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March 2009 - Posts

Friday, March 27, 2009 1:09 AM

New Dell Hardware MP released, 3.1.1 A00

Dell has updated their hardware management pack. The old version was 3.1.0.118. The new version is 3.1.1.3. I blogged about the old MP HERE So – first thing – I did the unthinkable . I read the release notes . Here

Posted by kevinhol | 3 Comments

Filed under: management pack, Hotfix

Thursday, March 26, 2009 7:50 PM

Are your agents restarting every 10 minutes? Are you sure?

**Updated 6-22-2009 – This post applies to SP1 ONLY!!! This architecture has changed for R2. The version of this article updated for R2 is located here: http://blogs.technet.com/kevinholman/archive/2009/06/22/health-service-and-monitoringhost-thresholds-in-r2-how-this-has-changed-and-what-you-should-know.aspx

Posted by kevinhol | 12 Comments

Filed under: agents

Attachment(s): Custom.Agent.Restart.Alert.MP.zip

Thursday, March 26, 2009 6:25 AM

OpsMgr R2 Release Candidate is available

The download is available on Connect Operations Manager 2007 R2 introduces key new and enhanced functionality, including: Enhanced application performance and availability across heterogeneous platforms Delivers monitoring across Windows, Linux

Posted by kevinhol | 3 Comments

Filed under: links, R2

Friday, March 20, 2009 3:02 PM

The Cluster Service will automatically restart itself

Something I ran across with a customer. There aren’t many situations where service recoveries run automatically in Microsoft MP’s, but this is one case where they do. The cluster service running is critical to a healthy cluster. In the current

Posted by kevinhol | 1 Comments

Filed under: management pack, agents, Cluster

Thursday, March 12, 2009 9:02 PM

What’s the diff? Or – how to see exactly what is new with an updated MP

Back in MOM 2005…. we had some really cool reskit tools to look at differences in Management Packs. In the MOM 2005 reskit, there was a tool called MP2XML.exe which would take an AKM MP, and convert it to XML. Then, you could run another reskit

Posted by kevinhol | 2 Comments

Filed under: management pack, Tools

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