Most of us SCOM users have our servers and infrastructure pieces monitored – but more often than not, the hypervisor remains a big black box where there is no level of monitoring whatsoever. Any kind of outages that come from that lack of monitoring blindside our administrators, and people eventually grow to lose confidence in the platform itself.

When doing testing and development I frequently want to clean up all of the records between releases to give myself a fresh start. Using the list view is helpful, but can be slow if you have more than 100 or so records to delete. The below script is run via the Scripts – Background view to take the results of your list view and delete the records, logging if they are successfully deleted or not with each one.

Good news! Cookdown Alert Sync 1.0 is now avaliable, allowing ServiceNow incidents to be automatically raised for SCOM alerts That’s great… now who is Cookdown? and how does Alert Sync work?