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Monday, October 05, 2009 6:24 PM

Understanding Monitors in OpsMgr 2007 part III – Dependency Monitors

This is part 3 (and last) of my series of posts describing monitors.  The first post, found here , discussed unit monitors, which are the engine of monitoring. The second post, found here , discussed aggregate monitors, the ‘umbrella’ monitor sitting
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Sunday, September 06, 2009 9:41 PM

Understanding Monitors in Opsmgr 2007 part II Aggregate Monitors

This is part 2 of my a series of posts describing monitors.  The first post discussed unit monitors and can be found here .  This post discusses aggregate monitors.  As mentioned in the first post, unit monitors can be thought of as the
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Sunday, August 30, 2009 7:54 PM

Understanding Monitors in OpsMgr 2007 Part I – Unit Monitors

At MMS 2009 I presented a topic on understanding monitors in OpsMgr 2007.  According to the feedback, that session was well received so I thought I would convert some of it to a series of blog entries. There are two key ways of delivering monitoring
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Sunday, August 30, 2009 6:53 AM

Monitoring File Size with Custom WMI Performance Counter

Have you ever needed to monitor the size of a file to ensure you were alerted when it’s size changed beyond certain values?  I had to help address this recently and at first glance, this may seem to be a good job for a script – and a script definitely
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Friday, July 17, 2009 6:20 PM

Understanding the R2 Process Monitoring Management Pack Templates

Management pack templates have been around since RTM of OpsMgr 2007 and R2 introduced a new one specifically for process monitoring.  This is a cool template and allows the ability to setup some useful process monitoring, but what is the wizard actually
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Monday, March 09, 2009 5:17 AM

Checking Management Packs for Best Practice Adherence

If you work with OpsMgr you work with management packs in some form - either using ones available from the Microsoft download library, ones available from 3rd parties or ones that you author yourself.  Either way, wouldn't it be cool if we had a
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Thursday, October 30, 2008 5:29 PM

Sample Linked Report MP

I've seen several posts on various forums where folks are looking for samples showing how to build an MP containing linked reports. The report authoring guide refers to some sample files but, those files don't exist anywhere. I just finished up some linked
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Attachment(s): CustomOpsMgrReportsMPforDemo.xml
Thursday, October 23, 2008 6:45 PM

Grouping Windows Computer Objects and Health Service Watcher Objects - updated

In my original post I gave the XML required to associate windows computer objects and health service watcher objects - but I didn't walk through exactly how to set this all up.  I've updated the post with a walkthrough of how to put all the pieces
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Friday, October 03, 2008 4:38 PM

Granular Targeting in OpsMgr 2007

Understanding the various targeting options and when to use each is something every OpsMgr admin will face at some point.  To help explain options I wrote an article how targeting works and when to use each option.  The article appears in the
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Sunday, June 29, 2008 5:45 AM

The Authoring Console or the Operations Console?

Which tool is best to use for authoring? The answer 'it depends' is very applicable here. One key difference that might help you decide - when authoring is done in the Operations Console all changes that are made get applied as they are made - which can
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Sunday, June 22, 2008 5:44 PM

Relationships and Grouping

In a recent blog post ( http://blogs.technet.com/kevinholman/archive/2008/02/01/configuring-notifications-to-include-specific-alerts-from-specific-groups-and-classes.aspx ) Kevin Holman discusses how to configure notification subscriptions to hone in
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Monday, June 09, 2008 6:21 PM

Understanding relationships in OpsMgr 2007

Ever wonder how objects are related to each other in OpsMgr? Certainly would be helpful when targeting to understand which objects relate to Windows Computer, which objects relate to the Computer Role object, etc. Much of the time it's intuitive how items
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Monday, May 12, 2008 6:53 AM

OpsMgr Authoring Console has released!

We've been working with the release candidate for a while - the official release has recently been posted - download from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=6C8911C3-C495-4A03-96DF-9731C37AA6D7&displaylang=en I've also been working
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Monday, April 28, 2008 3:31 AM

Rules/Monitors and Event Descriptions in OpsMgr

It is beneficial at times to be able to scan for text in an event description that might be actionable or an indicator of a problem. It was very straight forward in MOM 2005 to create a rule to make this happen. It is equally straghtforward in OpsMgr.
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Monday, February 18, 2008 4:53 PM

Performance Data and Views in OpsMgr 2007

Suppose you want to create a view to look at performance data that has been collected in OpsMgr. You go to create the view and are prompted for a performance counter name. You copy and paste the performance counter name just as it appears in performance
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