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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 included out of the box with current deployment of OpsMgr 2007 R2 after system management packs were imported. As I failed to remember this post (which talks Read More...

Posted Tuesday, September 29, 2009 11:18 AM by MSutara | 0 Comments

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 a question about feature he wanted to use. Following is report of his issue and how we can help him to address his challenges using already existing feature Read More...

Posted Monday, April 20, 2009 10:28 AM by MSutara | 1 Comments


Attachment(s): Microsoft.SystemCenter.Community.Monitors.MPs.zip

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 2007 with workflows while trying to explain how to troubleshoot alerts which may be raised at the end of such process. On the simple example, I display tool Read More...

Posted Thursday, April 09, 2009 4:05 PM by MSutara | 3 Comments

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Attachment(s): Microsoft.SystemCenter.Runtime.RunAs.xml

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 resources associated with IP address resource. This scenario was described by one of the customers: Configuring DTC in cluster resource group that also contains Read More...

Posted Friday, March 27, 2009 1:34 PM by MSutara | 0 Comments

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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 . What is new in this release? PLENTY! Some of you get a glimpse at those features while evaluating Beta, some will see most improvement for the first time Read More...

Posted Wednesday, March 25, 2009 9:51 PM by MSutara | 0 Comments

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How to: Reset monitor when closing alert?
Not something I recommend , one would say I almost regret we did not prohibit closing alerts generated by monitor (especially when auto-resolve feature was used). But recently I learned about some ticketing systems closing alerts where it is unclear if Read More...

Posted Monday, February 02, 2009 7:59 PM by MSutara | 1 Comments


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

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

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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

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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

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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

Computer group and dependency health rollup in OpsMgr 2007 R2 Beta release
… will be broken when you need to create group while inheriting from Microsoft.SystemCenter.ComputerGroup. < ClassTypes > < ClassType ID = " TestCompterGroup.Group " Accessibility = " Public " Abstract = " false " Base = " SystemCenter!Microsoft.SystemCenter.ComputerGroup Read More...

Posted Wednesday, November 26, 2008 12:09 PM by MSutara | 0 Comments

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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 final decision, but I will try to provide somewhat simplified, rule of thumbs examples/points to help to make an educated guess while troubleshooting some Read More...

Posted Thursday, November 13, 2008 11:16 PM by MSutara | 2 Comments

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Attachment(s): Microsoft.SystemCenter.Community.InstanceSpace.xml

HealthServiceWatcher alerts and connector.
Recently I had heard from couple of customers (internal and external) about their trouble with ticketing alerts created from Health Service Watcher. Main complaint was related to the fact that alert is raised by instance of the watcher rather than instance Read More...

Posted Tuesday, October 14, 2008 8:00 PM by MSutara | 0 Comments


Attachment(s): HealthServiceWatcherConnector.zip

Cluster and maintenance mode
Maintenance mode and cluster became a big issue for most of our customers. Starting MM for physical computer serving as one of the cluster node causes FALSE-positives alerts raised from cluster infrastructure monitoring MP. Please accept our apologizes, Read More...

Posted Friday, September 05, 2008 6:54 PM by MSutara | 1 Comments


Attachment(s): ClusterMM.ps1

Last contacted, better SQL query
My post about how to receive approximate last contacted time spawn good feedback and thanks to Robin Drake for rewriting my SQL script without use of cursors while producing single grid. Following is his version: use OperationsManager Go declare @substract Read More...

Posted Monday, July 28, 2008 2:57 AM by MSutara | 5 Comments

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