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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
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
… 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
This all started as question about how “Computer Not Reachable” works. It has been asked in newsgroup and I thought I will help and provide some inside. First, I would like to repeat, that in my opinion regarding the fact that computer not reachable detection
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Attachment(s): Microsoft.SystemCenter.Community.Availability.xml
creating custom OpsMgr monitor while disabling original one
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Attachment(s): Microsoft.SystemCenter.NetworkDevice.Custom.xml
Using overrides to define alert for monitor state.
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Attachment(s): Microsoft.SystemCenter.NetworkDevice.Overrides.xml
… Is there anything I can do? Our usual answer was that not really and you need to create your custom monitor while disabling original one. I would like to take this opportunity and rephrase that answer with this post. First, couple of requirements must
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Attachment(s): Microsoft.SystemCenter.Community.Monitors.xml
Maybe you already needed to use probe module to retrieve data from registry, check the existence of registry key or similar task involving registry when for example discovering your custom managed entity space. In that case you definitely met < xsd:element
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