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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

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

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

“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 Read More...

Posted Thursday, July 24, 2008 3:25 PM by MSutara | 3 Comments


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

Customizing monitor from sealed MP ("Device Status Check").
creating custom OpsMgr monitor while disabling original one Read More...

Posted Friday, July 18, 2008 11:45 AM by MSutara | 1 Comments

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Attachment(s): Microsoft.SystemCenter.NetworkDevice.Custom.xml

Dynamic alert settings for monitor which never had any (done thru overrides)
Using overrides to define alert for monitor state. Read More...

Posted Thursday, July 17, 2008 9:00 AM by MSutara | 1 Comments

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Attachment(s): Microsoft.SystemCenter.NetworkDevice.Overrides.xml

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 Read More...

Posted Tuesday, July 15, 2008 5:58 PM by MSutara | 1 Comments

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

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 Read More...

Posted Thursday, February 28, 2008 12:45 PM by MSutara | 0 Comments

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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 Read More...

Posted Saturday, January 05, 2008 8:50 PM by MSutara | 0 Comments


Attachment(s): Microsoft.SystemCenter.OperationsManager.AvailabilityWorkaround.xml

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 Read More...

Posted Friday, January 04, 2008 11:11 AM by MSutara | 2 Comments


Attachment(s): Microsoft.SystemCenter.OperationsManager.AvailabilityWorkaround.xml

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 Read More...

Posted Monday, December 17, 2007 11:20 AM by MSutara | 1 Comments

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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 Read More...

Posted Monday, December 10, 2007 12:03 PM by MSutara | 1 Comments

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