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Sample Application for SP1

Attached to this post is a version of my sample application for Operations Manager SP1. This has the process monitor removed that relies on the modules in R2. Read More...
Posted Thursday, June 04, 2009 11:28 PM by Brian Wren | 0 Comments

Attachment(s): Demo.StoreApp.xml

PowerShell Scripts in a Management Pack Part 2

In a previous blog post , I explained how to run PowerShell scripts from a management pack. I honestly don’t remember why I titled that “Part 1” because I don’t remember what I figured that Part 2 was going to be. Turns out that using the native PowerShell Read More...
Posted Thursday, June 04, 2009 10:49 PM by Brian Wren | 0 Comments

Attachment(s): Demo.StoreApp.xml

Sample Application Dependencies

I’ve had a couple of people tell me that the sample application I used for my MMS presentations won’t load in their environment.  That’s because the management pack requires the OpsMgr R2 beta.  It won’t load into an SP1 management group.  Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 19, 2009 10:25 PM by Brian Wren | 0 Comments

R2 Authoring Console

I’ve been getting this question quite a bit, so I thought I’d give a quick answer to it.  The question is whether we can use the R2 Authoring Console to create management packs for SP1.  The answer is that you absolutely can – with a minor caveat.  Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 07, 2009 9:16 AM by Brian Wren | 5 Comments

MMS 2009

A bit wiped out after delivering four consecutive sessions on management pack authoring.  I'm impressed with people who made it through the entire five hours.  That was definitely not light content.  Seems like they were well received though.  Read More...
Posted Tuesday, April 28, 2009 5:44 PM by Brian Wren | 1 Comments

SNMP Queries

I recently help someone out getting a monitor working that uses the System.SnmpQueryProvider module in the System.Snmp.Library management pack to perform a query against an SNMP device.  They were getting back an error message showing some cryptic Read More...
Posted Wednesday, January 21, 2009 8:22 AM by Brian Wren | 2 Comments
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Programmatically Creating Groups

Well, it looks from my last post that I took about a eight month hiatus from the blog.  Fortunately, I've been doing a bunch of OpsMgr in that time, so I have a bunch of content to get out here.  Just a matter of taking the time to write it Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 18, 2008 12:04 AM by Brian Wren | 4 Comments
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One more MMS Follow Up

As I ran out of time in the MMS session, I quickly showed a script that listed all performance monitors and their thresholds. This came from the SharePoint Portal Server Management Pack Guide . The only change I made was to comment out the command to Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 07, 2008 9:26 AM by Brian Wren | 0 Comments
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Attachment(s): GetMonitorThresholds.ps1

Monitoring Object Properties

There has been some question about how to get properties for monitoring objects with Command Shell. I wanted to go into this in my MMS session last week, but I already ran out of time just trying to cram in all the topics I did cover. Shouldn't be too Read More...
Posted Saturday, May 03, 2008 2:10 PM by Brian Wren | 0 Comments
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Setting Maintenance Mode from an Agent

My apologies that I forgot to talk about this in my MMS session earlier today. I did mention it to a couple of people after the session. Derek Harkin came up with an interesting method for initiating maintenance mode from an agent. No OpsMgr client of Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 01, 2008 5:19 PM by Brian Wren | 0 Comments
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MMS Command Shell Presentation

As promised, here are all the samples that I am showing in my MMS session on Command Shell. There are also a several samples I'm planning on mentioning but won't have time to show. Hope it's helpful. Given the length of the this, chances are pretty good Read More...
Posted Tuesday, March 11, 2008 7:28 AM by Brian Wren | 2 Comments
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Update to the Maintenance Mode Sample MP

Andrzej Lipka, a fellow consultant in Poland, took my maintenance mode sample MP and added some interesting features. Have a look at the specific post here . I also added a link to Andrzej's blog to my general list since he has some great posts on OpsMgr Read More...
Posted Monday, March 10, 2008 7:59 AM by Brian Wren | 0 Comments
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Using Wildcards with the Windows Service Template

The Windows Service template in the Operations Console lets you discover and monitor a Windows service by doing little more than typing in the service name. I was just talking with someone who had a situation where the name of the service includes the Read More...
Posted Friday, March 07, 2008 11:25 PM by Brian Wren | 5 Comments
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Great Minds Think Alike

I just got done with my previous post on setting maintenance mode for a group of objects, and I happened to check Boris Yanushpolsky's blog . Bori's blog is an outstanding reference for various Command Shell scripts, and I have to give him credit for Read More...
Posted Tuesday, March 04, 2008 8:46 PM by Brian Wren | 8 Comments
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Scheduling Groups of Objects for Maintenance Mode

I was given a challenge recently to come up with a solution for an organization that wanted to suppress any alerts for certain computers and services during a particular time window every night. The particular set of objects and the times in question Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 28, 2008 7:08 AM by Brian Wren | 4 Comments
Attachment(s): bwren.MaintenanceMode.xml
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