Notes on System Center Operations Manager

Notes, troubleshooting, development and comments related to System Center Operations Manager

OpsMgr 2007 R2 - Alert Storm Recognition (possible rule misconfiguration) for SDK alert

I described the mitigation for alert storm in the one of my previous post. This mitigation is...

Author: MSutara Date: 09/29/2009

Tool: OpsMgr 2007 - RuntimeHealthExplorer

Did you ever wonder what is the state of the instance as known to the runtime (health service)...

Author: MSutara Date: 06/03/2009

News: OpsMgr 2007 R2 RTM ...

System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 RTM!! New Functionality - Operations Manager 2007 R2...

Author: MSutara Date: 05/22/2009

What is new: OpsMgr 2007 R2 - How to reset monitor state with recovery?

Cameron had a nice example of using new R2 feature process monitoring in real life, but that raised...

Author: MSutara Date: 04/20/2009

What is new: New version of cluster MP released !

Pleased to announce that a small but important update to the Cluster Management Pack has now been...

Author: MSutara Date: 04/10/2009

Tool: OpsMgr 2007 R2 - What to do with Secure Reference Override Alert?

Subject of this post is an advanced authoring combining usage of the security features of OpsMgr...

Author: MSutara Date: 04/09/2009

What is new: OpsMgr 2007 R2 - Discover multiple cluster network names (Virtual Server)

Multiple network names scenario Customer has cluster resource group with multiple network name...

Author: MSutara Date: 03/27/2009

What is new: OpsMgr 2007 R2 - Alert Storm Recognition (possible rule misconfiguration)

What is new? OpsMgr 2007 R2 Release candidate finally released and can be downloaded from Connect....

Author: MSutara Date: 03/26/2009

What is new: OpsMgr 2007 R2 RC released! (publicly available)

We are very excited to announce the System Center Operations Manger 2007 R2 Release Candidate now...

Author: MSutara Date: 03/25/2009

Dependency Monitor Hotfix to increase health state calculation reliability

I write this to respond to the release of the hotfix. I would like to bring such fix to your...

Author: MSutara Date: 02/27/2009

Windows Server 2008 Cluster MP released to web !!!

In my opinion, Boris did kick a** job driving this puppy out, especially knowing that Windows hotfix...

Author: MSutara Date: 02/12/2009

How to: Reset monitor when closing alert?

Not something I recommend, one would say I almost regret we did not prohibit closing alerts...

Author: MSutara Date: 02/02/2009

HOWTO: “restart” monitoring of my environment? (another version UPDATE)

My initial and last posts described restart monitoring tool representing my idea how one can...

Author: MSutara Date: 01/20/2009

HOWTO: “restart” monitoring of my environment? (UPDATE)

My last post tried to introduce a tool which restarts monitoring of OpsMgr environment. Cameron (and...

Author: MSutara Date: 01/13/2009

HOWTO: “restart” monitoring of my environment?

My friend Cameron and I discussed following issue as one of the challenges he occasionally faces...

Author: MSutara Date: 01/09/2009

Clustered Virtual Server 2005 R2 and Operations Manager 2007

Problem: Monitoring of clustered virtual machines (guests) is unreliable with Operations Manager...

Author: MSutara Date: 01/07/2009

Computer group and dependency health rollup in OpsMgr 2007 R2 Beta release

… will be broken when you need to create group while inheriting from...

Author: MSutara Date: 11/26/2008

Where is thy instance monitored and how that affects dependency monitor state?

This area is rather complex and multiple factors weight in while configuration service makes the...

Author: MSutara Date: 11/14/2008

What is next OpsMgr 2007? It is R2!!!

Announced in Brad Anderson’s keynote today in Barcelona at Teched IT Pro. The public web site was...

Author: MSutara Date: 11/03/2008

HealthServiceWatcher alerts and connector.

Recently I had heard from couple of customers (internal and external) about their trouble with...

Author: MSutara Date: 10/14/2008

Cluster and maintenance mode

Maintenance mode and cluster became a big issue for most of our customers. Starting MM for physical...

Author: MSutara Date: 09/05/2008

Last contacted, better SQL query

My post about how to receive approximate last contacted time spawn good feedback and thanks to Robin...

Author: MSutara Date: 07/28/2008

“Net view” as diagnostic used when heartbeat is missing

This all started as question about how “Computer Not Reachable” works. It has been asked in...

Author: MSutara Date: 07/24/2008

Last contacted

Some customers not only want to know that health service hosted on the computer was not heart...

