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!

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• Adding a Pass-through Disk to a Highly Available Virtual Machine

  Courtesy of the Windows Server Setup / Core Team: http://blogs.technet.com/askcore/archive/2009/02/20/adding-a-pass-through-disk-to-a-highly-available-virtual-machine.aspx Read More... Posted Thursday, April 16, 2009 3:59 PM by walterch | 0 Comments Filed under: Configuration, Hyper-V

• System Center Virtualization Reports 2008 – FQDN Required

  When generating OpsMgr reports, most users have become comfortable simply specifying the host name when adding objects or groups. When generating System Center Virtualization Reports, you must specify the fully qualified domain name. The report instructs Read More... Posted Tuesday, April 07, 2009 4:55 PM by walterch | 0 Comments Filed under: Configuration, SCVMM

• Working with Views

  Once you complete the configuration for integration of SCVMM and OpsMgr, the first thing that jumps put is a set of new views: Virtual Machine Manager 2008 and Virtual Machine Manager 2008 Views. What i quickly noticed is it is not that easy to readily Read More... Posted Wednesday, March 18, 2009 6:51 PM by walterch | 0 Comments Filed under: Configuration, SCVMM, OpsMgr

• Opsmgr Service Level Dashboard for Exchange 2007

  Courtesy of http://scug.be/blogs/scom/archive/2009/01/23/opsmgr-service-level-dashboard-for-exchange-2007.aspx Read More... Posted Sunday, January 25, 2009 7:51 PM by walterch | 0 Comments Filed under: Configuration

• How to install the Web Console component of Operations Manager 2007 on a stand-alone server that is using Windows Authentication

  Courtesy of Microsoft - http://kbalertz.com/957561/install-Console-component-Operations-Manager-server-using-Windows-Authentication.aspx Read More... Posted Sunday, January 25, 2009 6:54 PM by walterch | 0 Comments Filed under: Configuration

• SNMP Queries

  Courtesy of Brian Wren - http://blogs.technet.com/brianwren/archive/2009/01/21/snmp-queries.aspx Read More... Posted Wednesday, January 21, 2009 5:08 PM by walterch | 0 Comments Filed under: Configuration

• Identifying Gray (Uncommunicative Agents) in OpsMgr Directly from the OpsMgr Database

  Courtesy of Pete Zerger - http://www.systemcenterforum.org/news/tipidentifying-gray-uncommunicative-agents-in-opsmgr-directly-from-the-opsdb/ Source: MS Newsgroups (AdamZ) I posted a tip a few months ago about where to see which agents are not communicating Read More... Posted Monday, January 12, 2009 1:23 PM by walterch | 0 Comments Filed under: Configuration

• General Security Auditing - Group Membership Change Notification

  I've had a few clients inquire on how to receive alerts when Security Group Membership changes in Windows Server 2008. For example when a user is added or removed from the Domain Administrators global security group. I thought I'd post a small "How-To" Read More... Posted Wednesday, January 07, 2009 9:34 PM by walterch | 1 Comments Filed under: Configuration

• Monitoring Hyper-V: 'Host Group State' Not Monitored

  After configuring OpsMgr to monitor a Hyper-V environment one of the first things that pops out is in the 'Host Group State' state view displays as not monitored. Configuration, Performance, Security and Virtual Switch will not be monitored because there Read More... Posted Tuesday, January 06, 2009 8:18 PM by walterch | 0 Comments Filed under: Configuration

• So What Is In Maintenance Mode?

  Courtesy of Boris Yanushpolsky - http://blogs.msdn.com/boris_yanushpolsky/archive/2007/08/06/so-what-is-in-maintenance-mode.aspx Read More... Posted Tuesday, January 06, 2009 2:38 PM by walterch | 0 Comments Filed under: Configuration

• Grooming Process in the Operations Database

  Courtesy of Kevin Holman - http://blogs.technet.com/kevinholman/archive/2008/02/13/grooming-process-in-the-operations-database.aspx Read More... Posted Monday, January 05, 2009 5:58 PM by walterch | 0 Comments Filed under: Configuration

• OpsMgr by Example: The Active Directory 2008 Management Pack

  Courtesy of Kerrie Meyler, Cameron Fuller, John Joyner, and Andy Dominey - http://ops-mgr.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!3D3B8489FCAA9B51!1077.entry?sa=779630301 Read More... Posted Monday, January 05, 2009 2:32 PM by walterch | 0 Comments Filed under: Configuration

• Run As Profile Configuration Helper v1

  Courtesy of Boris Yanushpolsky - http://blogs.msdn.com/boris_yanushpolsky/archive/2008/02/28/run-as-profile-configuration-helper-v1.aspx Read More... Posted Saturday, January 03, 2009 4:11 PM by walterch | 0 Comments Filed under: Configuration

• The SQL Server 2005 Setup Program May Take a Very Long Time to be Complete

  For those of us who have the good fortune of deploying SQL 2005 into the OpsMgr environment they are also building...I wanted to draw your attention to this KB Article. Probably old news, but proved very relevant for me recently. During the installation Read More... Posted Tuesday, December 16, 2008 11:43 PM by walterch | 0 Comments Filed under: Configuration

• Monitoring Untrusted Servers over the Internet

  As most people know, OpsMgr is uniquely suited to monitor a server over the public Internet. I wanted to quickly write a short post addressing one of the biggest pitfalls implementers experience, FQDN resolution and the Gateway server. When communicating Read More... Posted Monday, December 15, 2008 8:43 PM by walterch | 1 Comments Filed under: Configuration