We recently carried out some work for a client who had a completely ruined installation of System Center Operations Manager (SCOM).
Who had done what to it, we may never know, but it was clear that the only fix was to start again. This was not such a bad thing as they did want to change the name of their Management Group anyway – which secretly lead us to believe that someone had been messing and trying to carry this out, hence the mess of the installation!
We went ahead and carried out a completely new installation of Operations Manager as this is what they wanted, however, if you are an administrator of Operations Manager, you will probably know about the potential for an absolute nightmare here – the old Management Group and the new Management Group now being referenced on the servers and end users machines (although in this case, they only wanted servers being monitored by Operations Manager).
We managed to resolve this issue by using a PowerShell script. We did not write this PowerShell script ourselves and we apologise now for not giving the credit where it is due, but we cannot remember where we got it from – if it’s you, let us know and we will update with credit.
The plan is very simple, go into the Operations Manager server, check for error EventID 20046 in the Event Viewer (which will give you the name of a server trying to report with an invalid Management Group) then edit and run the PowerShell script to remove the reportedly invalid Management Group from that server.
PowerShell Script to Remove SCOM Invalid Management Group
The PowerShell script we used is below, note these variables that you must enter per server:
- $ComputerName = The server name with the invalid management group
- $ManagementGroup = The name of the invalid management group
param(
$ComputerName = "SERVERNAME",
$ManagementGroup = "MGMT GROUP NAME"
)
Function Remove-SCOMManagementGroup ($ComputerName)
{
$sb = {
param($ManagementGroup,
$ComputerName)
Try {
$OMCfg = New-Object -ComObject AgentConfigManager.MgmtSvcCfg
} catch {
throw "$ComputerName doesn't have the SCOM 2012 agent installed"
}
$mgs = $OMCfg.GetManagementGroups() | %{$_.managementGroupName}
if ($mgs -contains $ManagementGroup) {
$OMCfg.RemoveManagementGroup($ManagementGroup)
return "$ManagementGroup removed from $ComputerName"
} else {
return "$ComputerName does not report to $ManagementGroup"
}
}
Invoke-Command -ScriptBlock $sb -ComputerName $ComputerName -ArgumentList @($ManagementGroup,$ComputerName)
}
Remove-SCOMManagementGroup -ManagementGroup $ManagementGroup -ComputerName $ComputerNameOnce the PowerShell script has completed, you either need to restart the Microsoft Monitoring Agent service (Service Name is: HealthService) on the affected machine or reboot it.
If you then go into your server Control Panel and then into the Microsoft Monitoring Agent applet, you should now see that you only have the corrent new Management Group on there and that the invalid old one has been removed.
System Center Orchestrator
Of course, if you know how to use System Center Orchestrator and you have it installed in your environment, you can setup a new Runbook to check for EventID 20046 and then trigger the PowerShell script from there.
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