Author: MSutara Date: 07/24/2008

Customizing monitor from sealed MP ("Device Status Check").

I used Device Status Check monitor in my last post when providing realistic sample of how to define...

Author: MSutara Date: 07/18/2008

Dynamic alert settings for monitor which never had any (done thru overrides)

Tim from QuickenLoans contacted me and wanted verification about ability to use AlertMessage...

Author: MSutara Date: 07/17/2008

Monitor from sealed MP generated alert and I do not like its description …

… Is there anything I can do? Our usual answer was that not really and you need to create your...

Author: MSutara Date: 07/15/2008

Cluster resource groups are not monitored! Is there anything I can do?

Recently I saw some questions about why cluster infrastructure is only partially discovered and it...

Author: MSutara Date: 05/03/2008

Cluster Infrastructure Monitoring and Versions

Boris made this nice workflow in Visio. Please use it with your decision making when importing...

Author: MSutara Date: 04/04/2008

Remove old management packs after breaking change was introduced in newer version

New version of cluster monitoring management pack was released. Hooray! This release requires...

Author: MSutara Date: 04/03/2008

UPDATE: NEW MP for cluster services (MSCS) monitoring was released!

In this post, I mentioned that new version of management pack responsible for monitoring of cluster...

Author: MSutara Date: 04/02/2008

UPDATE: MP for monitoring cluster services (MSCS) finally web-released!

I made a mistake in my post announcing web release of management packs for monitoring of Failover...

Author: MSutara Date: 03/18/2008

Backwards Compatibility Mapper fails to start event on OpsMgr 2007 SP1

Many of you (especially those trying to monitor Exchange using converted management pack) had...

Author: MSutara Date: 03/12/2008

MP for monitoring cluster services (MSCS) finally web-released!

Cluster Management M-Packs finally hit our MP catalog. These management packs monitor health of the...

Author: MSutara Date: 03/04/2008

HOWTO: Registry Attribute Definition explained

Maybe you already needed to use probe module to retrieve data from registry, check the existence of...

Author: MSutara Date: 02/28/2008

Operations Manager 2007 SP1 released to manufacturer!!!

It was announced today that team finally signed off on RTM Release Criteria! Hooray! We really came...

Author: MSutara Date: 02/22/2008

MOMScriptAPI other undocumented methods

With my last post, I started to look at undocumented methods of MOMScriptAPI. These methods are...

Author: MSutara Date: 02/03/2008

MOMScriptAPI.CreateTypedPropertyBag Method

It came to my attention that CreateTypedPropertyBag method of MOMScriptAPI is not documented in MSDN...

Author: MSutara Date: 01/24/2008

Operations Manager 2007 SP1 tracing

As described in this KB article, OpsMgr2007 is using ETW/WPP tracing which was not very customer...

Author: MSutara Date: 01/21/2008

VIDEO: Reset And Recalculate Health State

Our TechNet web site and especially its video section went finally live with a training video I did...

Author: MSutara Date: 01/09/2008

Maintenance Mode And Server Availability (Another Solution)

Maintenance mode expired, monitored server is still down, but there is no alert in the alert view of...

Author: MSutara Date: 01/05/2008

Maintenance Mode And Server Availability

Maintenance mode expired, monitored server is still down, but there is no alert in the alert view of...

Author: MSutara Date: 01/04/2008

Alert Severity and Priority use with override

Some of you may know already that with Operations Manager SP1 RC we allow for overriding alert...

Author: MSutara Date: 12/17/2007

Parameter replacements and its use with alert

Many of you probably know already, that alert’s description can use parameter replacements to...

Author: MSutara Date: 12/10/2007

Operations Manager displays alerts, task results and other data thru different dialogs and views....

Author: MSutara Date: 12/07/2007

Data Item XML - creation time

Today I received what I later considered an interesting request for help. Customer wanted to use the...

Author: MSutara Date: 11/30/2007

Data Item XML - Appllication Log File

This post explains main data types which are involved in monitoring of application log files....

Author: MSutara Date: 11/27/2007

Data Item XML - series

I started series describing some of the data items floating thru the workflows of Operations Manager...

Author: MSutara Date: 11/21/2007

Data Item XML - ConsolidatorData

This data type is created by consolidator condition module, which is one of the modules that creates...

Author: MSutara Date: 11/21/2007

Data Item XML - MonitorTaskDataType

This data type is used as input for recovery task. Recovery can be executed on diagnostic or it can...

Author: MSutara Date: 11/20/2007

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