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• Manually Resetting a Monitor

  You may have noticed that all monitors in OpsMgr 2007 have an option called Reset Health. The problem you may have encountered with this option is that it doesn't do anything on most monitors. It will typically only work on monitors that were created Read More... Posted Tuesday, August 07, 2007 9:42 AM by Brian Wren | 0 Comments Filed under: MOM

• Exporting Management Packs

  Obviously, a great way to learn how to author a management pack is to look at existing ones. The problem is that most of the interesting ones are sealed so you can't read the file, and the Operations Console won't allow you to export a sealed management Read More... Posted Monday, August 06, 2007 10:43 AM by Brian Wren | 0 Comments Filed under: MOM

• Targeting Rules and Monitors

  The concept of what target to use for a particular rule or monitor in OpsMgr 2007 seems to be one that people are struggling with. The confusion is most prevelant among people who have had experience with MOM 2005 since the methods have completely in Read More... Posted Monday, May 14, 2007 7:40 AM by Brian Wren | 2 Comments Filed under: MOM

• WMI Events in OpsMgr 2007

  I've already explained how to work with WMI events in MOM 2005 in an article in TechNet Magazine . Most of the information in that article still applies since it covers the basics of how WMI events work and how to write a query to detect them. What has Read More... Posted Saturday, April 07, 2007 1:12 PM by Brian Wren | 0 Comments Filed under: MOM, Scripting, WMI

• Blank Description in SQL Server 2005 Block Analysis script

  I found that block analysis script for SQL 2005 was generating an appropriate alert, but the description is blank. That description is pretty important because it identifies the process blocking and being blocked. After some investigation, I found that Read More... Posted Saturday, April 08, 2006 10:46 PM by Brian Wren | 1 Comments Filed under: MOM

• Problem with SQL Server 2005 Long Running Agent Jobs script in MOM 2005

  I found a problem in the latest version of the SQL Server Management Pack (version 09.0.1399.0700) that I imagine many others have wrestled with as well. Easy fix though, so I wanted to post it out here for everyone. The problem is with the script SQL Read More... Posted Saturday, March 25, 2006 9:01 AM by Brian Wren | 0 Comments Filed under: MOM

• WMI Notifications in MOM

  Okay, I'm getting tired of answering this question but I have to admit that there is relatively little technical information out there on it. The most common requests I get for MOM scripts are for things like monitoring if a process is running, if a file Read More... Posted Wednesday, December 21, 2005 12:34 PM by Brian Wren | 1 Comments Filed under: MOM, WMI