I have already explained in my previous article that why you shouldn’t discover every application for all Clients in multi-tenant environment; hence, disable their discoveries.
Now, we will learn how you can enable the discovery of an application client wise. Usually, how do you segregate the clients in multi-tenant environment? — Computer Groups. Refresh your memory here.
Pre-configuration information required:
- Group name of client’s computers.
- Management pack name of the application which needs to be enabled.
- Appropriate rights and permissions (SCOM Administrator)
Process:
Please follow these steps to enable the discovery of an application for a specific group of computers:
- Log on to one of the SCOM management servers
- Launch Operations Console
- Go to Authoring navigation pane > Management Pack Objects > Object Discoveries
- Click Scope > type SQL in “Look for” text box > select the appropriate targets that are related to newly installed MP and press OK button
Note: You should know which management pack do you want to override. Let’s take an example of SQL 2016 management pack.
- Identify the Object Discoveries that are targeting to Windows Server or Windows Computer
- Right click each Seed Discovery targeting Windows Server class > Override the Object Discovery > For a group
- Select the Computer Group
- Check the Enabled parameter name and set the Override Value to True; check the Frequency in seconds parameter and set the Override value to 86400, and select the customized management pack that you created while creating computer group, for e.g. “Groups – FCL” > Press OK
Note: By default, discovery runs every 14400 seconds (4 hours) that is usually unnecessary; therefore, change it to 86400 secs (24 hours)
Please repeat all the above steps for other SQL Seed Discoveries too (if needed).
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