Comments on: SCOM Remote Maintenance Mode Scheduler 2.0 R2 Scripts

By: Stephen Weber

Stephen Weber — Mon, 16 May 2011 15:13:19 +0000

Tim, this looks like a superb package for something which looks to take an inordinate amount of scripting, for all the other workarounds I’ve seen on the net. I’ve installed and configured it (I’m in 2007 R2) per all your instructions, and can create a scheduled event – it shows on both the SCOM scheduler list as well as the Task Scheduler – but the problem is, when the task is supposed to activate, it doesn’t. I’ve tried it a number of times, and I’m not sure, but I think I’ve see a quick instance of the shell pop up (with red text) for less than a second at start time. I run it on our SCOM server, which also serves as our RMS server as well.

Any thoughts you might have would be much appreciated – thanks in advance.

By: Random Decoy

Random Decoy — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 17:04:16 +0000

I was getting same error as Keithk from my RMS (SCOM 2007 R2 on Windows 2003 Standard x64 w/SP2), “Object reference not set to an instance of the object”. I followed his lead by removing punctuation from the comment. Then, I retried creating the task. Without the punctuation I was able to create the task successfully. Thanks for the tool!

By: Keithk

Keithk — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 21:11:26 +0000

When I tried putting a group after browsing the list of group I got the error:
“Object reference not set to an instance of an object.”

I found that in the comments section I was using a date that contained “/” (minus the quotes)which caused the problem. When I changed the date from “/” to use “-” it worked fine. For example a comment using 2/4/2011 would not work, but a comment using 2-4-2011 would work.

By: user

user — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 12:20:10 +0000

The script has problems with dynamic filled groups,
for my citrix group the script returns 0 computers,
if I change this line:
$computers = $groupInstance.GetRelatedMonitoringObjects($windowsComputerClass,[Microsoft.EnterpriseManagement.Common.TraversalDepth]::OneLevel)

$computers = $groupInstance.GetRelatedMonitoringObjects()

it returns 22 computers.

By: Tim McFadden

Tim McFadden — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 17:56:57 +0000

Check your firewall or permisions

By: Brian Small

Brian Small — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 16:31:15 +0000

Hello,
I am running SCOM scheduler 2.0 R2 and have added the new scripts as instructed. However, I get the following error when running the GUI: “Object reference not set to an instance of the object”. Not sure what this means. Please advise.

By: Mats Augustsson

Mats Augustsson — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 20:09:57 +0000

Hi!

I have just start to use your nice script to scheduler SCOM agent into maintenance mode. Just one problem I don’t get the AM/PM when I choose a Start Date and Time

Maybe it can be that we use 24 hours clock.

How can I solve this?

By: Frankg

Frankg — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 17:04:23 +0000

Hi,

Thanks for keeping this tool so great !

Is there a way to put UNIX/Linux serveur in maintenance with your tool ?

By: Ernie

Ernie — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 21:31:22 +0000

Hello,

I want to allow operator or advanced operators to be able to put computers into maintance mode without the need to them to be members of the SCOM Administrators group. How do I do this by running the script with a Run As Account and Run As profile?
Please advise, Thanks

By: Keithk

Keithk — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 20:42:35 +0000

I would really like to run this script at the opsmgr command shell, however when I try to run the script and entering parameters, it doesn’t seem to work. Should I just be able to run this at the OpsMgr command shell? Any suggestions how I can do this?