Name>
    <References>
      <Reference Alias="MicrosoftWindowsLibrary7585010">
        <ID>Microsoft.Windows.Library</ID>
        <Version>7.5.8501.0</Version>
        <PublicKeyToken>31bf3856ad364e35</PublicKeyToken>
      </Reference>
      <Reference Alias="SystemLibrary7585010">
        <ID>System.Library</ID>
        <Version>7.5.8501.0</Version>
        <PublicKeyToken>31bf3856ad364e35</PublicKeyToken>
      </Reference>
      <Reference Alias="SystemCenter">
        <ID>Microsoft.SystemCenter.Library</ID>
        <Version>7.0.8433.0</Version>
        <PublicKeyToken>31bf3856ad364e35</PublicKeyToken>
      </Reference>
      <Reference Alias="Health">
        <ID>System.Health.Library</ID>
        <Version>7.0.8433.0</Version>
        <PublicKeyToken>31bf3856ad364e35</PublicKeyToken>
      </Reference>
    </References>
  </Manifest>
  <Monitoring>
    <Rules>
      <Rule ID="Contoso.ConfigmgrInitiated.Reboot.Alert.Rule" Enabled="true" Target="MicrosoftWindowsLibrary7585010!Microsoft.Windows.Server.Computer" ConfirmDelivery="true" Remotable="true" Priority="Normal" DiscardLevel="100">
        <Category>Alert</Category>
        <DataSources>
          <DataSource ID="DS" TypeID="MicrosoftWindowsLibrary7585010!Microsoft.Windows.EventProvider">
            <ComputerName>$Target/Property[Type="MicrosoftWindowsLibrary7585010!Microsoft.Windows.Computer"]/NetworkName$</ComputerName>
            <LogName>System</LogName>
            <Expression>
              <And>
                <Expression>
                  <SimpleExpression>
                    <ValueExpression>
                      <XPathQuery Type="UnsignedInteger">EventDisplayNumber</XPathQuery>
                    </ValueExpression>
                    <Operator>Equal</Operator>
                    <ValueExpression>
                      <Value Type="UnsignedInteger">1074</Value>
                    </ValueExpression>
                  </SimpleExpression>
                </Expression>
                <Expression>
                  <SimpleExpression>
                    <ValueExpression>
                      <XPathQuery Type="String">PublisherName</XPathQuery>
                    </ValueExpression>
                    <Operator>Equal</Operator>
                    <ValueExpression>
                      <Value Type="String">User32</Value>
                    </ValueExpression>
                  </SimpleExpression>
                </Expression>
                <Expression>
                  <RegExExpression>
                    <ValueExpression>
                      <XPathQuery Type="String">EventDescription</XPathQuery>
                    </ValueExpression>
                    <Operator>ContainsSubstring</Operator>
                    <Pattern>The process C:\Windows\CCM\Ccmexec.exe</Pattern>
                  </RegExExpression>
                </Expression>
                <Expression>
                  <RegExExpression>
                    <ValueExpression>
                      <XPathQuery Type="String">EventDescription</XPathQuery>
                    </ValueExpression>
                    <Operator>ContainsSubstring</Operator>
                    <Pattern>has initiated the restart of computer</Pattern>
                  </RegExExpression>
                </Expression>
              </And>
            </Expression>
          </DataSource>
        </DataSources>
        <WriteActions>
          <WriteAction ID="Alert" TypeID="Health!System.Health.GenerateAlert">
            <Priority>1</Priority>
            <Severity>0</Severity>
            <AlertName />
            <AlertDescription />
            <AlertOwner />
            <AlertMessageId>$MPElement[Name="Contoso.ConfigmgrInitiated.Reboot.Alert.Rule.AlertMessage"]$</AlertMessageId>
            <AlertParameters>
              <AlertParameter1>$Data/LoggingComputer$</AlertParameter1>
              <AlertParameter2>$Data/EventSourceName$</AlertParameter2>
              <AlertParameter3>$Data/EventNumber$</AlertParameter3>
              <AlertParameter4>$Data[Default='']/EventDescription$</AlertParameter4>
            </AlertParameters>
            <Suppression />
            <Custom1 />
            <Custom2 />
            <Custom3 />
            <Custom4 />
            <Custom5 />
            <Custom6 />
            <Custom7 />
            <Custom8 />
            <Custom9 />
            <Custom10 />
          </WriteAction>
        </WriteActions>
      </Rule>
      <Rule ID="Contoso.ConfigMgrInitiated.Reboot.Script.Rule" Enabled="true" Target="SystemCenter!Microsoft.SystemCenter.AllManagementServersPool" ConfirmDelivery="false" Remotable="true" Priority="Normal" DiscardLevel="100">
        <Category>Custom</Category>
        <DataSources>
          <DataSource ID="Scheduler" TypeID="SystemLibrary7585010!System.Scheduler">
            <Scheduler>
              <SimpleReccuringSchedule>
                <Interval Unit="Minutes">2</Interval>
              </SimpleReccuringSchedule>
              <ExcludeDates />
            </Scheduler>
          </DataSource>
        </DataSources>
        <WriteActions>
          <WriteAction ID="ExecuteScript" TypeID="MicrosoftWindowsLibrary7585010!Microsoft.Windows.PowerShellWriteAction">
            <ScriptName>SuppressPatchedServers.ps1</ScriptName>
            <ScriptBody>
            ## This script will suppress the patched servers
 Add-PSSnapin "Microsoft.EnterpriseManagement.OperationsManager.Client" -ErrorVariable errSnapin;
 Function WriteEvent ($Messages,$ID) {
 $Messages = $Messages + "`t" + $(get-date).ToString()
 Write-EventLog -LogName Application -Source PatchingSuppress -EventId $ID -Message $Messages
 }


