Importing monitor types and adding adapter for SCOM

Launch the Administration Console.

Select the Adapters folder, right-click, and select Import Monitor Types And Add Adapter > SCOM. The SCOM Object Types screen is displayed.

Alternatively, you can also launch Import and Add Monitor Types from Administration Console > Tools > Import Monitor Types And Add Adapter > SCOM.

The following table lists the input fields for Configuration and Control tabs.

Configuration and Control tabs for SCOM

Input Fields	Description
Configuration Tab
Instance Name	Specify a name for the adapter instance. Note that it is recommended to specify the FQDN name as the device name instead of the IP address or the partial DNS name. This avoids the creation of a duplicate device.
Source Agent	Select the name/IP address of the BMC TrueSight Infrastructure Management Server/local agent to import the monitor type.
RMS Hostname/IP	Specify the name/IP address of the computer hosting the SCOM Agent to be connected.
RMS Domain Name	Specify the RMS Domain name to connect to SCOM.
User Name	Specify a user name required to connect to SCOM.
Password	Specify a password required to connect to SCOM.
Skip Import	If you select the check box and click Next, the Add SCOM Adapter screen is displayed to directly add the adapter with already imported monitor types. If this option is disabled, it indicates that no monitor types are imported.
Control Tab
Statistics Poll Interval	Specify the time interval between two consecutive statistical data polls. Default is 15 minutes.
Statistics Poll Timeout	Specify the timeout period for each poll of statistical data. Default is 2 minutes.
Configuration Poll Interval	Specify the time interval between two consecutive configuration data polls. Default is 24 hours (One day).
Configuration Poll Timeout	Specify the timeout period for each configuration data poll. Default is 2 minutes.

Note

Collection frequency depends on the SCOM system. On large SCOM systems, configure the statistics poll interval to at least 5 minutes because it takes time for SCOM to return the data. Running many queries on a large system might cause performance issues with the SCOM server and no data might be returned. This might result in gaps being present in Infrastructure Management.

If the SCOM rule is configured to collect information more frequently than the SCOM adapter, the SCOM adapter averages the data points collected by the rule during the collection interval of the SCOM adapter. For example, if the SCOM adapter collection interval is 15 minutes and the SCOM rule collection interval is one minute, 15 values are returned to the SCOM adapter when it queries the SCOM rule. The SCOM adapter averages those 15 values and returns that value for its collection interval. Because the result is an average, the value returned during the SCOM adapter collection interval might not be a whole number.

Click Next and select the monitor types to import. Click the + icon to expand the monitor types. Select the monitor type that you want to import or click Select All to import all the monitor types.
Note
It might take some time for all monitor types to appear.
- The green check mark indicates the imported monitor types.
- The green check mark with a lock indicates that the monitor type is in use.
- The X indicates that the imported object type is marked to be deleted.
After importing the monitor types, select the monitor types to be monitored.
Click Close to exit without importing any of the monitor types.

Importing monitor types and adding adapter for SCOM

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