If you commit changes after a rule change, the management server pushes the new rules at the next heartbeat interval. (By default this is set at every 10 seconds). If you don't commit changes, then the new rule is pushed on the next client configuration...

One thing that was unclear to me was the significance or use of the MOM event stream. Somehow I just didn't make the connection between the event stream, alerts, and rules. Our documentation didn't seem to make this clear to me, and it wasn't immediately...

One thing that was unclear to me was the significance or use of the MOM event stream. For instance, many of the MOM 2005 tasks that you launch from the MOM Operator's console do not display results directly to the operator console directly. For instance...

I ran into a problem today where when I set up discovery rules and forced a computer scan, I received a slew of Access Denied errors from computers that are part of the discovery rule. After much troubleshooting as to why the problem was occuring, I found...