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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
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
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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
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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
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
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
Recently I saw some questions about why cluster infrastructure is only partially discovered and it is not monitored when all cluster services are healthy. I replied to some of those questions either internally or at the newsgroup, where I was trying to
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Attachment(s): Microsoft.Windows.2003.Cluster.Quick.Unofficial.Discovery.Fix.xml
Boris made this nice workflow in Visio. Please use it with your decision making when importing Windows 2003 Cluster Infrastructure management packs!
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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
