Windows Scheduled Task and PowerShell Scheduled Job Management Pack Guide for Operations Manager 2012 Published: July 2014 Version 1.2.0.500 Copyright ©2007 – 2014 Raphael Burri, All rights reserved Terms of Use All management packs should be thoroughly tested before being introduced into a production Operations Manager environment. The author of this management pack accepts no responsibility or liability for negative impact as a result of use of this management pack in your Operations Manager environment. Contents Revision History .......................................................................................................................................... 4 Scheduled Task and PowerShell Scheduled Job Management Pack ............................................................... 5 Remark on backward compatibility ....................................................................................................................... 5 Windows Server 2003 ........................................................................................................................................... 5 Operations Manager 2007 .................................................................................................................................... 5 Supported Configurations ..................................................................................................................................... 6 Getting Started ........................................................................................................................................... 7 Before importing the Management Pack .............................................................................................................. 7 Upgrade notes ....................................................................................................................................................... 8 Customizing the management pack ...................................................................................................................... 8 Enabling Task Scheduler Logging ........................................................................................................................... 9 Elements of the Windows Scheduled Task management pack .................................................................... 10 Class Model ......................................................................................................................................................... 10 Object Discovery ................................................................................................................................................. 11 Monitors .............................................................................................................................................................. 13 Last Result Successful Monitor – Enabled by default .......................................................................................... 13 Last Result Successful Monitor - PSJob Error Count – Enabled by default ........................................................... 14 Long Running Task Monitor – Disabled by default .............................................................................................. 15 Next Run Defined Monitor – Disabled by default ................................................................................................ 15 Next Scheduled Execution Skipped Monitor – Disabled by default ..................................................................... 16 Triggers Defined Monitor – Disabled by default .................................................................................................. 16 Current Status Monitor (Windows 2003 only - legacy)........................................................................................ 17 Scheduled Tasks History Enabled Monitor .......................................................................................................... 17 Rules .................................................................................................................................................................... 18 Scheduled Task Job Duration Collection Rule – Disabled by default ................................................................... 18 Internal rules ....................................................................................................................................................... 18 Tasks .................................................................................................................................................................... 19 Using the Management Pack ..................................................................................................................... 20 Console Views ..................................................................................................................................................... 20 Configuring Overrides ......................................................................................................................................... 21 Appendix .................................................................................................................................................. 22 Event Reference .................................................................................................................................................. 22 Script Reference .................................................................................................................................................. 23 Feedback ............................................................................................................................................................. 23 Revision History Release Date Changes February, 2008 Original release of this guide May, 2008 Version 1.0.1.40 July, 2008 Version 1.0.1.45 August, 2008 Version 1.0.1.46 September, 2008 Version 1.0.1.61 December, 2008 Version 1.0.1.75 January, 2009 Version 1.1.0.10 (Windows 2008 support added) February, 2009 Version 1.1.0.12 (Task return code override implemented as RegEx) April, 2009 Version 1.1.1.0 - Localization support for Server 2008 (all languages) - Localization support for Server 2003 (Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish) - Server 2003: Class for tasks with a repetitive schedule added (daily, weekly or monthly) June, 2014 Version 1.2.0.500 - Windows 2012 / 2012 R2 support - PowerShell Scheduled Job Support - Timing adjustments - RegEx discovery filter on task name and path exposed as override - Only task and PS job result monitors are active by default. All other monitors and rule are disabled by default. - Discoveries as now disabled. Quick Start OR MPs added. - Windows 2003 support stopped. MP may still be used “as is” Windows Scheduled Task Management Pack Guide RB 4/23 Scheduled Task and PowerShell Scheduled Job Management Pack The Windows Scheduled Task and PowerShell Scheduled Job management pack monitors tasks and PowerShell scheduled jobs on Windows Server 2008, 2008 R2, 2012 and 2012 R2. Support for Windows Server 2003 is limited. The management pack provides discovery, availability, performance and configuration monitors plus tasks. The following aspects of scheduled tasks and jobs are covered: - task return code respectively PowerShell job exception monitor - long running task/job monitor (disabled by default) - task/job execution was skipped monitor - task/job is without a trigger monitor - task/job schedule has expired monitor - task/job execution time collection rule The management pack requires at least Operations Manager 2012 RTM. Remark on backward compatibility Windows Server 2003 Starting with version 1.2 (June 2014), further development and support for Windows 2003 has been stopped. Actually it has been so since 2009). The provided Custom.Windows.TaskScheduler.Windows2003.Monitoring.mp management pack may still be used “as is” to monitor scheduled tasks on Windows Server 2003. Automatically managing Scheduled Tasks on Windows Server 2003 is not a trivial task. The operating system offers little to no support for WMI or VBScript when it comes to managing scheduled tasks. Using WMI, only tasks created by the at.exe command can be configured but not tasks created by the much more powerful GUI wizard. The only tool that reliably allows managing all Scheduled Tasks is ‘schtasks.exe’. This management pack makes use of this command line tool and parses its output. Operations Manager 2007 Version 1.2 does no longer support SCOM 2007. The latest management pack version 1.1 is still available for download. However; it does not support Windows 2012 and PowerShell scheduled jobs. Windows Scheduled Task Management Pack Guide RB 5/23 Supported Configurations The PKI Certificate Validation Management Pack for Operations Manager 2012 supports the following agent configurations: Agent Operating System Remarks Windows Server 2012 Task Scheduler Logging must be enabled. (including R2) Windows Server 2008 R2 Task Scheduler Logging must be enabled. PowerShell scheduled jobs are only supported when PowerShell >= 3.0 is installed Windows Server 2008 Task Scheduler Logging must be enabled. PowerShell >= 2.0 must be installed. PowerShell scheduled jobs are only supported when PowerShell >= 3.0 is installed Windows Server 2003 System locale must be: Dutch English French German Italian Portuguese Spanish PowerShell is not required as the legacy 2003 MP is using VBScript. Windows Scheduled