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Monday, June 29, 2009 8:45 PM

Error alerts from the DNS MP – script failures, WMI Probe failed?

Updated 11/16/09 – I think this is pretty much resolve now – read below:   I have seen this at several customer sites, and even in my own lab.  You might find the following alerts (below) stemming from the DNS MP. To start, I would recommend
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Attachment(s): Custom.DNS.Addendum.MP.zip
Monday, June 29, 2009 3:24 PM

Getting lots of Script Failed To Run alerts? WMI Probe Failed Execution? Backward Compatibility Script Error?

In OpsMgr 2007, it is likely that your most common alert is not really a MP based alert from a technology management pack…. it could be a built-in alert that a script failed, or WMI could not be accessed.  This is because when WMI is broken on a
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Monday, June 22, 2009 11:52 PM

Health Service and MonitoringHost thresholds in R2 – how this has changed and what you should know

In THIS post – I described the way the agent HealthService will bounce on a regular basis, and how to alert on that, and change the thresholds.  Please see that post for details on SP1.   Now – in R2 – much of this has changed in how it works. 
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Saturday, June 20, 2009 12:23 AM

Using a Generic Text Log rule to monitor an ASCII text file – even when the file is a UNC path

There are several examples in blogs on how to create a generic text log rule to monitor for a local text file (Unicode, ASCII, or UTF8). This will be a step-by-step example of doing the same, however, using this to monitor the log file on a remote UNC
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Friday, June 19, 2009 4:15 PM

Web Application recorder R2 – the recorder bar missing in IE?

Sometimes getting the web application recorder to capture a web session can be a little tricky.  I have blogged about some typical issues you might run into HERE   Something I noticed today, with R2: When running the R2 console on an x64 machine
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Thursday, June 11, 2009 5:48 AM

Outages and Maintenance Report

This is a little report I put together on request. This report will query the data warehouse, and show all the outages, and maintenance, for objects in specific groups. The outages look at all the “Failed to Connect to Computer” alerts, and list the start
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Attachment(s): Outage and Maintenance Report.zip
Wednesday, June 10, 2009 5:09 AM

Creating custom dynamic computer groups based on registry keys on agents

I have had a few requests now for this, so I thought I would take the time to write up the process.     Lets say I have three support levels of servers:   Level 1 – servers critical to business operations (ex: customer facing web applications,
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Friday, June 05, 2009 6:59 AM

Maintenance mode – tying the text of the category to the database

I havent seen this discussed before – so I figured I would post this. In the OpsDB and DWDB – we keep some tables names MaintenanceMode and MaintenanceModeHistory. When you place an object into maintenance mode – we will log a row in the database for
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Tuesday, June 02, 2009 12:03 AM

Some Server 2008 Windows Firewall rules needed to install OpsMgr R2

I recently rebuilt a POC environment all on Server 2008, and SQL 2008. Out of the box – the R2 install is a bit rocky – because of the Windows Firewall enabled on Server 2008 by default.   These required custom firewall rules are documented on the
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