I was recently working with a dynamic group membership situation where we needed to include all of the sub-OU’s within the group. Our approach was to create a dynamic membership which matched based on a wildcard value that would exist because the sub-OU naming includes the top level OU naming. The result was just what we needed so we didn’t need to specify each sub-OU’s membership in the group. I was going to write up the details on this, but I found that someone else had done so (it’s great being a member of a community that shares information like this – way to go!). The following is a subset of his article available a http://00shep.blogspot.com/2012/03/scom-groups-dyanmic-members-ou.html
“Note the highest level OU for which you want to capture all sub-systems
- Go to one of the systems in SCOM and view the properties in “Monitoring”. One of the values will be “Organizational Unit” > Copy it
- Create your Dynamic Members inclusion rule
- Select “Windows Computer” > Add
- Property = “Organizational Unit”
- Operator = “Matches Wildcard”
- Value = I* + < OU that you copied in step 2>
e.g.
*OU=XenApp-65,OU=Servers,DC=MYDOMAIN,DC=com”
