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Thursday, October 01, 2009 5:19 AM

Using Integers and other “non-string” data types in Rules and Monitors

If you need to use any non-string data type in the criteria for custom Rules and Monitors, you’ll need to edit the XML in order for it to work properly.  By default, OpsMgr will treat everything as a String value and the Rule/Monitor will not work
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Wednesday, August 12, 2009 12:00 AM

Service Monitors – What does the “State” value mean?

When you create a Service Monitor in OpsMgr 2007, we get an alert / state change when the service is not running, but this does not necessarily mean that the service is “stopped”.  The monitor attempts to get the “State” of the service, and alerts
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Thursday, July 02, 2009 8:41 AM

SQL Server Full Text Search Service Monitor

This issue is described in the SQL Server Management Pack Guide, but I wanted to blog it since I’ve seen a couple customers hit it. In the current version of the SQL Server Management Pack (version 6.0.6559.0), we have a monitor for the SQL Server Full
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Attachment(s): Full.Text.Search.Service.Monitor.Groups.and.Overrides.zip
Wednesday, May 20, 2009 7:33 AM

AD Trust Monitor doesn’t reset to Healthy State

The Active Directory Management Pack (ADMP) – version 6.0.6452.0 – contains a monitor named “AD Trust Monitoring”.  This monitor runs a VBScript which queries WMI to get the status of the Domain Trusts on the Domain Controller.  Is the trust
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Wednesday, May 20, 2009 6:30 AM

Configuring or Disabling Replication Monitoring in the Active directory Management pack

The latest version of the Active Directory Management Pack (ADMP) – version 6.0.6452.0 – contains some significant changes to Replication Monitoring.  The basic premise is the same, but the Rules and Monitors used have changed a bit. Here’s a quick
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Sunday, August 10, 2008 2:45 AM

Monitoring a service for State and StartMode

I recently had a customer that wants to get an alert when a specific service is not Disabled and/or not Stopped. I used the following steps to accomplish this using a "Timed Script Three State Monitor". Even if you do not have this specific need, these
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Attachment(s): Service.Monitor.MP.xml
 
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