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Friday, September 05, 2008 6:54 PM

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,
Posted by MSutara | 2 Comments
Attachment(s): ClusterMM.ps1
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
Posted by MSutara | 4 Comments
Attachment(s): Microsoft.SystemCenter.Community.Availability.xml
Saturday, May 03, 2008 2:19 PM

Cluster resource groups are not monitored! Is there anything I can do?

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
Posted by MSutara | 1 Comments
Attachment(s): Microsoft.Windows.2003.Cluster.Quick.Unofficial.Discovery.Fix.xml
Friday, April 04, 2008 11:31 AM

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!
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Thursday, April 03, 2008 1:18 PM

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
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Wednesday, April 02, 2008 10:27 AM

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
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Tuesday, March 18, 2008 8:03 PM

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
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Tuesday, March 04, 2008 11:19 AM

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
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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
Posted by MSutara | 2 Comments
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
Posted by MSutara | 2 Comments
Attachment(s): Microsoft.SystemCenter.OperationsManager.AvailabilityWorkaround.xml
 
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