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Additional Resource, OpsManJam site is live

Hi all - An additional resource for Operations Manager 2007 MP Authors and IT Pro's is now live at OpsManJam . This site, sponsored by Microsoft, focuses on MP Authoring best practices and tutorials. There is deployment and administration content for Read More...
Posted Monday, August 04, 2008 11:59 PM by chrfox | 1 Comments

My script failed but my Task says it succeeded

Task Status has two states Success or Fail, the way this is mapped from the 4 states that the module can return is that only Fatal Errors result in Failed tasks. Since this module is used in both rules and tasks and in the rule case we do not want to Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 08, 2008 6:02 AM by christow | 0 Comments

Authoring console is now available

The System Center Management Pack Authoring Console 2007 has been released to the Web! If you'll be at the Microsoft Management Summit next week, stop by the the Authoring Session SO04 - Tools and Best Practices for Authoring Management Packs for Operations Read More...
Posted Friday, April 25, 2008 10:21 AM by Jonobie Ford | 4 Comments

Reading/Collecting Events created from script with the LogScriptEvent API

Overview A lot of scripts have need to create events which are external to the normal function of the script. This is a technique which is typically used for tracing, it is not recommended to release scripts which expose traces in this way as there is Read More...
Posted Wednesday, April 23, 2008 10:06 PM by christow | 0 Comments

Encapsulating Common Script Functions in an MP

Most MPs have one or more scripts which are used for a variety of things, discovery state monitoring, perf data creation, etc… In a lot of cases the majority of the script code is common to all the scripts in the MP, logging, connecting to a particular Read More...
Posted Wednesday, April 23, 2008 8:37 PM by christow | 1 Comments
Attachment(s): Script.Composite.Functions.xml

EventLog Explorer

The Event Explorer tool can be useful for functional and exploratory testing and debugging. The main purpose of this tool is to reduce burden of manual retrieving and creating EventLog related information since all necessary data regarding installed event Read More...
Posted Wednesday, April 02, 2008 12:20 AM by zbutor | 2 Comments
Attachment(s): EventLogExplorer.zip

Authoring Event Rules in OpsMgr

Anatomy of a Vista/Server 2008 event There are three types of Vista/Server 2008 events which are written to various channels in the event log. 1. The ‘pure’ Vista/Server 2008 event These events are logged using the new Vista/Server 2008 APIs which means Read More...
Posted Friday, February 01, 2008 6:27 PM by christow | 4 Comments

MSDN Magazine MOM Article

MSDN Magazine has a great article on how to write a manageable application and then montoring it with MOM, entitled Instrument and Monitor Your ASP.NET Apps Using WMI and MOM 2005 . This really gets to much of the core of DSI which starts wtih designing Read More...
Posted Monday, August 22, 2005 7:12 AM by dalekoetke | 0 Comments
 
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