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One of the most useful health-related services offered by ASP.NET is the Web Events feature. By modifying the Web.config file, you can use the health monitoring system to log unhandled exceptions, expired forms, authentication tickets, and any other data you want logged in your application. If you want...

Knowledge is power right? Operations Manager is at its core a knowledge based monitoring system, it’s the knowledge that differentiates it from its competitors. It is fairly easy to collect some data and visualize it some fancy UX but it is another thing to collect the right data, provide...

The goal of Operations Manager (and of course the whole System Center Suite) is to provide consistent, world-class manageability. We claim that our product provides best in class monitoring for Microsoft server workloads with rich knowledge to help detect, diagnose, and fix issues. This knowledge is...

The UNIX and Linux Operating Systems Monitoring Packs enable discovering, monitoring, and managing UNIX and Linux computers with System Center 2012 – Operations Manager. They provide both proactive and reactive monitoring of the UNIX and Linux operating systems. The management packs monitor components...

Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we published this morning. This one discusses regular expression support in System Center Operations Manager. ===== Summary The authoring of management packs may need to include regular expression matching in discoveries and groups, as well as for pattern matching...

Over the years, Boris has released a set of phenomenal tools, that saved lives of OpsMgr administrators quite some time in performing common OpsMgr tasks in OpsMgr 2007 and 2007 R2.. Anyhow, Boris has moved to another team within Microsoft. In order to not let those tools go to waste, since I know many...

Just a quick FYI that beta versions of the Windows Server 2012 Management Packs (MPs) for System Center 2012 Operations Manager are now available to TAP customers. These beta versions of the Windows Server 2012 Management Packs are available for you to test with on your Windows Server 2012 Beta machines...

Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we published this morning. This one is more of a heads-up but it explains what you may see if you try to import a Management Pack in OpsMgr but haven’t imported the other Management Packs that are listed as dependencies first. ===== Summary When importing a management...

Here’s another new Knowledge Base article we published today. This one goes through some common tips and troubleshooting for the SharePoint 2010 Management Pack for System Center Operations Manager: ===== Summary This article describes the steps to troubleshoot or configure the SharePoint 2010 Management...

In case you have missed those, Kristopher Bash, who works in the cross-platform team, has published a set of blog posts about the new cross-platforms templates and functionality in System Center 2012 – Operations Manager: http://operatingquadrant.com/2012/01/27/opsmgr-2012-unixlinux-authoring-templates...

Michael wrote a post in August, about working with Alerts . One of the key takeaways from that post, is that – for each application and for each application component – we have FOUR Alerting rules, that can be turned on or off from the APM Template. Quoting that post: Alerting Rules...

From KB 2590414 You are prompted for the latest version of the Microsoft.SystemCenter.Library management pack when you try to edit a new management pack in Operations Manager 2007 R2 When you try to edit a new management pack in the Authoring Console in Microsoft... When you try to edit a new management...

Dear OpsMgr Users, Highly anticipated Office 365 has been released. This blog explains how you can use Operations Manager to seamlessly integrate monitoring of the Office 365 functionality into your enterprise management. Please note that in order to enable the monitoring as described below you need...

I am pleased to announce the release of the System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Administration Resource Kit. The System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Administration Resource Kit includes three tools designed to help improve the Operations Manager Administrator experience. Included: Schedule...

Today, Microsoft announced its acquisition of AVIcode, Inc.  Read the official blog here . We hope that the rest of the Operations Manager community is as excited as we are about the enhanced capabilities that the AVIcode technologies bring to Systems Monitoring, including not only .Net application...

It's not uncommon to want to monitor a perfmon counter like Logical Disk\% Free Space where there are multiple instances and you only want to be alerted if one instance goes below the threshold. Authors will typically try to do this through the UI building a monitor such as: You set the threshold...

I’m very glad to announce that the 3 rd quarterly update for the System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 management pack is now available. You can download the MP from the Pinpoint catalog and it will be available shortly in the R2 web service catalog for download directly from your operations...

Our friends over on the System Center Service Manager team have spent a tremendous amount of time designing and building their management pack and now I'm very happy to say, it's released ! Darko Vukovic is a Program Manager on the SM team and he's posted a very useful accompanying set of best practices...

I wanted to post a quick note to let everyone know that the Windows Server OS MP has been updated and is available for download here . This is a small update in which we did two things. The first, and most important, is that we updated the script used in the “Discover Windows 2008 Servers” discovery...

The System Center Operations Manager team has released its second quarterly update of the OpsMgr 2007 R2 MP to the catalog. You can download the MP from this page . This package (Version 6.1.7599.0) is specific to OpsMgr 2007 R2 and will not import on product versions prior to that. We’ve packed a...

Do you use the Windows Server Print Server role in your environment? Are you using the either of the print server management packs for OpsMgr 2007? Do you use the print management console? If you answered yes to any of these questions then we would greatly appreciate your input to help form the future...

Many people have asked how MP import works and how do MPs get down to the health service. Hopefully this diagram helps explain some of this. Satya

To follow the recent general availability of Windows 7, the updated Client Operating System management pack to support Windows 7 systems is now available. The updated package can be downloaded here . The following is a summary of the major updates in this release: · Support for discovery and monitoring...

Jakob Gottlieb Svendsen with the help of Kåre Rude Andersen have written an MP to monitor their coffee pot. Watch the video that they posted: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0_WsgR6hPw&feature=player_embedded . Another awesome way to use OpsMgr. Link to article: http://blog.coretech.dk/opsmgr07...

As a follow-up to the OpsMgr 2007 R2 MP update announced here , we've now also released the corresponding update for OpsMgr 2007 SP1. This updated MP package can and should only be imported onto OpsMgr 2007 SP1 environments and includes a number of fixes that were provided in R2 and the most recent update...