The SP1 Cumulative Update 1 (CU1) for OpsMgr 2007 SP1 has shipped     Get it from the download Center: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=62b6c324-38b9-47df-bd89-a62908f0b642  ...

You might have noticed a logical disk availability monitor, being red on some of your systems.     One of the challenges with this monitor – is that it has really good product knowledge, but the state change context doesn’t give us much to go...

There are many examples of using a discovery for a new class or extended class, based on a registry key. What if – you just want to monitor for a specific registry key – and turn your agents to a warning or critical state if it is missing...

I have written many individual blog posts on creating and using groups.  I wanted to take this post to put them all in one place – the most common examples of “how-to” create groups for all kinds of common scenarios.  Some of these are super...

The business need: It is a very common request to monitor a process on a given set of servers, and collect that data for reporting, or monitor it for a given threshold. One thing you might notice when trying to monitor some performance counters, is that...

This is a rare but interesting scenario… which can cause you to see and monitor duplicate objects (and get duplicate alerts) for specific types of discovered hosted objects that have a parent class which was upgraded from one version to another. For instance...

Or – How to use the <AllowProxying> XML item.   When you monitor the event log in OpsMgr, there is some built in security that the agent modules perform.  Normally this wont affect you, except for unique situations where events are logged...

System Center Central has published some really good reports – which will help you keep up with the health of your environment. http://www.systemcentercentral.com/BlogDetails/tabid/143/IndexID/73350/Default.aspx   Many of these are based on queries...

  Update 11/24/2010 – this MP has been superseded by a newer update:  http://blogs.technet.com/b/kevinholman/archive/2010/11/24/opsmgr-2007-r2-core-mp-s-updated-6-1-7695-0.aspx   This article is out of date.       The core...