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SCOM monitor recovery task does not work

Bojan Zivkovic 581 Reputation points
2025-04-08T07:56:23.88+00:00

Hi, I have created service monitor (testing on Spooler service) using Windows Service template. Having done that, I configured simply one-liner PS script to start stopped service (as recovery task), but it never works for some reason. I tried both of these but still service is not getting started by recovery task:

Get-Service -Name $Target/Property[Type="SystemCenter1!Microsoft.SystemCenter.NTService"]/ServiceName$ | Start-Service

Get-Service -Name Spooler | Start-Service

How to troubleshoot this?

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  1. Graham 176 Reputation points
    2025-05-03T08:39:36.5766667+00:00

    You can't use PowerShell in the SCOM Authoring wizards.

    Options:

    1. Use VBScript

    Set wmi = GetObject("winmgmts://./root/cimv2")

    Set svc = wmi.Get("Win32_Service.Name='Spooler'")

    rc = svc.StartService

    1. Download the Community PowerShell MP from SquaredUp \ Cookdown - https://ds.squaredup.com/cookdown/powershell-mp/ - and use the PowerShell recovery that this provides. You code will work fine albeit the service name is hard-coded.

    Get-Service -Name Spooler | Start-Service

    For completeness, depending on your settings, just auto-starting the service risks an endless of loop of the service stopping, the recovery auto starting it etc. so it is best to include some logic in your PowerShell script (or VB Script) to only restart a set number of times.

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