This is an update, if you use the Microsoft branded OpsMgr R2 connectors.   KB Article:  http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=2274165 Download location:  http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=87c27d91-4549-4169-a87a-ca88e4136e4f&displaylang=en   This is a cumulative...

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 not all perf counters in perfmon behave the way...

I didn't realize this feature got added – very nice.   In OpsMgr SP1 – we had to use some hacks to get the Alert Description formatted to be nicely readable.  I wrote about this HERE .  The problem was – we could add a </BR> to the alert description and get this to work in SP1 –...

    Announcing System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Connectors   The Connectors are available for download at the following location: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=592e4143-c5c8-4270-9a7a-cd0a31ab3189     The following connectors are available in...

Sometimes getting the web application recorder to capture a web session can be a little tricky.  I have blogged about some typical issues you might run into HERE   Something I noticed today, with R2: When running the R2 console on an x64 machine – the web recorder bar is not coming up. ...

I upgraded my test lab from SP1 to R2-RTM this weekend.   My current test lab consists of the following servers: OMRMS – Server 2003 - RMS role OMMS3 – Server 2008 - MS role, Web Console OMMS – Server 2003 - MS role, ACS collector OMDB – Server 2003/SQL 2005 - OperationsManager Database OMDW – Server...

  Getting help from the community for OpsMgr just got easier. We released the new interface to OpsMgr forums – on the web.  No more NNTP newsgroups to parse, with a hard to use web interface.   http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/category/systemcenteroperationsmanager  ...

New Functionality - Operations Manager 2007 R2 introduces key new and enhanced functionality, including:   Enhanced application performance and availability across heterogeneous platforms Delivers monitoring across Windows, Linux and UNIX servers–all through a single console. Extends end to end...

Here are some changes in R2 that make Overrides a bit more intuitive, and help a LOT in understanding what has been done:   First up:  We used to have a lot of names for “Class”.  We used “Target”, “Instance Type”, “Object Type” and “Type” before… among others.  In the Override screens...

Here is a nice add in R2:  When we give you the old “agent proxy alert”, we now tell you the name of the Agent that needs agent proxy enabled, and resolve the name of the object type that it was bringing in:   Nice improvement.  I enable agent proxy for SQL1CLN2 and get on with my day...

The download is available on Connect   Operations Manager 2007 R2 introduces key new and enhanced functionality, including: Enhanced application performance and availability across heterogeneous platforms Delivers monitoring across Windows, Linux and Unix servers-all through a single console Extends...