This is something I see in almost all clients when we perform a PFE Health Check.  The customer will have lots of data being inserted into the OpsDB from agents, about monitors that are constantly changing state.  This can have a very negative effect on overall performance of the database...

By default – our generic reports access *aggregated* data in the warehouse… either daily or hourly.  These contain information like number of data points, avg, min, max, and std. deviation data.  However, sometimes users will want access to the RAW, individual data points. This is kept in the...

This is a little report I put together on request. This report will query the data warehouse, and show all the outages, and maintenance, for objects in specific groups. The outages look at all the “Failed to Connect to Computer” alerts, and list the start and end time of the outage, based on the...

Sometimes – we will get a Script Error alert, or WMI failure Alert, or some generic alert, telling us that some OTHER workflow had a problem.  These alerts are NOT the root cause… the root cause is the workflow that gets referenced in the alert.  The problem is – the alert often gives us a...

          In OpsMgr 2007, when a agent experiences a heartbeat failure, several things happen.  There are diagnostics, and possibly recoveries that are run.  Alerts, and possibly notifications go out. But what happens if my Operations team misses on of these alerts...

  Upgrading from SQL 2000 to SQL 2005 to support MOM 2005 SP1: 1. Backup your MOM SQL server databases (OnePoint and Systemcenterreporting). Backup your Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services databases. 2. Backup the SRS encryption key. 3. Stop the MOM Service on all management servers. 4. Upgrade...

SCDW/DTS:   Primary 6 tables that SCDW data is retained in: SC_AlertFact_Table SC_AlertHistoryFact_Table SC_AlertToEventFact_Table SC_EventFact_Table SC_EventParameterFact_Table SC_SampledNumericDataFact_Table Commands to execute to modify the data retention age:  Please run these commands...

Last updated 10-12-10     Large Table query .   (I am putting this at the top, because I use it so much – to find out what is taking up so much space in the OpsDB or DW) SELECT TOP 1000 a2.name AS [tablename], (a1.reserved + ISNULL(a4.reserved,0))* 8 AS reserved, a1.rows as row_count,...