Here are a couple of ACS reports to show the event count by User, Forwarder, and Event ID. Just import the .rdl files into a folder in SQL Server Reporting Services. The first report “Event Count Overview” shows the top 10 Events, Forwarders...

  CU6 for OpsMgr 2007 R2 is now available at http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=29850 . You can also find the corresponding KB Article at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2626076 . Cumulative Update 6 for Operations Manager 2007...

  We have just released and updated version of the Active Directory Management Pack (version 6.0.7822.0) that corrects the problems addressed in my recent “ Addendum ” MP.  Once this new ADMP is imported, the Addendum MP can be removed. The...

There are a lot of great blogs out there that discuss creating various types of groups ( Kevin Holman and Jonathan Almquist have a number of them), and the stuff that I do in this post won’t be anything that hasn’t been written about before...

  I’ve seen this issue a couple of times now…an OpsMgr 2007 R2 Agent installation fails with the following error: Product: System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Agent -- Error 1935.An error occured during the installation of assembly component...

In a previous blog post, I provided an “Addendum” MP to fix some Rules that do not work correctly in the Windows Server 2008 version of the Active Directory Management Pack. All of these Rules have been fixed in the latest version of the ADMP...

Here’s a simple custom report that shows the fragmentation of each logical disk based on the Logical Disk Fragmentation Monitor in the Windows Server Operating System Management Pack. The report has a “Fragmentation Percentage Threshold”...

  I regularly see customers getting a lot of alerts indicating that workflows have failed to run a script of WMI query…the alert name is usually one of the following: Workflow Runtime: Failed to run a process or script Workflow Runtime: Failed to...

  The Operations Manager Product Team recently released an Administration Resource Kit for System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2.  One of the tools in the kit is a Maintenance Mode Scheduler….I finally got around to trying this out today...

I recently put together an “Unhealthy Monitors” report for an OpsMgr Administrator to see which Monitors are causing the most state degradation in the environment. This report lists all monitors that have objects in an unhealthy state, so...

NOTE: This report uses the Operations Database instead of the Data Warehouse….in order for it to work, you must create an SRS Data Source for the OpsDB…Kevin Holman has instructions for this here . Here’s a simple report to show...

Very simple report which shows the number of Alerts generated in each hour of a given day….just select the date and the GMT offset and run it.

Here’s a little report that I put together to get a look at what is going on in the ACS Database. The report will show: Number of Events in the DB Number of days represented in the DB Max Events Per Day Average Events Per Day Partition...

The Exchange 2007 Management Pack for MOM 2005 included a Mailbox Count report which was not included in the OpsMgr 2007 version of the Management Pack. I’ve recently taken the MOM 2005 version of this report and converted it to work in OpsMgr...

Here’s a quick little report to show the number of objects in each group. You have the option to select “All Groups” or “Computer Groups”, and can also enter a “Group Filter” to narrow down the list:

The Exchange 2003 Management Pack for MOM 2005 contains a few reports that are not included in the OpsMgr 2007 version of the Management Pack. Two of these are the “Exchange Mailboxes” and “Exchange Database Sizes” reports. ...

OpsMgr Health Explorer allows you to look at the State of all Monitors for a specific object. But, what if you want to look at the State of a specific Monitor on ALL objects that it applies to? For example, I want to see the state of the “SQL Server...

  I recently found that many Event Log rules in the Active Directory Management Pack for Windows Server 2008 (version 6.0.7065.0) do not work correctly, resulting no alert being generated for these rules.  This is happening because the MP uses...

A recent Security Update for Word 2007 is breaking the ability to edit Company Knowledge in OpsMgr.  After installing KB2251419 , when you try to edit Company Knowledge, you get: “The server threw an exception.  (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80010105...

  UPDATE:  Some of these commands have been changed for OpsMgr 2012, so I’ve created updated scripts at the bottom of this post that should work in 2012. I’ve assisted a few customers with configuring Gateway Servers/Agents for failover lately...

Just realized that I haven’t blogged on this yet. By default, the “Calling Machine” property of Account Lockout events from Windows Server 2008 servers is not entered in the ACS database….this will affect some of the Account Lockout...

Here are the reports and queries that I used in the demos of my “Writing Basic Custom Reports for Operations Manager” session at MMS 2010.   **I’ve updated the Alert Dashboard report to correct a problem with the Alert Priority/Severity pie charts...

In the Active Directory Management Pack, there is a Rule named “A journal wrap error has occurred on the Sysvol” (separate rule for Windows 2000, 2003, and 2008 Domain Controllers).  The rule is designed to alert when Event ID 13568 is logged in...

Here are some ACS reports that I’ve written for various customers recently. If you have ACS installed in the same Reporting Services instance as OpsMgr Reporting, then you can just import the attached Management Pack (CustomACSReports.xml). Otherwise...

The SQL Server Management Pack has a rule, targeted at SQL 2000/2005/2008 DB Engine named “DBCC executed found and repaired errors”.  This rule monitors for Event ID 8957 in the Application Log, logged by the SQL Service.  Here is the criteria...