Quick Reference In the previous post I talked about how to get connected to management groups. In this post I’m going to talk about working with management servers and gateway servers. I will also introduce you to a script that I wrote, which gives a hierarchical view of state, much like the...

Quick Reference In the previous post , I introduced the OpsMgr 2012 PowerShell module and discussed a few of the ways that I used to get oriented to it. Now that we’re oriented, the first thing I want to explore is how connections work. Both the previous and the current PowerShell implementations...

Quick Reference As some of you may already know the PowerShell support in OpsMgr 2012 changed significantly from OpsMgr 2007 R2. For starters, the cmdlets are no longer an optional part of the UI install. It used to be you could select whether or not to install the PowerShell interface, when you installed...

OpsMgr 2012 PowerShell: Quick Reference I will use this post to summarize all commands, one-liners and short scripts that I identify overtime for PowerShell against OpsMgr 2012 Getting Oriented Import-module OperationsManager Adds the module into your session...

So, in a continuation of the Azure Monitoring stuff I've been working on lately, I see and heard of a lot of places where System Center could be doing a lot of cool stuff to make life better for our application teams that are moving to Azure. As a result I've submitted a bunch of suggestions to the connect...

The “Monitoring Azure applications” series: Part 1: Enabling instrumentation and monitoring in your Azure app(s) Part 2: Setting up the handshake Part 3: Discovering your application Part 4: When things don’t work Up until now we’ve worked through getting...

I guess I did something right last time because the guys at TechNet Radio invited me back for another recording. While I'm not too fond of the video quality from my webcam, I am fond of the demo we did of how IT uses Operations Manager to fold together on-premises and Azure based components into one...

The “Monitoring Azure applications” series: Part 1: Enabling instrumentation and monitoring in your Azure app(s) Part 2: Setting up the handshake Part 3: Discovering your application Part 4: When things don’t work Ok, so at this point you’ve got an application...

The “Monitoring Azure applications” series: Part 1: Enabling instrumentation and monitoring in your Azure app(s) Part 2: Setting up the handshake Part 3: Discovering your application Part 4: When things don’t work In this blog post I’m going to cover how...

The “Monitoring Azure applications” series: Part 1: Enabling instrumentation and monitoring in your Azure app(s) Part 2: Setting up the handshake Part 3: Discovering your application Part 4: When things don’t work I've been working a lot monitoring of Azure applications...

I don't know about everyone else, but our team gets asked questions like the following very often: Are we collecting any events from source <insert source name here> ? Do any of the management packs we have deployed alert on event ID <####> ? Are we collecting performance data...

Not too long ago our team embarked on the journey of migrating all of our clustered root management servers to new hardware. These were exciting times and in retrospect things went much smoother than we had anticipated. With that said, the experience was not without its hiccups and this is the story...

In our environment we have 5 production management groups (3 for "core" monitoring, 1 for application monitoring and one for connecting to our network monitoring system). Many times I want to be able to quickly run some cmdlet across all of these management groups to do things like the following: ...

Our team recently got a call from one of our reporting users with a problem. She said that her queries against the OpsMgr data warehouse (DWH) weren't returning data within the past 10 days. Upon further discussion she indicated that she was seeing this problem in the hourly and the daily data aggregations...