As our regular readers know, we have been in the process of deploying the RTM version of MOM 2005 into our production environment. To this point the deployment has been nothing short of brilliant. MOM 2005 works seamlessly with the MOM 2000 installation...

Since my parents are in town this week, I decided to take a few days off and play tour guide. As we were taking in the sites and attractions, it occurred to me that I really hadn't been to many of the "tourist-y" locations around the area (and I've been...

This morning I participated in a concall with a big client and the topic was brought to MOM and the pain points in managing MOM. Now, make no mistake, MOM 2000 and 2005 have some very serious deficiencies when it comes to infrastructure management, but...

A number of years ago, my son asked me what I did for a living. Apparently, it had been a topic of discussion in his class that day. At the time, he was about 5, so I decided the safe answer was to say “I work with computers” to which he responded...

If you have been reading this blog, and thanks to all three of you who do, then you’ve probably read my articles concerning data collection and MOM 2000. Well, as MOM 2005 RC2 is being rolled into our production environment (We dogfood everything...

// Joceline // (aka Number 5)

As you might imagine, with the scale and diversity of our environment, one of the most valuable things to the success of an Operations team is information. Information on server load, traffic patterns, server inventory, hosting costs, events, alerts,...