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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,
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Attachment(s): ClusterMM.ps1
Monday, July 28, 2008 2:57 AM

Last contacted, better SQL query

My post about how to receive approximate last contacted time spawn good feedback and thanks to Robin Drake for rewriting my SQL script without use of cursors while producing single grid. Following is his version: use OperationsManager Go declare @substract
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Thursday, July 24, 2008 10:13 AM

Last contacted

Some customers not only want to know that health service hosted on the computer was not heart beating (remember, this is way different from our approach to recognize computer down, which BTW solely based on my own opinion, is rather unfortunate attempt
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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 11, 2008 11:18 PM

Backwards Compatibility Mapper fails to start event on OpsMgr 2007 SP1

Many of you (especially those trying to monitor Exchange using converted management pack) had noticed that with Operations Manager 2007 SP1, noisy event complaining about transient state of instance discovery appeared inside of agent’s event log rather
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Attachment(s): http://msutara.members.winisp.net/Blog/Workarounds/VirtualServer/Microsoft.Windows.Cluster.VirtualServer.DiscoveryFix.xml
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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Friday, February 22, 2008 5:45 PM

Operations Manager 2007 SP1 released to manufacturer!!!

It was announced today that team finally signed off on RTM Release Criteria! Hooray! We really came a long way to address customer initiated bugs, to address Watson (error reporting) bugs plus worked on performance improvements. Now it is just a small
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Saturday, February 02, 2008 10:27 PM

MOMScriptAPI other undocumented methods

With my last post , I started to look at undocumented methods of MOMScriptAPI . These methods are published thru IDL file (interface definition language) as well are visible using tools like oleview.exe . Now I will try to document those APIs so they
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Thursday, January 24, 2008 4:52 PM

MOMScriptAPI.CreateTypedPropertyBag Method

It came to my attention that CreateTypedPropertyBag method of MOMScriptAPI is not documented in MSDN (or at least not published at the time I’m writing this post). I will try to offer a bit of insight for this API as well as provide a sample for its usage.
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Monday, January 21, 2008 11:53 AM

Operations Manager 2007 SP1 tracing

As described in this KB article , OpsMgr2007 is using ETW/WPP tracing which was not very customer consumable. The conversion to readable text was required with the use of TMF files which did not ship with RTM version of the product. So decision was made
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