This is one of a few posts I will likely do on monitoring applications running on clusters using SCOM. This is one of the areas that does not get much attention from MP developers especially if their applications are not cluster aware. However, there are things you need to consider for every production...

This is more of a philosophical post I wanted to write based on some recent conversations I have had in my team when trying to educate some people on SCOM and management packs. There are different opinions on this and these are only mine. Feel free to disagree and feel free to post some comments if you...

Seed based discovery is a reasonably common concept that is used in many Microsoft MPs. There are a few articles out there such as this detailed one by Dan Rogers. However I was trying to explain this to someone in my team recently and realized it was not that clear exactly why and when to use it. I...

As I was moving content over from the old authormps, I was reviewing all the old schema documentation I had up there. This is really duplicated by the MSDN documentation which came after I started the site. As a result rather than porting this over I am just going to point to MSDN instead. If there is...

In MOM 2005 things were fairly straight forward. You had the concept of rules, tasks and responses. That was really it. There were some more advanced type of rules that carried state change information but this was for a small number of advanced MP authors. In Operations Manager 2007 there are a number...

This is a quick summary of the different module types available in Operations Manager. Again nothing new here just cataloging the old content from my site so it is easy to find here. Operations Manager uses modules to define workflows. Workflows are defined in management packs and distributed to agents...