Notes on System Center Operations Manager
Notes, troubleshooting, development and comments related to System Center Operations Manager
OpsMgr 2007 R2 - Alert Storm Recognition (possible rule misconfiguration) for SDK alert
I described the mitigation for alert storm in the one of my previous post. This mitigation is...
Date: 09/29/2009
Tool: OpsMgr 2007 - RuntimeHealthExplorer
Did you ever wonder what is the state of the instance as known to the runtime (health service)...
Date: 06/03/2009
News: OpsMgr 2007 R2 RTM ...
System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 RTM!! New Functionality - Operations Manager 2007 R2...
Date: 05/22/2009
What is new: OpsMgr 2007 R2 - How to reset monitor state with recovery?
Cameron had a nice example of using new R2 feature process monitoring in real life, but that raised...
Date: 04/20/2009
What is new: New version of cluster MP released !
Pleased to announce that a small but important update to the Cluster Management Pack has now been...
Date: 04/10/2009
Tool: OpsMgr 2007 R2 - What to do with Secure Reference Override Alert?
Subject of this post is an advanced authoring combining usage of the security features of OpsMgr...
Date: 04/09/2009
What is new: OpsMgr 2007 R2 - Discover multiple cluster network names (Virtual Server)
Multiple network names scenario Customer has cluster resource group with multiple network name...
Date: 03/27/2009
What is new: OpsMgr 2007 R2 - Alert Storm Recognition (possible rule misconfiguration)
What is new? OpsMgr 2007 R2 Release candidate finally released and can be downloaded from Connect....
Date: 03/26/2009
What is new: OpsMgr 2007 R2 RC released! (publicly available)
We are very excited to announce the System Center Operations Manger 2007 R2 Release Candidate now...
Date: 03/25/2009
Dependency Monitor Hotfix to increase health state calculation reliability
I write this to respond to the release of the hotfix. I would like to bring such fix to your...
Date: 02/27/2009
Windows Server 2008 Cluster MP released to web !!!
In my opinion, Boris did kick a** job driving this puppy out, especially knowing that Windows hotfix...
Date: 02/12/2009
How to: Reset monitor when closing alert?
Not something I recommend, one would say I almost regret we did not prohibit closing alerts...
Date: 02/02/2009
HOWTO: “restart” monitoring of my environment? (another version UPDATE)
My initial and last posts described restart monitoring tool representing my idea how one can...
Date: 01/20/2009
HOWTO: “restart” monitoring of my environment? (UPDATE)
My last post tried to introduce a tool which restarts monitoring of OpsMgr environment. Cameron (and...
Date: 01/13/2009
HOWTO: “restart” monitoring of my environment?
My friend Cameron and I discussed following issue as one of the challenges he occasionally faces...
Date: 01/09/2009
Clustered Virtual Server 2005 R2 and Operations Manager 2007
Problem: Monitoring of clustered virtual machines (guests) is unreliable with Operations Manager...
Date: 01/07/2009
Computer group and dependency health rollup in OpsMgr 2007 R2 Beta release
… will be broken when you need to create group while inheriting from...
Date: 11/26/2008
Where is thy instance monitored and how that affects dependency monitor state?
This area is rather complex and multiple factors weight in while configuration service makes the...
Date: 11/14/2008
What is next OpsMgr 2007? It is R2!!!
Announced in Brad Anderson’s keynote today in Barcelona at Teched IT Pro. The public web site was...
Date: 11/03/2008
HealthServiceWatcher alerts and connector.
Recently I had heard from couple of customers (internal and external) about their trouble with...
Date: 10/14/2008
Cluster and maintenance mode
Maintenance mode and cluster became a big issue for most of our customers. Starting MM for physical...
Date: 09/05/2008
Last contacted, better SQL query
My post about how to receive approximate last contacted time spawn good feedback and thanks to Robin...
Date: 07/28/2008
“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...
Date: 07/24/2008
Last contacted
Some customers not only want to know that health service hosted on the computer was not heart...
Date: 07/24/2008
Customizing monitor from sealed MP ("Device Status Check").
I used Device Status Check monitor in my last post when providing realistic sample of how to define...
Date: 07/18/2008
Dynamic alert settings for monitor which never had any (done thru overrides)
Tim from QuickenLoans contacted me and wanted verification about ability to use AlertMessage...
Date: 07/17/2008
Monitor from sealed MP generated alert and I do not like its description …
… Is there anything I can do? Our usual answer was that not really and you need to create your...
Date: 07/15/2008
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...
Date: 05/03/2008
Cluster Infrastructure Monitoring and Versions
Boris made this nice workflow in Visio. Please use it with your decision making when importing...
Date: 04/04/2008
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...
Date: 04/03/2008
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...
Date: 04/02/2008
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...
Date: 03/18/2008
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...
Date: 03/12/2008
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...
Date: 03/04/2008
HOWTO: Registry Attribute Definition explained
Maybe you already needed to use probe module to retrieve data from registry, check the existence of...
Date: 02/28/2008
Operations Manager 2007 SP1 released to manufacturer!!!
It was announced today that team finally signed off on RTM Release Criteria! Hooray! We really came...
Date: 02/22/2008
MOMScriptAPI other undocumented methods
With my last post, I started to look at undocumented methods of MOMScriptAPI. These methods are...
Date: 02/03/2008
MOMScriptAPI.CreateTypedPropertyBag Method
It came to my attention that CreateTypedPropertyBag method of MOMScriptAPI is not documented in MSDN...
Date: 01/24/2008
Operations Manager 2007 SP1 tracing
As described in this KB article, OpsMgr2007 is using ETW/WPP tracing which was not very customer...
Date: 01/21/2008
VIDEO: Reset And Recalculate Health State
Our TechNet web site and especially its video section went finally live with a training video I did...
Date: 01/09/2008
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...
Date: 01/05/2008
Maintenance Mode And Server Availability
Maintenance mode expired, monitored server is still down, but there is no alert in the alert view of...
Date: 01/04/2008
Alert Severity and Priority use with override
Some of you may know already that with Operations Manager SP1 RC we allow for overriding alert...
Date: 12/17/2007
Parameter replacements and its use with alert
Many of you probably know already, that alert’s description can use parameter replacements to...
Date: 12/10/2007
Fix state related data type transform in OpsMgr2007 SP1 RC
Operations Manager displays alerts, task results and other data thru different dialogs and views....
Date: 12/07/2007
Data Item XML - creation time
Today I received what I later considered an interesting request for help. Customer wanted to use the...
Date: 11/30/2007
Data Item XML - Appllication Log File
This post explains main data types which are involved in monitoring of application log files....
Date: 11/27/2007
Data Item XML - series
I started series describing some of the data items floating thru the workflows of Operations Manager...
Date: 11/21/2007
Data Item XML - ConsolidatorData
This data type is created by consolidator condition module, which is one of the modules that creates...
Date: 11/21/2007
Data Item XML - MonitorTaskDataType
This data type is used as input for recovery task. Recovery can be executed on diagnostic or it can...
Date: 11/20/2007