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July 2009 - Posts

Friday, July 31, 2009 6:48 PM

A tidbit on tuning some Self-Tuning threshold monitors

I wrote up a blog post long ago on loving and hating STT (Self Tuning Threshold) Monitors HERE This is something I noticed in R2…. I don't remember seeing this in SP1 before… I was getting some alert noise on my Windows Server 2008 Terminal

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Filed under: self tuning

Thursday, July 30, 2009 9:05 PM

Where did my “Run As” go?

One of the things I don't like about Server 2008, is they have removed the default “Run as…” (a different user) UI shell command from the Right-Click context menu, that was present in Windows Server 2003. I would use this often on the SCOM

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Filed under: UI Console

Tuesday, July 28, 2009 12:44 AM

Using the Probe Based Script Event Rule – or – how to used a script to create events in the workflow

So – in my previous post on the basics of MOMScriptAPI.LogScriptEvent, we talked about how to take your own script – and log an event to the OperationsManager Windows Event Log. One of the challenges with this – is that it will not allow us to add multiple

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Filed under: Authoring

Attachment(s): Custom.Script.Test.MP.zip

Friday, July 24, 2009 10:53 PM

New SQL MP released – version 6.0.6648.0 and why you NEED it.

Get it from the MP catalog: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/opsmgr/cc539535.aspx This is considered a “minor” update. However, there are some SIGNIFICANT changes you should consider. Not all of the changes are documented

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Filed under: management pack

Friday, July 24, 2009 9:52 PM

The R2 Connectors are HERE!

Announcing System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Connectors The Connectors are available for download at the following location: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=592e4143-c5c8-4270-9a7a-cd0a31ab3189

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Filed under: R2

Friday, July 24, 2009 8:51 PM

Writing reports against RAW Perf data in the Data Warehouse

By default – our generic reports access *aggregated* data in the warehouse… either daily or hourly. These contain information like number of data points, avg, min, max, and std. deviation data. However, sometimes users will want access to

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Filed under: Reporting, TSQL

Wednesday, July 22, 2009 6:15 AM

101: Using custom scripts to write events to the OpsMgr Event Log with MOMScriptAPI.LogScriptEvent

This is very basic 101 stuff. I provide some links to some much deeper articles. When converting MOM 2005 scripts…. on of the common things to do is to change the way events are written. In MOM 2005, we would most commonly use a custom method,

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Filed under: Authoring

Monday, July 20, 2009 4:14 PM

Do you randomly see a MonitoringHost.exe process consuming lots of CPU?

Randomly, you might see a single MonitoringHost.exe process on an agent, consuming 100% CPU. (Or 50%, or 25% depending on how many cores you have). This process will stay at this level, and will not recover. If you restart the OpsMgr HealthService,

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Filed under: Hotfix