SCOM ACS User Logon Report

This is a report I created for the Audit Collection Services of System Center Operations Manager that lists all successful user logons details in all servers.

Adding SCOM 2012 Product Key

After I installed SCOM 2012 it was showing as Evaluation version. In order to add the product key you need to run a powershell cmdlet as described in the kb article http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2699998

To check the current license, open an Operations Manager Shell and run

Get-SCOMManagementGroup | ft skuforlicense, version, timeofexpiration –a

To register your product run

Set-SCOMLicense -ProductId "Product-Key-Here"

The license got updated after I restarted the server

Using Microsoft SQL Report Builder 3 to create custom SCOM 2007 R2 reports

In SCOM 2007 R2 if you click "Design a new report" from the Reporting tab you will notice that Report Builder version 1 runs, even if you have version 3 installed because SCOM still opens the old link.
To use 3 instead navigate to the C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSRS10_50.SCOM\Reporting Services\ReportServer\ReportBuilder


Make a copy of "ReportBuilder_3_0_0_0.application"

Rename "ReportBuilder.application"

Rename the copy of version 3 to "ReportBuilder.application"


Now when you "Design a new report", SCOM will run Report Builder 3.

Monitoring Custom Event Log using SCOM 2007 R2

I am going to configure SCOM to send email alerts whenever an event gets logged in a custom log "Applications and Services Logs"

From the Operations Console go to Authoring tab -> Rules (under Management Pack Objects)