Disabling/Enabling multiple rules/monitors/discoveries at once

re: Disabling/Enabling multiple rules/monitors/discoveries at once

Ron — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 00:59:22 GMT

Doesn't seem to work with 2007 SP1?

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Mark Webster — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 18:33:02 GMT

Truly a brilliant tool. Thanks for making this available.

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Richard — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 00:44:17 GMT

Boris, incorporate some versioning into these tools.

BTW: The tools are invaluable to me, thanks.

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Roger Morell — Fri, 09 May 2008 15:30:27 GMT

Hi!

This is an essential tool that should be expanded and, preferably added to the Authoring pane.

What I lack is the ability to select a MP, have three options, Monitors, Rules, Discoveries. And then disable the selected options for the entire MP.

We use this for different classes of servers that should not have all the monitoring running.

Keep up the good work

Roger

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re: Disabling/Enabling multiple rules/monitors/discoveries at once

Ted Hacker — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:05:23 GMT

Is there a trick to getting it to work? When opening a connection to a management server the OverrideCreator.exe goes unresponsive under Vista from my PC. Under XP, opening the executable produces an error.

My Management Group is running SP1. Will that matter? I see the other comment about it not working with SP1, but no reply.

re: Disabling/Enabling multiple rules/monitors/discoveries at once

Boris Yanushpolsky — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 01:06:10 GMT

Do you have the OpsMgr console installed on the computer? Do you have admin access to the RMS (OpsMgr permissions rather than Windows permissions)?

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Yair — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 11:07:09 GMT

The source code for this will be invaluable!

re: Disabling/Enabling multiple rules/monitors/discoveries at once

cpero — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 08:17:21 GMT

Unfortunately i wrote my own version of this before I found this article (DOH !!) However, the one I wrote is much slower since I process each over-ride one at a time with a verify and then an update.

It has to be possible, I just havent found the code (or searched the SDK help file hard enough), to create a collection in which all of the over-rides are verified and then written all at once.

Are there any hints or snippits on this? It takes a LONG time to process 100 over-rides one at a time. Of course it is still much faster than doing it manually.

Craig

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cpero — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 08:19:18 GMT

b.t.w... yours is MUCH nicer than what I wrote by a long shot. I took the approach of editing all rules/monitors/discoveries for the whole management pack versus grouping by class. Yours is definitely going in my toolkit.

re: Disabling/Enabling multiple rules/monitors/discoveries at once

Boris Yanushpolsky — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 21:28:28 GMT

What you can do is first create the overrides and only then call Verify or AcceptChanges.

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cpero — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 23:35:41 GMT

Thank you very much. I "JUST" figured out (minutes before you replied to this) that I can process all of the over-rides first and then call the "verify" and "accept changes" methods on the TargetManagementPack object instead of after EACH override (from the override object). I took a "stab" to see if it would work. Now what took 10 minutes takes 15 seconds.

Again, thanks for your reply.

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Boris Yanushpolsky — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 23:41:51 GMT

Awesome! Glad to hear this is working well for you.

re: Disabling/Enabling multiple rules/monitors/discoveries at once

Jan Skinnerup — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 16:24:01 GMT

This looks to be a very useful tool. However when I connect to my RMS the application just hangs saying "not responding". But it eats up 50% of my CPU.

I have Domain Admin rights on the server and the Domain Admin group is added to the Operations Manager Administrator in the admin console.

Any ideas?

re: Disabling/Enabling multiple rules/monitors/discoveries at once

Boris Yanushpolsky — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 06:14:39 GMT

Do you have a very large number of management packs imported or a very large number of overrides? Does the utility eventually load the data?

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Jan Skinnerup — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 11:32:33 GMT

I have 96 management packs imported right now and only a handfull of overrides. I haven't had the patience to let the utility run for more than 10 minutes yet... so I don't know if it eventually loads data.

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Boris Yanushpolsky — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 22:49:08 GMT

The reason I asked is to determine whether this is a performance issue in the utility or whether it hangs forever. This way I can better understand how to fix the issue for the next version.

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Jan Skinnerup — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 11:26:31 GMT

I had it running for four (4) hours last tuesday without it ever loading anything.

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Boris Yanushpolsky — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 22:01:19 GMT

Thanks. That confirms that the utility is running into a problem loading the information from the management group. I will try to take a look later next week.

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Bob Cornelissen — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 11:59:33 GMT

Hi Boris, same here for the not responding part. I have run it from a Vista workstation and on the RMS itself (win08 64bit). Both the same story. The override-explorer tool loads fine by the way. Thanks for looking into it.

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David Pavone — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 22:18:49 GMT

Hi Boris,

I am also running into the problem with the tool taking forever to load. I let it run for 2.5 hours. I have 200+ MP's loaded with loads of rules + monitors.

Looking forward to the fix - this is good stuff feel free to send me a message if you want me to try something. dpavone@gmail.com

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Stan — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 23:31:55 GMT

Cool tool, but if it can delete Overrides as well as disable or enable, that would be great also.

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Cyril — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 13:23:05 GMT

Hi Boris

I'm creating a similar tool to create overrides for rules and monitors (modify severity or priority). It works perfect for the monitors but for the rules it just works with some of them. Is there something special with the rules (for modifying alert severity or priority)?

There must be something wrong by passing the parameter "GenerateAlert" - I also tried to enumerate the corresponding ManagementPackWriteActionModule and pass the GUID to the parameter, but no success (it seems that it just accepts the name as parameter)...

Thanks and Greetings from Switzerland!

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Candace Jones — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 21:16:54 GMT

Hi Boris...

I was just wondering if this tool should work in SCOM RC?

thanks candy

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Boris Yanushpolsky — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 19:41:43 GMT

it should work

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re: Disabling/Enabling multiple rules/monitors/discoveries at once

kobile — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 11:47:34 GMT

Hi Boris,

the tool is running on scom r2 ,win2008 sp2, with a lot of MPs. after 2 hours it still in not responding state , the process consuming 13% cpu.

any updates regarding the problem ?

Kobi

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Fidelis — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:56:47 GMT

Hi Boris,

It's a great tool and it worked perfectly for me. Thanks a lot for making this tool.