SCOM Unit Monitor Based on Memory Percentage %

There technically isn't a perf counter for memory % used/free. You can use the following counters from the Windows Server management packs. They're very good indicators for memory pressure. However, if you want to just know when servers have violated a basic percentage of installed physical memory you have to build your own scripted unit monitor.

In researching this I stumbled on a forum post here.

I highjacked most of this script but made some alterations to leverage more out of the box SCOM functionality.

Take the following script and build a Time Script Three State Monitor (see below)

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Option Explicit

Dim oAPI, oBag, oArgs
Dim objWMIService, objItem, colItems
Dim strComputer, strList
Dim memused, mempercent

Set oAPI = CreateObject("MOM.ScriptAPI")
Set oBag = oAPI.CreatePropertyBag()
Set oArgs = WScript.Arguments

On Error Resume Next

strComputer = "."

set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:\\" _
& strComputer & "\root\cimv2")

set colItems = objWMIService.ExecQuery _
("Select * from Win32_OperatingSystem")
　

For Each objItem in colItems

memused = objItem.TotalVisibleMemorySize - objItem.FreePhysicalMemory
mempercent = memused/objItem.TotalVisibleMemorySize
mempercent = mempercent * 100
mempercent = Cint(mempercent)

Next

Call oBag.AddValue("Percent",mempercent)
Call oAPI.Return(oBag)
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Best practice is to disable by default. Later you can set overrides for any monitor to enable it where applicable.

Be careful when setting your schedule. I have a fairly aggressive schedule here. This is a fairly light script but the cummulative of monitors can add up to impact performance.

Paste the script above into the script field. Set a file name with a .vbs extension.

Configure your preferred thresholds.

I'm setting a pretty generic override for 2008 Computer Group.