Focusing on scripts, MOM, SMS, WMI, and any other technologies design to assist operations staff in performing their entire job function from the comfort of their own desk.
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I've decided to move the contents of this blog over to my personal one at http://blogs.technet.com/brianwren . I've copied the most recent posts there, and that's where I'll be adding content. I'll be leaving this one in place to keep the older posts Read More...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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I'ts been almost a year since I last posted something here, and I'm committed to correcting that. Now that Operations Manager 2007 is available and I've spent countless hours with it over the last few months, it's time to start documenting some interesting Read More...
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Thanks to everyone who attended my MMS sessions this week. Remember,all of the scripts and documents that I showed are on my public SharePoint site at http://brianwren.members.winisp.net . Read More...
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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...
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Just ran across this one. If you try to update a MOM object through the WMI provider, you may get the not so descriptive error message "Generic failure". For example, the following script should work just fine to automatically resolve all open alerts. Read More...
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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...
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I recently had a requirement to read and change come permissions on DNS records in an AD Integrated zone. I know I can use the MicrosoftDNS_AType WMI class to read the records, but this isn’t going to give me any access to permissions. I figure that since Read More...
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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...
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I recently had a requirement to read and change come permissions on DNS records in an AD Integrated zone. I know I can use the MicrosoftDNS_NSType WMI class to read the records, but this isn’t going to give me any access to permissions. I figure that Read More...
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I got my new library of management stuff online. It's a SharePoint site where I'll post any documents, scripts, management packs, etc that I reference in the blog. Just a couple of items for now, but I'll be adding to it. http://brianwren.members.winisp.ne Read More...
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Operation of a Windows environment too often focuses on nothing more than finite feature sets of packaged products. We implement tools like MOM and SMS to assist in the automation of tasks, but we limit them to activities that we can accomplish with nothing Read More...
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