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...

I recently ran into the following issue: The SQL Server Management Pack has several monitors to monitor various SQL Services: However, on a SQL Cluster, if one of these services is taken offline: We don't get an alert from SQL (we do get...

  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...

I recently had a need to create an OpsMgr report to show performance data with a "threshold" line, so that it would be easy to see data points that went over a defined threshold. We can't do this with the built-in generic performance report, so I put...

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...

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...

The Active Directory Management Pack (ADMP) – version 6.0.6452.0 – contains a monitor named “AD Trust Monitoring”.  This monitor runs a VBScript which queries WMI to get the status of the Domain Trusts on the Domain Controller.  Is the trust...

This issue is described in the SQL Server Management Pack Guide, but I wanted to blog it since I’ve seen a couple customers hit it. In the current version of the SQL Server Management Pack (version 6.0.6559.0), we have a monitor for the SQL Server...

I recently ran into an interesting issue with a customer.  A Windows 2000 Agent (running OpsMgr SP1) was not able to process configuration due to problems creating/using the self-signed certificate that the Health Service uses (this is not a Gateway...

I recently had a customer that wants to get an alert when a specific service is not Disabled and/or not Stopped. I used the following steps to accomplish this using a "Timed Script Three State Monitor". Even if you do not have this specific need, these...

  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...

The SQL Server Management Pack includes an option to discover and monitor SQL Server Agent Jobs for SQL 2000/2005/2008. The Discovery for this is disabled by default: I ran into an issue recently where all Agent Jobs for specific SQL Servers were...

The latest version of the Active Directory Management Pack (ADMP) – version 6.0.6452.0 – contains some significant changes to Replication Monitoring.  The basic premise is the same, but the Rules and Monitors used have changed a bit. Here’s a quick...

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...

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...

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...

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...

  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...

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 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...

I ran into an issue the other day where Account Lockout events (Event ID 644) did not display properly in the "All Events With Specified Event ID" ACS report. I'm looking for the name of the computer that is listed as "Caller Machine Name" in the event...

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”...

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'll soon be putting together some AEM (Agentless Exception Monitoring) reports, so I figured I'd familiarize myself with the how AEM data is stored in the Date Warehouse. Surprisingly, not all of the useful data is stored in Views....you have to go to...

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...