Scheduled Task Monitoring compatibility

Custom.TaskSchedulerV2.PowerShellCompatible.Monitor (UnitMonitor)

The "Windows Task Scheduler and PS Job Monitoring" management pack uses PowerShell to discover and monitor scheduled tasks.
If Powershell is not installed, the management pack will fail to discover tasks and jobs.

Knowledge Base article:

Summary

PowerShell Version >= 2.0 is required for scheduled task and PowerShell scheduled job monitoring.

Resolutions

Download and install PowerShell 2.0 or later on this agent computer from www.microsoft.com

Element properties:

Target

Microsoft.Windows.OperatingSystem

Parent Monitor

System.Health.ConfigurationState

Category

ConfigurationHealth

Enabled

True

Alert Generate

True

Alert Severity

MatchMonitorHealth

Alert Priority

Normal

Alert Auto Resolve

True

Monitor Type

Custom.Windows.TaskSchedulerV2.Registry2StateMonitorType

Remotable

False

Accessibility

Internal

Alert Message

Task Scheduler Monitoring is not possible

PowerShell is not installed on computer {0} or the installed version is not compatible with PowerShell 2.0.

In order to monitor scheduled tasks, install the appropriate PowerShell environment (>= Version 2.0).

RunAs

Default

Source Code:

<UnitMonitor ID="Custom.TaskSchedulerV2.PowerShellCompatible.Monitor" Accessibility="Internal" Enabled="true" Target="Windows!Microsoft.Windows.OperatingSystem" ParentMonitorID="Health!System.Health.ConfigurationState" Remotable="false" Priority="Normal" TypeID="Custom.Windows.TaskSchedulerV2.Registry2StateMonitorType" ConfirmDelivery="false">

  <Category>ConfigurationHealth</Category>

  <AlertSettings AlertMessage="Custom.TaskSchedulerV2.PowerShellCompatible.Monitor_AlertMessage">

    <AlertOnState>Warning</AlertOnState>

    <AutoResolve>true</AutoResolve>

    <AlertPriority>Normal</AlertPriority>

    <AlertSeverity>MatchMonitorHealth</AlertSeverity>

    <AlertParameters>

      <AlertParameter1>$Target/Host/Property[Type="Windows!Microsoft.Windows.Computer"]/PrincipalName$</AlertParameter1>

    </AlertParameters>

  </AlertSettings>

  <OperationalStates>

    <OperationalState ID="PS2_Compatible" MonitorTypeStateID="FirstCondition" HealthState="Success"/>

    <OperationalState ID="NotPS2_Compatible" MonitorTypeStateID="SecondCondition" HealthState="Warning"/>

  </OperationalStates>

  <Configuration>

    <ComputerName>$Target/Host/Property[Type="Windows!Microsoft.Windows.Computer"]/PrincipalName$</ComputerName>

    <WindowsVersionRegEx>^6\.</WindowsVersionRegEx>

    <RegistryAttributeDefinitions>

      <!-- PoSh 1.0 & 2.0 -->

      <RegistryAttributeDefinition>

        <AttributeName>PSCompatibleVersionV1</AttributeName>

        <Path>SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Powershell\1\PowerShellEngine\PSCompatibleVersion</Path>

        <PathType>1</PathType>

        <AttributeType>1</AttributeType>

        <RegistryView>Default</RegistryView>

      </RegistryAttributeDefinition>

      <!-- PoSh >= 3.0 -->

      <RegistryAttributeDefinition>

        <AttributeName>PSCompatibleVersionV3</AttributeName>

        <Path>SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Powershell\3\PowerShellEngine\PSCompatibleVersion</Path>

        <PathType>1</PathType>

        <AttributeType>1</AttributeType>

        <RegistryView>Default</RegistryView>

      </RegistryAttributeDefinition>

    </RegistryAttributeDefinitions>

    <Frequency>3600</Frequency>

    <FirstExpression>

      <Or>

        <Expression>

          <RegExExpression>

            <ValueExpression>

              <XPathQuery Type="String">Values/PSCompatibleVersionV1</XPathQuery>

            </ValueExpression>

            <Operator>MatchesRegularExpression</Operator>

            <Pattern>2\.0</Pattern>

          </RegExExpression>

        </Expression>

        <Expression>

          <RegExExpression>

            <ValueExpression>

              <XPathQuery Type="String">Values/PSCompatibleVersionV3</XPathQuery>

            </ValueExpression>

            <Operator>MatchesRegularExpression</Operator>

            <Pattern>.\..</Pattern>

          </RegExExpression>

        </Expression>

      </Or>

    </FirstExpression>

    <SecondExpression>

      <And>

        <Expression>

          <RegExExpression>

            <ValueExpression>

              <XPathQuery Type="String">Values/PSCompatibleVersionV1</XPathQuery>

            </ValueExpression>

            <Operator>DoesNotMatchRegularExpression</Operator>

            <Pattern>2\.0</Pattern>

          </RegExExpression>

        </Expression>

        <Expression>

          <RegExExpression>

            <ValueExpression>

              <XPathQuery Type="String">Values/PSCompatibleVersionV3</XPathQuery>

            </ValueExpression>

            <Operator>DoesNotMatchRegularExpression</Operator>

            <Pattern>.\..</Pattern>

          </RegExExpression>

        </Expression>

      </And>

    </SecondExpression>

  </Configuration>

</UnitMonitor>