Create a daily report that shows IIS App Pool and Site States/Health at a specific time.

Question

Hi All,
I need to create a report that will be sent out by 6AM everyday to a DG. The report needs to show the Health / State of selected Application Pools, Sites, and Windows services running on ~20 production servers. The servers show up
in SCOM just fine. ('Application Pool State', 'Web Site State', etc.) I can see what I need in the Monitoring view, but did not find a way to create the report I need in Reporting or Authoring.
I've looked through the documentation and the forums and have not found what I need...at least I don't think so.  I just did not see how I can capture the Health/State at a specific time for the selected Objects and send out
the results.
Seems like this would be a common request. Basically, we just need to know that our web applications are running before the start or business, without manually logging in to each server and typing a report. 
I've scripted some of what we need with WMI/PowerShell, and piped out to an email. The problem is that several of our servers our locked down or don't have the appropriate components installed to work with remote scripting. (don't ask...life in a
big corporation!)
Since we have SCOM installed throughout the network, I am hoping it will get us the info we need. Any help or ideas would be very appreciated!
Thanks in advance!!!
~ noob

Answer 1

Hello Zrider,
Well, first of you need to make sure you have the Reporting feature installed on SCOM.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh298611.aspx
Next, try navigating to the Reporting node, then go to the Microsoft Generic Library report folder and open the Health report.
Now, select Object.
Click Options in order to select the required Classes. Type 'Application Pool' for example. Select the version you want and click OK.
Now, click Search. Select the instances you want.
Go back to Options and type and select the class 'Web Site'. Apply the filter then Search. Repeat the process for any other class/instance you want then click ok.
Run the report. If the information displayed is the one you want, go to the top left area, click File, Schedule.
Done.
This is one way. You've mentioned using powershell with wmi but probably you are using PS remoting to the targets and of course not all hosts are enabled for remoting, or some might run Windows Server 2003 withouth powershell installed.
An alternative would be to run a PS script against the SCOM server and send the reports via email. This works even if you don't have the SCOM Reporting role installed!
You could do something like:
Import-Module OperationsManager
$WebSiteClass = Get-SCOMClass -DisplayName "Web Site"
$IISAppPoolClass = Get-SCOMClass -DisplayName "IIS Application Pool"
$WebSites = Get-SCOMClassInstance -Class $WebSiteClass
$IISApps = Get-SCOMClassInstance -Class $IISAppPoolClass
$WebSites | select IsAvailable, HealthState, Path, DisplayName
$IISApps | select IsAvailable, HealthState, Path, DisplayName
That will get you the basic info you need to setup an array and send them through email.
I hope that helps.
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