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February 2009 - Posts

Friday, February 27, 2009 6:42 AM

Issues with the current IBM MP 2.0.0.501 – and a workaround

I have seen this a couple times… and was told about a neat way to work around the issue…. hence this post:   The current IBM Hardware MP’s 2.0.0.501 have some unique issues…. they are running discoveries WAY too often, and also discovering properties
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Wednesday, February 25, 2009 2:20 AM

Applying an OpsMgr hotfix to a RMS Cluster node? Some things to be aware of.

  When you apply a SCOM hotfix to a RMS cluster, you need to be aware of some issues, and some workarounds.  This is something I have seen several times in the field…   On any server/agent, the Hotfix installer will stop any discovered
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Wednesday, February 25, 2009 1:56 AM

Authoring rules for Windows 2008 events, and how to cheat

So…. with the introduction of Server 2008 into OpsMgr… as a monitored agent, you might need to re-evaluate some of your old rules.   Almost all (if not all) of the basic event ID’s and parameters, in the security event log, have changed.   
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Tuesday, February 24, 2009 8:52 PM

DNS MP – Noisy resolution time alerts, and how to deal with them

This is a problem in the 6.0.6480.0 version of the DNS MP. You will likely see a lot of DNS Resolution Time alerts popping into your console – then disappearing. This is because these alerts are generated by a monitor, which is frequently changing state. 
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Tuesday, February 24, 2009 8:03 PM

DNS MP External Resolution Monitor always in a critical state?

This is a problem in the 6.0.6480.0 version of the DNS MP. This MP includes a monitor to inspect the DNS server’s ability to resolve external domains. The problem is – that the moniotr defaults to inspecting “www.microsoft.com” when it should use a base
Posted by kevinhol | 2 Comments
Friday, February 20, 2009 6:27 PM

Getting and keeping the SCOM agent on a Domain Controller – how do YOU do it?

I’d like to hear some community feedback on this….   In OpsMgr – deploying a SCOM agent to a DC often presents companies with a bit of a challenge.  The reason is – in order to install software to a DC and manage it – we need rights on the DC
Posted by kevinhol | 5 Comments
Monday, February 16, 2009 10:28 PM

A new-ish blog to add to your blogrolls

A friend of mine - Marnix Wolf – is a System Center consultant in the Netherlands.  He started blogging recently and has some good stuff out there.  Add this one to your RSS reader. http://thoughtsonopsmgr.blogspot.com/
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Monday, February 16, 2009 10:09 PM

How to find all possible event ID’s for a given event source

I recently got this question from a customer… and felt it would be good to blog about this. The customer wants to create an Alert, anytime there is a event in the System event log, from a USER32 event source:   HOWEVER – it is a best practice in
Posted by kevinhol | 2 Comments
Thursday, February 05, 2009 5:52 AM

What is a group anyway?

So – this is a first part, of a multi-post series on creating groups.   The most common reason we create groups in OpsMgr… is to scope Notifications, Views, and to use for overrides. Most of the groups my customers create are dealing with Windows
Posted by kevinhol | 7 Comments
Monday, February 02, 2009 8:14 PM

Here is your chance to provide feedback on OpsMgr Management packs!

http://www.systemcenterforum.org/news/your-feedback-requested-operations-manager-2007-management-pack-quality-survey/   See the link above.  This is a 5 minute survey where you can provide direct feedback on the common MP’s, and their quality.
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