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Thursday, November 05, 2009 6:00 AM

Making groups of logical disks – an example from simple to advanced

I have been seeing this question come up a lot lately – as customers try and create groups of their disks – in order to create overrides for “certain” disks.  So – I am creating this post to give some real world examples.   Well – I will start
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Monday, October 05, 2009 6:29 AM

What is config churn?

There have been a couple good articles briefly covering this topic…. you might have read them.  I will reference some below.  Config churn is basically, when your RMS is in an almost never-ending loop of generating config.  This can be
Posted by kevinhol | 0 Comments
Wednesday, September 23, 2009 6:54 PM

Alert Notification Subscription Variables, and linking that to the console, database, and SDK

Attached you will find a spreadsheet, with all the possible alert notification subscription variables that I am aware of. In this spreadsheet, I link these to the same values in the Alert table of the DB, the alert view of the DB, the Console alert view,
Posted by kevinhol | 0 Comments
Attachment(s): Alert Properties Notification Subscription Variable Master Table_v1.xlsx
Tuesday, August 04, 2009 7:14 AM

Nice clean Alert descriptions have been added to R2. Ahem.

I didn't realize this feature got added – very nice.   In OpsMgr SP1 – we had to use some hacks to get the Alert Description formatted to be nicely readable.  I wrote about this HERE .  The problem was – we could add a </BR> to the
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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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Attachment(s): Custom.Script.Test.MP.zip
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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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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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,
Posted by kevinhol | 5 Comments
Tuesday, April 21, 2009 8:29 PM

Quick tip – using regular expressions in a dynamic group

Here is a quick tip on using a regular expression when creating a group.   OpsMgr dynamic inclusion rules are case sensitive. If I have a group that I want to contain all computers that START with “OM”…. I can use the following expression:  
Posted by kevinhol | 1 Comments
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.   
Posted by kevinhol | 1 Comments
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
Tuesday, January 27, 2009 6:54 PM

Populating groups from a SQL server CMDB – step by step

Boris wrote a cool article HERE on how to populate a group of computers in OpsMgr, from an external source…. such as active directory. In his published example – you run an LDAP query to AD, to return a recordset list if computers, in order to populate
Posted by kevinhol | 12 Comments
Attachment(s): SQLBasedGroupDemo.zip
Saturday, November 15, 2008 5:23 PM

Recording a web application browser session driving you crazy?

    Sometimes - getting this to work is frustrating.  The problems generally are caused by the security hardening of the OS hosting the console... not an issue with OpsMgr.  Here are some tips. This is seen especially on hardened versions
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