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Wednesday, June 25, 2008 2:06 AM

MPViewer 1.7 - Now works with latest E12 MP

Thanks Stefan for reporting that MPViewer export to HTML functionality didn’t work with the latest version of the E12 MP. This was caused by a bug in MPViewer. The new version is attached to this blog post. I also some more minor features such as frequency
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Attachment(s): MPViewer.zip
Wednesday, June 04, 2008 6:36 PM

Monitoring Windows 2008 Clusters

Are you interested in participating in a private beta program for the Windows 2008 Cluster management pack? If so, please send me an email ( borisyan@microsoft.com ). Please note that I am only able to provide access to the beta bits to 10 customers so
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Tuesday, June 03, 2008 11:21 PM

On Demand Detection

A really useful feature of Health Explorer in Operations Manager is the ability to force the agent recalculate health of a particular monitor. One the most common uses for this is when you want to confirm that the action that you took actually fixed the
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Attachment(s): NTServiceBasedDiscoverySample.MP.xml
Tuesday, June 03, 2008 8:17 PM

MPViewer 1.5 - Performance rules and monitors

I finally had a bit of time to work on improving MPViewer so here is a new a version. The main improvement in this version is additional visibility into performance rules and monitors. Now there are two new columns which show you the performance object
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Attachment(s): MPViewer.zip
Saturday, April 19, 2008 1:44 AM

What do YOU think about the Cluster Management Pack?

Several weeks ago we released an update to Windows 2003 Cluster MP to address several customer initiated issues. I am very interested to hear what you think about the cluster MP and what has been your experience in deploying and using it, or things that
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Friday, April 04, 2008 7:21 PM

Cluster MP Upgrade

Looks like there is some confusion as to the what exactly needs to be done in order to upgrade to the latest version of the cluster MP. Here is a flow chart that should clear things up:
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Wednesday, April 02, 2008 5:04 PM

Windows 2003 Cluster Management Pack update is now available on MP Catalog

We have just posted an updated version of the Windows 2003 Cluster Management Pack. This update resolves several customer initiated issues. This update also includes some changes in order to prepare for the Windows 2008 Cluster MP. Here is a link to the
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Tuesday, April 01, 2008 2:00 AM

MP authoring samples - NT service based discovery

One of the things that I have been wanting to cover in this blog is advanced MP authoring. Lately I have been spending a fair bit of time doing MP related work so I am going to start blogging on this subject. My main focus will be to provide samples as
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Tuesday, March 04, 2008 11:08 PM

The Cluster MP is ready!

The long awaited cluster management pack for Windows 2003 is finally ready. The MP package contains the management pack files as well as a QFE. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=ac7f42f5-33e9-453d-a923-171c8e1e8e55&DisplayLang=en
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Thursday, February 28, 2008 8:10 PM

Why cant I configure an event view to show events collected only by my rule?

While writing a management pack today, I came across an interesting issue. When you create an event view, you can specify in the criteria of the event view that it should only show events collected by a specific rule. When you do this, a dialog comes
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Tuesday, December 11, 2007 6:22 PM

Creating a new task with overridable parameters

Couple of days ago I saw a question on one of the newsgroups regarding creating a task where the operator can specify one or more parameters that are used by the task when launching the task. Unfortunately it’s not possible to create such as task today
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Attachment(s): SampleMP.UserConfigurableTaskParameters.xml
Tuesday, November 27, 2007 7:06 PM

Targeting poster

Below is a link to a targeting poster that we have created to help select the proper targets when creating rules and monitors. The poster illustrates some of the most common scenarios and provides best practices on how to properly target rules and monitors.
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