Steve Rachui wrote a great post on this – which goes a little deeper than some of the other documents and blogs presently out there: http://blogs.msdn.com/steverac/archive/2008/03/20/opsmgr-ad-integration-how-it-works.aspx I want to add one comment: Q: “How often does the agent poll active directory if it doesn’t find policy when the machine first…
This is a simple overview of using a recovery for a custom Monitor in OpsMgr Lets say we create a simple service monitor in OpsMgr… for this example – I will use the Print Spooler service: Create a new monitor, unit monitor, and choose windows services – Basic Service Monitor:…
Mostly hate. Self tuning thresholds were a new concept for OpsMgr 2007. They “attempt” to “learn” what is normal for a performance counter, and alert when the value is outside of the learned baseline. This is great when we have performance counters that will vary widely from company to company,…
I am going to use this post ramble about a couple of the internals of ACS. Database: The ACS DB is primarily made up of daily partition tables…. we create a new one every day during the nightly maintenance, which defaults to 1AM. We create a new partition, then close…
Grooming of the OpsDB is called once per day at 12:00am…. by the rule: “Partitioning and Grooming” You can search for this rule in the Authoring space of the console, under Rules. It is targeted to the “Root Management Server” and is part of the System Center Internal Library. It…
Here is a really cool feature of OpsMgr: the ability to create groups easily based on any discovered attribute of an object. OU is something that is part of the Windows Computer object discovery. If you examine a state view – you will see in the details pane discovered information……
In a simplified view to groom alerts….. Grooming of the ops DB is called once per day at 12:00am…. by the rule: “Partitioning and Grooming” You can search for this rule in the Authoring space of the console, under Rules. It is targeted to the “Root Management Server” and is…
System Center Operations Manager SDK service failed to register an SPN Have you seen this event in your RMS OpsMgr event logs? Event Type: Warning Event Source: OpsMgr SDK Service Event Category: None Event ID: 26371 Date: 12/13/2007 Time: 2:58:24 PM User: N/A Computer: RMSCOMPUTER Description: The System Center Operations…
OpsMgr 2007 Agent troubleshooting: There is a GREAT graphical display of the Agent discovery and push process, taken from: http://blogs.technet.com/momteam/archive/2007/12/10/how-does-computer-discovery-work-in-opsmgr-2007.aspx Agent Prerequisites: Supported Operating System Version (see below) Windows Installer 3.1 MSXML 6 Parser Agent push requirements (including firewall ports): The account being used to push the agent must…
Alert Description Variables: The following section contains variables for the Alert Description only. Event Rules (Alert Description): EventDisplayNumber (ID): $Data/EventDisplayNumber$ EventDescription (Description): $Data/EventDescription$ Publisher Name (Source): $Data/PublisherName$ EventCategory: $Data/EventCategory$ LoggingComputer: $Data/LoggingComputer$ EventLevel: $Data/EventLevel$ Channel: $Data/Channel$ UserName: $Data/UserName$ EventNumber: $Data/EventNumber$ Event Time: $Data/@time$ Event Monitors (Alert Description): EventDisplayNumber (Event ID): $Data/Context/EventDisplayNumber$…