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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
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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
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Attachment(s): Microsoft.SystemCenter.Community.Monitors.MPs.zip
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
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Attachment(s): Microsoft.SystemCenter.Runtime.RunAs.xml
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
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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
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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
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Attachment(s): http://msutara.members.winisp.net/Blog/Tools/ResetMonitorConnector/ResetMonitorConnector.zip
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
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Attachment(s): http://msutara.members.winisp.net/Blog/Tools/RestartMonitoring/RestartMonitoringTool.zip
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
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Attachment(s): http://msutara.members.winisp.net/Blog/Tools/RestartMonitoring/RestartMonitoringTool.zip
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
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Attachment(s): http://msutara.members.winisp.net/Blog/Tools/RestartMonitoring/RestartMonitoringTool.zip
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
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Attachment(s): Microsoft.Virtualization.VirtualServer.2005R2.Cluster.Fix.Unofficial.xml
… 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
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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
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Attachment(s): Microsoft.SystemCenter.Community.InstanceSpace.xml
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
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Attachment(s): HealthServiceWatcherConnector.zip
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,
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Attachment(s): ClusterMM.ps1
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
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