Hello, Got a bit of a problem.... Is there a way for SCOM to test if a nic has been assigned a DHCP address (IP4) instead of static? Ta, John Bradshaw

Hi John WMI would be the way to go. http://www.powershellpro.com/powershell-tutorial-introduction/powershell-wmi-methods/ http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa394595(v=vs.85).aspx I'd say this is more of a configuration setting test than performance and availability monitoring. It could be done by SCOM but you might want to consider SCCM (if you have it deployed) or even Orchestrator to do the test outside of SCOM. Cheers GrahamRegards Graham New System Center 2012 Blog! - http://www.systemcentersolutions.co.uk View OpsMgr tips and tricks at http://systemcentersolutions.wordpress.com/

Hi John WMI would be the way to go. http://www.powershellpro.com/powershell-tutorial-introduction/powershell-wmi-methods/ http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa394595(v=vs.85).aspx I'd say this is more of a configuration setting test than performance and availability monitoring. It could be done by SCOM but you might want to consider SCCM (if you have it deployed) or even Orchestrator to do the test outside of SCOM. Cheers GrahamRegards Graham New System Center 2012 Blog! - http://www.systemcentersolutions.co.uk View OpsMgr tips and tricks at http://systemcentersolutions.wordpress.com/

Hi John WMI would be the way to go. http://www.powershellpro.com/powershell-tutorial-introduction/powershell-wmi-methods/ http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa394595(v=vs.85).aspx I'd say this is more of a configuration setting test than performance and availability monitoring. It could be done by SCOM but you might want to consider SCCM (if you have it deployed) or even Orchestrator to do the test outside of SCOM. Cheers GrahamRegards Graham New System Center 2012 Blog! - http://www.systemcentersolutions.co.uk View OpsMgr tips and tricks at http://systemcentersolutions.wordpress.com/

Thx again Graham, I'll check this out soon and reply back JB

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Hi JB, As this thread has been quiet for a while, we assume that the issue has been resolved. At this time, we will mark it as "Answered" as the previous steps should be helpful for many similar scenarios. In addition, wed love to hear your feedback about the solution. By sharing your experience you can help other community members facing similar problems. Thanks,Yog Li TechNet Community Support

Hi Graham, Sorry for the long delay. Is it better to use SCCM (we do have it, but only just toying with it for now)? Can u get alerts from SCCM if a server was using a Static address but is now DHCP (BTW, we get this when some VMWARE updates are applied occassionally). Thx, John

Hi John First question is whether you actually need to get a SCOM alert about this? And how often do you need to do the check? With SCCM 2012 there is settings management (used to be called Desired Configuration Management) and this can link into Service Manager to create incidents. But if it only happens after VMware updates then I'd also be tempted to do this as an Orchestrator Runbook rather which as part of the updates process, you run at the end to list any servers where the setting has changed. Cheers GrahamRegards Graham New System Center 2012 Blog! - http://www.systemcentersolutions.co.uk View OpsMgr tips and tricks at http://systemcentersolutions.wordpress.com/

Hi John First question is whether you actually need to get a SCOM alert about this? And how often do you need to do the check? With SCCM 2012 there is settings management (used to be called Desired Configuration Management) and this can link into Service Manager to create incidents. But if it only happens after VMware updates then I'd also be tempted to do this as an Orchestrator Runbook rather which as part of the updates process, you run at the end to list any servers where the setting has changed. Cheers GrahamRegards Graham New System Center 2012 Blog! - http://www.systemcentersolutions.co.uk View OpsMgr tips and tricks at http://systemcentersolutions.wordpress.com/

Thx again Graham. We unfortunately have not implemented Service Mgr or Orchestrator yet. My thought at this stage, pls correct me if I'm going too far astray on this, is to: 1. Use SCCM (as you mentioned previously) to check if a server is on DHCP 2. Create an Event on the SCCM server 3. Have SCOM monitor that. Does that sound feasible? Cheers, JB