In my last post, I described about creating an actionable alert to a specific unit monitor - the status code monitor. You can do the same for all the other unit monitors. To that post, John Curtiss responded 'Availability aggregate rollups for the web...

With Operations Manager 2007, monitoring of Web based applications using a synthetic transaction approach was much easier with the inclusion of Web application monitoring template. This replaced the Web sites and services Management Pack in MOM 2005 and...

(Updated PS script below which works on PowerShell V2 and above) We have had some customers ask us if there is a way to remove an agent managed computer using PowerShell from OpsMgr 2007 after the agent managed computer has been turned off. The scenario...

We have created a new UI tool to make obtaining mass certificates easy. Here at OpsMgr, we understand the pain that you have to go through to configure certificate authentication to deploy non-domain joined agents. There are many things we've provided...

The OpsManJam site has added a MPViewer dump folder in the library. While we are just starting out, what you will find here are MPViewer (thanks Boris) extractions of all the Microsoft published management packs as HTML pages. You can use this as a reference...

We may run into a situation where we want to execute a console task within OpsMgr based on some condition, like if a file exists, run it otherwise execute another file. Without the If-condition which is not supported by the < Task > , how can we...

A few of us have been working with the Solutions Accelerator team and Pete Zerger to come up with an Infrastructure Planning Guide for OpsMgr 2007 which got published a couple of weeks ago . This document will lead readers through a sequence of core decision...

Hi all - Today's tip comes from Robb Dilallo, via Tim Kremer. Robb found that it was frustrating to try to edit an exported custom management pack because he couldn't access the sealed, dependent management pack. He shared the following steps to create...

Hi all - An additional resource for Operations Manager 2007 MP Authors and IT Pro's is now live at OpsManJam . This site, sponsored by Microsoft, focuses on MP Authoring best practices and tutorials. There is deployment and administration content for...

Recently we have been receiving some questions on the meaning of the 'grayed-out, Healthy' agent status icon (see picture below). You will see this in the Monitoring space in the Computers view and the Discovered Inventory view and the Operations...

The Operations Manager 2007 Management Pack tracks memory usage of the MonitoringHost.exe process via the private bytes counter. By default, the agent will be automatically restarted if memory usage for MonitoringHost.exe is above 100MB. On large Exchange...

OpsMgr 2007 SP1 and SCE 2007 SP1 have recently announced support for Microsoft Windows Server 2008 in knowledge base article 953141 . Along with the release of this support statement, the first batch of management packs that provide monitoring for the...

We are pleased to announce the availability of the Service Level Dashboard Management Pack for Operations Manager 2007 for download on TechNet . IT departments need ever more sophisticated tools to monitor the performance and availability of line...

You want this information if you are going to use SCCM or some other product to deploy Ops Manager agents. So here is what happens in splash screen underneath (same happens in push-agent) 1. If MSXML 6.0 is not installed install it (You can get it...

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Recently I got some emails requesting for a ACS DB sizing calculator similar to what I had published for the OpsMgr Database and Data warehouse. While I was unable to put one for the ACS DB I did find that a couple of months ago Pete Zerger one of the...

I was asked recently to help solve a problem whereby a customer had the need to report on the availability of their servers over time. Easy you may think, run the availability report and you are done! (Well this was my first response; turns out they had...

The performance team had a thread discussing IOPS requirement with a customer who had some really good questions so and I thought I would share the thread with you all. For sizing the Operations Manager Database and Data warehouse I would highly recommend...

I wanted to drop a quick note to let you all know about something that went live a couple weeks back that I think will save many people from a ton of headaches. In addition to management pack guides being a part of the installation package for MPs, they...

I updated the Vista gadget that makes it easier to find help for System Center products. The gadget now contains more scoped searches and the new System Center branding, and it also workes better than version 1.0 did while using a slow internet connection...

This is a brand new management pack for OpsMgr 2007 so if you've been waiting for MSMQ 3.0 monitoring with OpsMgr 2007, here it is! The MP was released to the MP Catalog on 6/3/2008 (version 6.0.6278.23) and it provides monitoring for MSMQ Servers, MSMQ...

If you are deploying Ops Mgr on machines in untrusted domains or DMZs (anywhere outside of Kerberos trust), then you are going to need to leverage PKI and set up certificates on your boxes in order for authentication to work. The process of requesting...

Watch the attached video on how to cluster a Root Management Server and promote a Management Server to take the role of a Root Management Server . Starr and Myself did a talk at MMS 2008 in Las Vegas on how to build a resilient...

Agentless Exception Monitoring (AEM) of System Center Operations Manager and System Center Desktop Error Monitoring (DEM) are identical features with the only difference being that AEM is shipped with Operations Manager 2007 and DEM is shipped with Microsoft...

The Microsoft Operations Manager 2007 Security Hardening Guide is designed to provide you with essential information about how to further protect, or harden, your Operations Manager 2007 environment in conjunction with the Security Configuration Wizard...