Back in the saddle again
Sorry for my lengthily hiatus folks. I honestly never meant to leave you stranded! There was a lot going on, and most of it wasn’t OpsMgr related, so I neglected you, fair reader. But my 33rd birthday was on the 26th and with it I vowed to not do it to you all again, so I am back!
Hopefully in a day or 2 I’ll have a new post for you – How to get other information into OpsMgr.
What do I mean by other information? Well, in my test scenario, that will be the current stock price for a symbol – we’re going to use MSFT.
There are many many ways to get information directly into SCOM. I’m going to use what *I* think is the easiest method – and that’s a PowerShell script that queries for the given symbols last price and then writes that into a custom performance counter.
To prepare for it, make sure you’re running the most current version of PowerShell 2.0 (Which is CTP3, if you’re on Windows 7 though, you’re fine). If you have UAC enabled, you’ll also need to run this script in an elevated prompt.
I was hoping to have the post out for you today – but an extended power outage at home ended that dream.
So in short: I’m back.
