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URL Monitoring Part III – The Monitors

This entry is part of the following series: URL Monitoring Part I – The Design URL Monitoring Part II – The Classes and Discoveries URL Monitoring Part III – The Monitors Creating the monitors was by far the most complex part of this solution because Read More...
Posted Tuesday, July 07, 2009 10:22 PM by rslaten | 0 Comments
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URL Monitoring Part II – The Classes and Discoveries

This entry is part of the following series: URL Monitoring Part I – The Design URL Monitoring Part II – The Classes and Discoveries URL Monitoring Part III – The Monitors Each of the 3 web applications has its own class. The applicable discovery queries Read More...
Posted Tuesday, July 07, 2009 10:14 PM by rslaten | 0 Comments
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Custom URL Monitoring Part I – The Design

The out of the box Web Application template that exists in OpsMgr 2007 SP1 and R2 is useful but there are situations where it just doesn’t fit. Consider the following scenario: The Contoso Corporation’s global IT headquarters is located in Richardson, Read More...
Posted Tuesday, July 07, 2009 10:11 PM by rslaten | 0 Comments
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Attachment(s): Custom.WebsiteWatcher.Library.xml

Monitoring the Monitoring solution

What if OpsMgr is in a state where it is running but not working properly? Maybe your RMS is gray or the notification and alerting systems are down. How do you detect this condition so someone can take action to resolve it? Monitoring the console all Read More...
Posted Wednesday, February 25, 2009 11:14 PM by rslaten | 1 Comments
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Attachment(s): RMSHealth.zip

What do you do here?

Here at Microsoft I have had the opportunity to work in different roles on several teams all of which contained very smart people.  I have to say though, I am currently working with some of the most talented engineers of my career.  I work with Read More...
Posted Wednesday, February 25, 2009 2:17 AM by rslaten | 1 Comments
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Using a property bag to populate an alert description part II

Over a year ago I blogged about the proper syntax required to populate an alert description with data returned from a property bag. The syntax in the blog is correct but the idea of doing this confused some. I will describe below how to accomplish this Read More...
Posted Wednesday, February 25, 2009 1:06 AM by rslaten | 1 Comments
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Attachment(s): DataSourceDemo.xml

Exporting and importing user roles

I have a customer who has many management groups and wants to synchronize the user roles between them. There is no easy way to do this in the UI, but it can be done via PowerShell. One of my co-workers, Jonathan Almquist, blogged about this some time Read More...
Posted Monday, November 03, 2008 10:24 PM by rslaten | 1 Comments
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Attachment(s): UserRoleExporter ps1_.txt

The Mystery of the stuck alerts

Occasionally I run across an issue that requires immediate action be taken to resolve the problem while any root cause analysis is an afterthought. Last week I handled such an issue. My customer has a connector that was continually sending around 20 alerts Read More...
Posted Friday, October 17, 2008 8:13 PM by rslaten | 0 Comments
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Get all alerts within a certain time period

A co-worker of mine ran into an alert flood scenario and needed to resolve a large number of alerts. He tried the following PowerShell command: Get-Alert | where {$_.ResolutionState -eq "New"} | Resolve-Alert This eventually ended up throwing an out of Read More...
Posted Tuesday, September 02, 2008 3:59 PM by rslaten | 2 Comments
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Adding Run AS accounts using powershell

A customer of mine ran across a situation where they had to add a significant number of runas accounts to OpsMgr and didn't want to do it through the UI. The customer happened to have the account information handy and wanted to know how to script this. Read More...
Posted Wednesday, August 27, 2008 5:51 PM by rslaten | 0 Comments
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Event 5206

I was doing a health check for a customer and ran across the following warning event which occurred almost daily: Event ID: 5206 Event Description: In memory container (hash table System.Health.EntityStateChangeData) had to drop data because it reached Read More...
Posted Wednesday, August 27, 2008 5:42 PM by rslaten | 0 Comments
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New Role at Microsoft

This is my first post in 2008 and definitely won't be my last. In April I transitioned to a new role here at Microsoft. I was previously in Escalation Engineer for most of the System Center product line. I am now a dedicated support engineer focused exclusively Read More...
Posted Wednesday, August 27, 2008 5:33 PM by rslaten | 0 Comments
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MOM 2005 MCF throws an exception when UpdateAlerts() is called

After calling UpdateAlerts() an exception is returned: "Value does not fall within the expected range". DBGView will show the following output: [4680] [E] 04680.01796, (cdasmomconnectorframework.cpp::2114) Could not decode unknown vartype 36 ! [4680] Read More...
Posted Thursday, November 08, 2007 4:00 PM by rslaten | 0 Comments
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SNMPVarBinds and the Alert Description Field in OpsMgr 2007

I recently had the opportunity to learn a lot about SNMPVarBind values and populating those values in the Alert description Field from a monitor and rule. A customer was having difficulty determining the proper syntax to use for this and with the help Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 31, 2007 6:49 PM by rslaten | 0 Comments
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New System Center Product Group Blog

The System Center Product Group has started a new blog that will contain some useful high level information about the System Center product line. The first post is by Brad Anderson who is "the man" when it comes to the System Center branded products. Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 31, 2007 4:07 PM by rslaten | 0 Comments
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