Monitor your wife with SCOM…
Yep it’s possible! *
Dieter Wijckmans
@Dieterwijckmans
http://scug.be/dieter
* Results may vary. Can’t be held accountable for the outcome 
Dieter Wijckmans
They see me rollin’
@DieterWijckmans
Managing
Consultant
[email protected]
CDM MVP since
2014
http://scug.be/dieter
Motto
It’s doing common things uncommonly well
that brings success…
Agenda
Think outside the box
The next big thing in Cross platform monitoring
PowerShell your way in
Let’s see about that wife monitoring stuff
Think outside
the box
Get ready to start
Check what you want to do
Check who to involve
Check how you want to proceed
Linux
Distro’s?
Installing the agent on Linux…
Mechanism
Check servers for correct certificate
Check Correct FQDN certificate on Linux
machine
Connection made over SSH
Package copied to Linux
Install + feedback to MS
Final Certificate signing
See it in action
What tools can I use?
Put Scomness in your script
$API = New-Object –ComObject “MOM.ScriptAPI”
$PropertyBag = $API.CreatePropertyBag()
$PropertyBag.addValue(“name”,”value”)
$PropertyBag
Test the script
Run the script without the $propertybag to check value
$API.Return($Propertybag)
Collection vs Monitoring
Performance
Collection
vs
Monitoring
Combining
the
powers
Creating the script monitor with MP Author
So what about
that wife
monitoring
thing…
Search for capable devices
Search for API’s
Nest: https://github.com/gboudreau/nest-api
Netatmo: http://dev.netatmo.com/doc/
Flukso:
https://docs.google.com/file/d/13wB85cPx_5nykBq3ZShnClHa1rpkRE5edNElu
MqxrFaCRlvJrD8Bn_6UDCs9/edit?pli=1
Wemo: http://developers.belkin.com/wemo/sdk
Synology: http://www.synology.com/englobal/support/surveillance_station_web_api
Let the monitoring begin!
Key
Takeaways
Try to get as many devices in 1 monitoring tool
Look to find your way in…
PowerShell is the way to go…
Links
Links
Scug blog: http://scug.be/dieter/
SCOM 2012 link overview blog: SCOM 2012 overview link blog
Monitor your home with SCOM
• http://scug.be/dieter/2014/02/19/monitor-your-home-with-scom/
Installing Linux agents walkthroughs
• http://blogs.technet.com/b/kevinholman/archive/2012/03/18/deploy
ing-unix-linux-agents-using-opsmgr-2012.aspx
• http://stefanroth.net/2014/02/03/scom-linux-agent-deploymentsigned-certificate-verification-operation-was-not-successful/