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Did you ever wonder what is the state of the instance as known to the runtime (health service) monitoring it? Did you believe that some state changes are unaccounted for? Did you see discrepancy in Health Explorer? I believe many of you may answer yes
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System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 RTM!! New Functionality - Operations Manager 2007 R2 introduces key new and enhanced functionality, including: · Enhanced application performance and availability across heterogeneous platforms · Delivers monitoring
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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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Subject of this post is an advanced authoring combining usage of the security features of OpsMgr 2007 with workflows while trying to explain how to troubleshoot alerts which may be raised at the end of such process. On the simple example, I display tool
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Attachment(s): Microsoft.SystemCenter.Runtime.RunAs.xml
Multiple network names scenario Customer has cluster resource group with multiple network name resources associated with IP address resource. This scenario was described by one of the customers: Configuring DTC in cluster resource group that also contains
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What is new? OpsMgr 2007 R2 Release candidate finally released and can be downloaded from Connect . What is new in this release? PLENTY! Some of you get a glimpse at those features while evaluating Beta, some will see most improvement for the first time
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We are very excited to announce the System Center Operations Manger 2007 R2 Release Candidate now available on connect! Operations Manager 2007 R2 Release Candidate Operations Manager 2007 R2 introduces key new and enhanced functionality, including: Enhanced
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I write this to respond to the release of the hotfix . I would like to bring such fix to your attention and for your consideration. This fix should increase reliability of health state monitoring for numerous cases where dependency monitor is used. Issue
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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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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
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Attachment(s): http://msutara.members.winisp.net/Blog/Tools/ResetMonitorConnector/ResetMonitorConnector.zip
My initial and last posts described restart monitoring tool representing my idea how one can approach “clean up” of the monitoring (scenario described in the first post). Since then I received some additional and valid feedback and mainly thanks to Microsoft
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Attachment(s): http://msutara.members.winisp.net/Blog/Tools/RestartMonitoring/RestartMonitoringTool.zip
My last post tried to introduce a tool which restarts monitoring of OpsMgr environment. Cameron (and others) is (are) actively looking at its use and here is an update based on some feedback. 1. Following was a state view for computer group which I achieved
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Attachment(s): http://msutara.members.winisp.net/Blog/Tools/RestartMonitoring/RestartMonitoringTool.zip
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
… 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
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