Notes on System Center Operations Manager

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

My initial and last posts described restart monitoring tool representing my idea how one can approach “clean up” of the monitoring (scenario described in the first post). Since then I received some additional and valid feedback and mainly thanks to Microsoft Read More...

Posted Monday, January 19, 2009 9:30 PM by MSutara | 0 Comments

Attachment(s): http://msutara.members.winisp.net/Blog/Tools/RestartMonitoring/RestartMonitoringTool.zip

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

My last post tried to introduce a tool which restarts monitoring of OpsMgr environment. Cameron (and others) is (are) actively looking at its use and here is an update based on some feedback. 1. Following was a state view for computer group which I achieved Read More...

Posted Tuesday, January 13, 2009 12:18 PM by MSutara | 1 Comments

Attachment(s): http://msutara.members.winisp.net/Blog/Tools/RestartMonitoring/RestartMonitoringTool.zip

HOWTO: “restart” monitoring of my environment?

My friend Cameron and I discussed following issue as one of the challenges he occasionally faces with his customers. In order to minimize his TCO and manual interventions, I promised to help even when such design request is not making it in feature set Read More...

Posted Friday, January 09, 2009 2:45 PM by MSutara | 3 Comments

Attachment(s): http://msutara.members.winisp.net/Blog/Tools/RestartMonitoring/RestartMonitoringTool.zip

Clustered Virtual Server 2005 R2 and Operations Manager 2007

Problem: Monitoring of clustered virtual machines (guests) is unreliable with Operations Manager 2007. Instances of Virtual Machine are not monitored without any apparent reason. Scenario: Having simple wolfpack cluster (implemented thru Microsoft Cluster Read More...

Posted Wednesday, January 07, 2009 3:20 PM by MSutara | 0 Comments

Attachment(s): Microsoft.Virtualization.VirtualServer.2005R2.Cluster.Fix.Unofficial.xml