There are a couple resources on the web about how to do this from C# and Powershell. The best sites I have seen are at: http://blogs.msdn.com/jakuboleksy/archive/2007/01/18/notification-subscriptions.aspx and http://code4ward.net/cs2/blogs/code4ward/archive/2007/09/19/set-notificationforalert.aspx These examples are cool – showing us we can create more granular criteria than the choices exposed in the UI. In the…
When you look at your agent pending actions in the Administration pane of the console…. you will see pending actions for things like approving a manual agent install, agent installation in progress, approving agent updates, like from a hotfix, etc. This pending action information is also contained in the SQL…
This came up in a discussion group…. and while it maybe not be all that interesting of a topic…. it is interesting to see the kinds of reports you can write with OpsMgr and look for unique scenarios. The question was – “How can I run a report – and…
Do you want auditing information on how many alerts are being closed or modified by your OpsMgr users? You can use the following queries to get this information from the data warehouse, and I have attached some reports below as well: To get all raw alert data from the data…
Many times, we would like to collect information for reporting, or measure and alert on something. Normally, we use Windows Performance Monitors to do this. But, what do we use when a perfmon object/counter/instance doesn’t exist? This post is an example of how to collect WMI information, and insert it…
In OpsMgr 2007, when a agent experiences a heartbeat failure, several things happen. There are diagnostics, and possibly recoveries that are run. Alerts, and possibly notifications go out. But what happens if my Operations team misses on of these alerts? What can I do to “spot check” agents with issues?…
Keep this in mind when searching for an object when creating a report. If you don’t give very specific search criteria… or if you just select “Add Object” then select “Search” with no criteria…. the result set is limited to 500 objects returned. Therefore – if the object you are…
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. For instance – if we add someone…
I see this event a lot in customer environments. I am not an expert on troubleshooting this here… but saw this post in the MS newsgroups and felt it was worth capturing…. My experience has been that it is MUCH more common to see these when there is a management…
Often times…. I hear about reports not showing any data. Especially ad-hoc performance reports. When we run a report – we have to run the report against the same object type (class) that the data was collected from. The problem is – “how do you know what object type that…