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Thursday, July 24, 2008 3:25 PM

“Net view” as diagnostic used when heartbeat is missing

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
Friday, July 18, 2008 11:45 AM

Customizing monitor from sealed MP ("Device Status Check").

creating custom OpsMgr monitor while disabling original one
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Attachment(s): Microsoft.SystemCenter.NetworkDevice.Custom.xml
Thursday, July 17, 2008 9:00 AM

Dynamic alert settings for monitor which never had any (done thru overrides)

Using overrides to define alert for monitor state.
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Attachment(s): Microsoft.SystemCenter.NetworkDevice.Overrides.xml
Tuesday, July 15, 2008 5:58 PM

Monitor from sealed MP generated alert and I do not like its description …

… 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
Thursday, February 28, 2008 12:45 PM

HOWTO: Registry Attribute Definition explained

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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Saturday, January 05, 2008 8:50 PM

Maintenance Mode And Server Availability (Another Solution)

Maintenance mode expired, monitored server is still down, but there is no alert in the alert view of OpsMgr 2007 console indicating server being offline. In my previous post I tried to walk through one possible implementation of the workaround to recognize
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Attachment(s): Microsoft.SystemCenter.OperationsManager.AvailabilityWorkaround.xml
Friday, January 04, 2008 11:11 AM

Maintenance Mode And Server Availability

Maintenance mode expired, monitored server is still down, but there is no alert in the alert view of OpsMgr 2007 console indicating server being offline. This scenario is happening too often with current implementation of availability monitoring. What
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Attachment(s): Microsoft.SystemCenter.OperationsManager.AvailabilityWorkaround.xml
Monday, December 17, 2007 11:20 AM

Alert Severity and Priority use with override

Some of you may know already that with Operations Manager SP1 RC we allow for overriding alert severity and priority. What is little unfortunate is inconsistency between creating alert generating rule and overriding especially as first uses string describing
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Monday, December 10, 2007 12:03 PM

Parameter replacements and its use with alert

Many of you probably know already, that alert’s description can use parameter replacements to reference the value of any of the properties of the data type causing the alert to be raised in the first place. I tried to comment on some most commonly used
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Thursday, November 29, 2007 9:16 PM

Data Item XML - creation time

Today I received what I later considered an interesting request for help. Customer wanted to use the time of event causing alert to be used inside of this alert description. He realized that it would be the time of the first event triggering such alert
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Tuesday, November 27, 2007 5:47 PM

Data Item XML - Appllication Log File

This post explains main data types which are involved in monitoring of application log files. Depending on the monitor used, following data types are initially created by data source modules. Following is a sample of the data type created by System.ApplicationLog.GenericLogReader
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Tuesday, November 20, 2007 10:10 PM

Data Item XML - ConsolidatorData

This data type is created by consolidator condition module, which is one of the modules that creates new data item for its output. Luckily consolidator also appends its input into this newly created DT and it can be find inside of context. $Data/…$ context
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Tuesday, November 20, 2007 8:57 PM

Data Item XML - MonitorTaskDataType

This data type is used as input for recovery task. Recovery can be executed on diagnostic or it can be executed on the state change where later is always present because diagnostic is always associated with state change of monitor. Because this is input
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Tuesday, November 20, 2007 2:37 PM

Parameter replacements (part 4)

This post is to continue Parameter replacements series . So far I talked about all but Data replacements so now I will try to describe it little more. This context replacement is unfortunately most hard to use one of all … Data Context Parameters Some
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Saturday, November 17, 2007 3:00 PM

Parameter replacements (part 3)

To continue Parameter replacements series , let’s remind ourselves that context parameters can be used and will be replaced by the runtime with the actual parameter value. So far I talked about Config and MPElement replacements before and now I will try
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