#WriteEvent "Starting patching script in Contoso.Patching.Maintenance.xml mp" "1234"

$Date = Get-Date
$path = $date.Month.ToString() + $date.Day.ToString() + $date.Year.ToString() + ".log"
$minutes= 15
$comment= "Rebooted by Configuration Manager"
$reason="PlannedOther"
$startTime = [System.DateTime]::Now
$endTime = $startTime.AddMinutes($minutes)
$Agents = Get-SCOMAgent
$Alerts = Get-ScomAlert -Criteria {Name like 'Contoso Reboot Initiated Alert' and ResolutionState = 0}


foreach($Alert in $Alerts)
{
$agent = $Agents | Where-Object {$_.DisplayName -eq $alert.MonitoringObjectName}
if(($clusters = $agent.GetRemotelyManagedComputers()))
   {
      $clusterNodeClass = Get-MonitoringClass -Name Microsoft.Windows.Cluster.Node
       foreach($cluster in $clusters)
         {
           $clusterObj = Get-MonitoringClass -Name Microsoft.Windows.Cluster | Get-MonitoringObject -Criteria "Name='$($cluster.ComputerName)'"
            if($clusterObj)
             {
               $clusterObj.ScheduleMaintenanceMode($startTime,$endTime,$reason,$Comment,"Recursive")
               $nodes = $clusterObj.GetRelatedMonitoringObjects($clusterNodeClass)
                if($nodes)
                   {
                   foreach($node in $nodes)
                     {
                       $message = $node.ToString()
                       WriteEvent "Putting node $message into maintenance mode by patching script in Contoso.Patching.Maintenance.xml mp." "1235"
                       }
                   }
              }
              $message = $($cluster.Computer).ToString()
              WriteEvent "Putting cluster computer $message into maintenance mode by patching script in Contoso.Patching.Maintenance.xml mp." "1236"
              New-MaintenanceWindow -StartTime $startTime -EndTime $endTime -MonitoringObject $cluster.Computer -Reason $reason -Comment $comment
          }
    }
   
    else
   {
     $message = $($agent.HostComputer.DisplayName).ToString()
     WriteEvent "Putting server $message into maintenance mode by patching script in Contoso.Patching.Maintenance.xml mp." "1237"
     New-MaintenanceWindow -StartTime $startTime -EndTime $endTime -MonitoringObject $agent.HostComputer -Reason $reason -Comment $comment
   }

   $Alert | Set-SCOMAlert -ResolutionState 255 -CustomField8 "Patching maintenance completed"
 }
 #WriteEvent "Ending patching script in Contoso.Patching.Maintenance.xml mp" "1238"

            </ScriptBody>
            <TimeoutSeconds>60</TimeoutSeconds>
          </WriteAction>
        </WriteActions>
      </Rule>
    </Rules>
  </Monitoring>
  <Presentation>
    <Folders>
      <Folder ID="Folder_5e3e9391b6394ab288bd1c95f83e90cd" Accessibility="Public" ParentFolder="SystemCenter!Microsoft.SystemCenter.Monitoring.ViewFolder.Root" />
    </Folders>
    <StringResources>
      <StringResource ID="Contoso.ConfigmgrInitiated.Reboot.Alert.Rule.AlertMessage" />
    </StringResources>
  </Presentation>
  <LanguagePacks>
    <LanguagePack ID="ENU" IsDefault="false">
      <DisplayStrings>
        <DisplayString ElementID="Contoso.Patching.Maintenance">
          <Name>Contoso Patching Maintenance</Name>
          <Description>Author: Parag Waghmare
Reason: Created to suppress the servers during reboots initiated by patching</Description>
        </DisplayString>
        <DisplayString ElementID="Folder_5e3e9391b6394ab288bd1c95f83e90cd">
          <Name>Contoso Patching Maintenance</Name>
        </DisplayString>
        <DisplayString ElementID="Contoso.ConfigmgrInitiated.Reboot.Alert.Rule">
          <Name>Contoso Reboot Initiated Alert</Name>
          <Description />
        </DisplayString>
        <DisplayString ElementID="Contoso.ConfigmgrInitiated.Reboot.Alert.Rule.AlertMessage">
          <Name>Contoso Reboot Initiated Alert</Name>
          <Description>Computer:{0}
EventSource:{1}
EventID:{2}
Event Description: {3}
</Description>
        </DisplayString>
        <DisplayString ElementID="Contoso.ConfigmgrInitiated.Reboot.Alert.Rule" SubElementID="DS">
          <Name>DS</Name>
        </DisplayString>
        <DisplayString ElementID="Contoso.ConfigmgrInitiated.Reboot.Alert.Rule" SubElementID="Alert">
          <Name>Alert</Name>
        </DisplayString>
        <DisplayString ElementID="Contoso.ConfigMgrInitiated.Reboot.Script.Rule">
          <Name>Contoso suppress patching server script</Name>
        </DisplayString>
      </DisplayStrings>
    </LanguagePack>
  </LanguagePacks>
</ManagementPack>