Notes on System Center Operations Manager
Notes, troubleshooting, development and comments related to System Center Operations Manager
I described the mitigation for alert storm in the one of my previous post. This mitigation is...
Date: 09/29/2009
Did you ever wonder what is the state of the instance as known to the runtime (health service)...
Date: 06/03/2009
System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 RTM!! New Functionality - Operations Manager 2007 R2...
Date: 05/22/2009
Cameron had a nice example of using new R2 feature process monitoring in real life, but that raised...
Date: 04/20/2009
Pleased to announce that a small but important update to the Cluster Management Pack has now been...
Date: 04/10/2009
Subject of this post is an advanced authoring combining usage of the security features of OpsMgr...
Date: 04/09/2009
Multiple network names scenario Customer has cluster resource group with multiple network name...
Date: 03/27/2009
What is new? OpsMgr 2007 R2 Release candidate finally released and can be downloaded from Connect....
Date: 03/26/2009
We are very excited to announce the System Center Operations Manger 2007 R2 Release Candidate now...
Date: 03/25/2009
I write this to respond to the release of the hotfix. I would like to bring such fix to your...
Date: 02/27/2009
In my opinion, Boris did kick a** job driving this puppy out, especially knowing that Windows hotfix...
Date: 02/12/2009
Not something I recommend, one would say I almost regret we did not prohibit closing alerts...
Date: 02/02/2009
My initial and last posts described restart monitoring tool representing my idea how one can...
Date: 01/20/2009
My last post tried to introduce a tool which restarts monitoring of OpsMgr environment. Cameron (and...
Date: 01/13/2009
My friend Cameron and I discussed following issue as one of the challenges he occasionally faces...
Date: 01/09/2009
Problem: Monitoring of clustered virtual machines (guests) is unreliable with Operations Manager...
Date: 01/07/2009
… will be broken when you need to create group while inheriting from...
Date: 11/26/2008
This area is rather complex and multiple factors weight in while configuration service makes the...
Date: 11/14/2008
Announced in Brad Anderson’s keynote today in Barcelona at Teched IT Pro. The public web site was...
Date: 11/03/2008
Recently I had heard from couple of customers (internal and external) about their trouble with...
Date: 10/14/2008
Maintenance mode and cluster became a big issue for most of our customers. Starting MM for physical...
Date: 09/05/2008
My post about how to receive approximate last contacted time spawn good feedback and thanks to Robin...
Date: 07/28/2008
This all started as question about how “Computer Not Reachable” works. It has been asked in...
Date: 07/24/2008
Some customers not only want to know that health service hosted on the computer was not heart...
Date: 07/24/2008
I used Device Status Check monitor in my last post when providing realistic sample of how to define...
Date: 07/18/2008
Tim from QuickenLoans contacted me and wanted verification about ability to use AlertMessage...
Date: 07/17/2008
… Is there anything I can do? Our usual answer was that not really and you need to create your...
Date: 07/15/2008
Recently I saw some questions about why cluster infrastructure is only partially discovered and it...
Date: 05/03/2008
Boris made this nice workflow in Visio. Please use it with your decision making when importing...
Date: 04/04/2008
New version of cluster monitoring management pack was released. Hooray! This release requires...
Date: 04/03/2008
In this post, I mentioned that new version of management pack responsible for monitoring of cluster...
Date: 04/02/2008
I made a mistake in my post announcing web release of management packs for monitoring of Failover...
Date: 03/18/2008
Many of you (especially those trying to monitor Exchange using converted management pack) had...
Date: 03/12/2008
Cluster Management M-Packs finally hit our MP catalog. These management packs monitor health of the...
Date: 03/04/2008
Maybe you already needed to use probe module to retrieve data from registry, check the existence of...
Date: 02/28/2008
It was announced today that team finally signed off on RTM Release Criteria! Hooray! We really came...
Date: 02/22/2008
With my last post, I started to look at undocumented methods of MOMScriptAPI. These methods are...
Date: 02/03/2008
It came to my attention that CreateTypedPropertyBag method of MOMScriptAPI is not documented in MSDN...
Date: 01/24/2008
As described in this KB article, OpsMgr2007 is using ETW/WPP tracing which was not very customer...
Date: 01/21/2008
Our TechNet web site and especially its video section went finally live with a training video I did...
Date: 01/09/2008
Maintenance mode expired, monitored server is still down, but there is no alert in the alert view of...
Date: 01/05/2008
Maintenance mode expired, monitored server is still down, but there is no alert in the alert view of...
Date: 01/04/2008
Some of you may know already that with Operations Manager SP1 RC we allow for overriding alert...
Date: 12/17/2007
Many of you probably know already, that alert’s description can use parameter replacements to...
Date: 12/10/2007
Operations Manager displays alerts, task results and other data thru different dialogs and views....
Date: 12/07/2007
Today I received what I later considered an interesting request for help. Customer wanted to use the...
Date: 11/30/2007
This post explains main data types which are involved in monitoring of application log files....
Date: 11/27/2007
I started series describing some of the data items floating thru the workflows of Operations Manager...
Date: 11/21/2007
This data type is created by consolidator condition module, which is one of the modules that creates...
Date: 11/21/2007
This data type is used as input for recovery task. Recovery can be executed on diagnostic or it can...
Date: 11/20/2007