Notes on System Center Operations Manager

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

What is new: New version of cluster MP released !

Pleased to announce that a small but important update to the Cluster Management Pack has now been released. This update focuses on improving scalability of the Management Pack. The following summarizes the changes to the MP: · Introduce cook-down for Read More...

Posted Friday, April 10, 2009 7:30 AM by MSutara | 1 Comments

Windows Server 2008 Cluster MP released to web !!!

In my opinion, Boris did kick a** job driving this puppy out, especially knowing that Windows hotfix is required for its functionality. This one should help monitoring infrastructure of clustered RMS with future releases of OpsMgr 2007 R2 as well (not Read More...

Posted Thursday, February 12, 2009 4:29 PM by MSutara | 2 Comments

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

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

Cluster Infrastructure Monitoring and Versions

Boris made this nice workflow in Visio. Please use it with your decision making when importing Windows 2003 Cluster Infrastructure management packs! Read More...

Posted Friday, April 04, 2008 11:31 AM by MSutara | 0 Comments

Remove old management packs after breaking change was introduced in newer version

New version of cluster monitoring management pack was released . Hooray! This release requires removing previously imported version due to breaking changes introduced. Breaking change is a big problem, unfortunately was impossible to avoid as it had to Read More...

Posted Thursday, April 03, 2008 1:18 PM by MSutara | 0 Comments

UPDATE: NEW MP for cluster services (MSCS) monitoring was released!

In this post , I mentioned that new version of management pack responsible for monitoring of cluster infrastructure will be available shortly. Release management takes its time here, but now I can announce that it is finally available @ catalog or can Read More...

Posted Wednesday, April 02, 2008 10:27 AM by MSutara | 1 Comments

UPDATE: MP for monitoring cluster services (MSCS) finally web-released!

I made a mistake in my post announcing web release of management packs for monitoring of Failover Clusters. I posted incorrect requirements to meet prior importing management packs. I will correct that information now, especially for OpsMgr 2007 SP1 RC Read More...

Posted Tuesday, March 18, 2008 8:03 PM by MSutara | 1 Comments

MP for monitoring cluster services (MSCS) finally web-released!

Cluster Management M-Packs finally hit our MP catalog . These management packs monitor health of the Windows Server 2003 clusters and are designed to improve the availability, performance, and security of your Windows Server 2003 cluster deployment Getting Read More...

Posted Tuesday, March 04, 2008 11:19 AM by MSutara | 1 Comments