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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
Posted by kevinhol | 0 Comments
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, 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
Tuesday, November 11, 2008 10:41 PM

Cleaning up the Default MP

The Default management pack that ships with OpsMgr 2007 is used to store very specific information for the management group.  It is a widely known best practice to NOT write any custom rules, monitors, groups, views, or overrides to this MP. 
Posted by kevinhol | 3 Comments
Tuesday, April 22, 2008 6:33 PM

Using Event Description as criteria for a rule

When we write rules and monitors to look at events in the event log.... typically the most common criteria are Event ID and Source.  We also have a list of other common event properties to choose from: However, this list doesn't always work. 
Posted by kevinhol | 10 Comments
Friday, February 01, 2008 11:04 PM

How do I delete an attribute in OpsMgr 2007?

I notice - when viewing a custom attribute, there is no option to delete it... only view the properties? Apparently this is by design. There is no harm in having "extra" attributes in SCOM - that arent used. However, if you do want to delete an unused
Posted by kevinhol | 0 Comments
Wednesday, December 12, 2007 4:35 PM

Adding custom information to alert description (s) and notifications

This is just a dump of some alert description variables I pulled from several other bloggers: Custom Properties for Alert Description and Notification: Alert Description Variables:   For event Rules: EventDisplayNumber (Event ID):            
Posted by kevinhol | 24 Comments
 
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