Microsoft’s very own Kevin Holman just posted a great article over on his blog talking about an issue where Logical Disk free space alerts don’t show percent and MB free values in the alert description in SCOM 2007.  If you haven’t seen it yet then you’ll definitely want to check this one out: I...

Here’s a new SCVMM 2008/OpsMgr 2007 KB article we published this morning.  If you’re seeing an issue where PRO Tips alerts are unexpectedly being removed from the PRO Tips alerts window then you’ll want to check this one out: ===== Symptoms PRO Tips alerts in Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine...

Hi everyone, Vikram Sahay here and I’m back again with another interesting topic on System Center Operations Manager 2007. Hope you find it useful. Recently we were working on an  issue where we were getting an alert from few of the SQL servers as: 'Cannot login to database' We checked and verified...

Here’s a new System Center Operations Manager 2007 Knowledge Base article we published today. This one is just a short note on how the Alert Priority field in a System Center Operations Manager 2007 connector may have a different wording than in the Operations Manager console: ===== Summary When an alert...

Hi everyone, my name is Rich Pesenko and I wanted to give you a quick tip on using alerts in OpsMgr 2007.  Specifically, I wanted to talk about how the "alert context" section of a closed alert in Operations Manager 2007 may not reflect the conditions that caused the alert to be generated...

The legendary Steve Rachui has done it again with another great System Center Operations Manager 2007 post, this time describing how you can add your own custom information to the custom alert fields of an alert: Alerts in OpsMgr have lots of good information on them already – but wouldn’t it be cool...

When using connectors to forward alerts in Operations Manager 2007, in certain situations such as an alert storm (defined as a large number of alerts being generated in a very short period of time) there may be alerts that are not forwarded via a connector.  When this occurs, these alerts will never...

This article describes how to configure a Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 Management Server or a MOM 2005 Agent to generate a readable alert when an SNMP trap is received. This allows you to monitor SNMP-enabled devices and applications by configuring them to send traps to MOM.  The article does...

A large and sudden increase in the number of alerts is called an alert storm. An alert storm can be a symptom of massive changes of some kind within your management group, such as the catastrophic failure of networks. An alert storm can also be a symptom of configuration issues within Microsoft System...

In Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 and in Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2, alerts can be raised by the monitors. Alerts that are raised by the monitors are typically the result of a state change. These alerts are displayed in the Operations console similar to the alerts...

Just a quick heads up to let you know about a known issue you may run into after upgrading to System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2.  After you upgrade from Operations Manager 2007 SP1 to Operations Manager 2007 R2, alert descriptions that are formatted with HTML tags such as the <br> or...

I recently ran across an issue where notification subscriptions were getting disabled every 30 minutes. The strange thing was that only about half of the subscriptions were being disabled and they were the same subscriptions every time. I tried re-enabling them with both Powershell as well as the GUI...

Using System Center Operations Manager 2007, you want to get an alert for any change in the domain admin group or any other group for that matter. If this is something you think you might want to configure then here are the steps to set this up: Note: Before we continue - let me stress that using...

Here's an interesting issue that was sent to me by Rohit Kaul on our OpsMgr 2007 team.  This one concerns an issue where the disk space monitoring of a SQL database file does not trigger an alert if the database is set to Autogrow: ======== Issue:   The disk space monitor for a SQL database...