Shortly after posting the sample Windows service monitoring library , I realized a “short” follow-up article was in order to explain how to use the monitor types defined in the library. First and foremost, any management pack that includes...

Sometimes customers need to create their own Windows service monitors. This usually leads them to the Windows Service wizard in the Operations Console . There is nothing wrong with using the wizard, but let me tell you about one of the drawbacks...

Occasionally customers will ask how we can monitor all services that are configured to automatically start on all agent-managed computers. This is a good question and one that does have some merit. I n reality, this can be a challenge coming up with the...

I was recently working with the Microsoft.SystemCenter.WebApplication.UrlProbe module and wanted to know exactly what I could pass through an expression filter and potentially include in an alert description.  It’s easy enough to get this after creating...