Failed to get Monitor - Start Maintenance Mode

Hi,
Am struggling with a problem with Orchestrator R2 apparently not recognising output from a Monitor alert step in a run book. I have Orchestrator 2012R2 and SCOM 2012R2 configured. Orchestrator is co-located with VMM2012R2.
Operating system for all is Windows server 2012
I have installed and deployed the Orchestrator R2 Integration packs which in deployment manager state version 7.2
I have checked to ensure that both Orchestrator, SCOM and VMM are all R2 (They are)
I am looking to create a runbook that will start services as per the link here: (Thanks to Jakob for this)
http://blog.coretech.dk/jgs/sco-2012-scom-2012-best-practice-monitor-alert-and-restart-a-service/
I can test the connection to the SCOM server - fine
I create the monitor alert step and test - fine
I create the start maintenance mode step and get the following error:
Filed to get Monitor. The exception was "An object of class MonitoringObject with ID 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000 was not found.".
I have used the runbook tester and the monitoringobjectfullname is present in the output for the start maintenance mode step.
However irrespective of the variable that I attempt to use in start maintenance mode step I continue to get the same error as above.
The monitor alert step completes with no issues, but everytime on the start maint mode step it fails.
I have validated the SCOM connection account has all the appropriate SCOM permissions. I have also provided it with full domain admin rights, but with no success.
Any ideas on how to troubleshoot this would be welcomed
Thanks in advance

Hi Stefan,
A little extension of your approach as this is only usable if you want to set a Windows Server into Maintenance Mode - but not e.g. for Distributed Apps
I just required the "Start Maintenance Mode" Activity to set a distributed app and a websphere application server instance (which is not linked with the server itself). And I did not find any documentation how to fill the field - only for Windows
Computer.
So I'll post my result on how to get the value which needs to be entered within the "Monitor" field:
(PowerShell - Use "Activities > System > Run .Net Script > Type: Powershell)
Import-Module OperationsManager
$object= Get-SCOMMonitoringObject -displayname "<desired object displayname";
# or use the ID instead:
# $object = Get-SCOMMonitoringObject -ID "<ID of object>";
$name = $object.displayname;
$fullname = $object.fullname;
$monitor = $name + " : " + $fullname
Then put $monitor within "published data" and you can use it directly in the "Start Maintenance Mode" Activity.
This only works if the runbook is running on a SCOM management server as it requires the SCOM Powershell Module. But at least it somehow shows the syntax.
Best Regards
Klaus
Austria

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