This blog will now focus on advanced monitoring of heterogeneous data centers. This includes traditional physical servers, both Microsoft and non-Microsoft platforms. It will also include the virtual space, both Hyper-V as well as VMware. Lastly, it absolutely will include networking components!
October 2008 - Posts
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Courtesy of Boris Yanushpolsky: http://blogs.msdn.com/boris_yanushpolsky/archive/2008/10/26/populating-groups-from-external-sources.aspx Read More...
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Content provided by System Center Operations Manager Blog Part I: Create a Web Application Monitor - http://scug.be/blogs/scom/archive/2008/10/19/create-a-web-application-monitor-in-opsmgr.aspx Part: II:Add a Recording to an Existing Web Application Object Read More...
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Gotta' give credit where credit is due.....nice write up Pete! http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc974507.aspx Read More...
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Communications from the Operations Manager Product Team It is possible to create custom reports for Exchange 2007 using the Service Level Dashboard Solution Accelerator and the Exchange 2007 Management Pack. These enable you to report on Exchange availability Read More...
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So you are designing an environment with enough agents and a retention policy necessitating a terabyte data warehouse. In reality, it takes some time to populate a terabyte warehouse. Of course the SAN space has been reserved but who is to say you need Read More...
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In the second part of this series, I will discuss and demonstrate how to leverage User Roles to control what users can View in the Operations Console. For the purposes of this discussion we will focus on Windows Server subject matter experts, those support Read More...
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Please check out Stefan Stranger's post on how to delete OpsMgr attributes. http://blogs.technet.com/stefan_stranger/archive/2008/10/02/deleting-opsmgr-attributes.aspx Thanks for the post Stefan. Read More...
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Please check out this post at http://www.systemcenterforum.org/how-to-verify-opsmgr-data-warehouse-grooming-is-actually-happening/ It is a very important diagnostic process since it is usually assumed the grooming is happening, but that is not always Read More...
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Check out Tim McFadden's blog entry at http://www.scom2k7.com/scom-remote-maintenance-mode-scheduler-20/ A very useful utility! Read More...
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When it comes to the Operations Console, the notion of refresh rate often is a popular topic. Just thought I'd recycle some bits: Refresh settings are managed in the registry of the desktop client running the Operations Console: HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Microsoft Read More...
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Check out this terrific article by Steve Rachui. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc983816.aspx?pr=blog At a Glance: Using an existing target The problem with attribute discovery Creating targets with the authoring console Script-based discovery Read More...
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Currently, it is not a supported scenario to run SQL Server 2008 together with System Center Operations Manager 2007 SP1. Additionally, there is no planned support for scenarios where you run SQL Server 2008 together with the original release version Read More...
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Courtesy of David Allen: http://wmug.co.uk/blogs/aquilaweb/archive/2008/10/02/missing-services-in-windows-service-mp-template.aspx Thanks David, this just came in wicked handy! Using the Windows Service Management Pack Template in OpsMgr you will notice Read More...
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When installing the Web Console you are presented with two authentication choices: Windows Authentication Forms Based Authentication (FBA). Authentication method aside, a few of my clients just want the snazzy login screen: After explaining I was not Read More...
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An must have tool in your arsenal. If the standard GUI fails for whatever reason you can rely on this tool. I have tested it in Windows 2003 Server, Windows 2008, both 32 and 64 bit platforms. Read More...
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