The following article will give an example of how to collect performance data into OpsMgr from a VBscript. This will be handy for instances where a perfmon counter does not exist for something that you wish to measure, but you can write a script to output the value and instance…
I didn’t come up with this idea…. I got it from Cameron Fuller who got it from Rory McCaw’s session at MMS last year. So credit goes to both of them for the idea and initially spreading it. As I was talking to many of my colleagues, I found out this is not…
I was installing a gateway in a locked down DMZ environment today, and ran across an issue getting my certificates to work. My DMZ based gateway has NO access to browse the Enterprise CA’s website, so I had to request and issue my certificates, and export them all manually. When…
I was faced with an interesting situation recently. A customer had a request to discover and monitor an application which installs a service, among other things. Whoopty-doo right? Well, the unique part of this request was that the service name varied across different computers. The service name was not static, but contained some static…
I have had several blog posts in the past discussing how to write rules and monitors against multi-instance objects. Special care must always be taken when writing workflows against classes where an agent can host more than one instance of the same class type. Examples would be Logical Disk, SQL…
The Basic Service Unit Monitor is a very common monitor type to check the running status of any Windows Service. The design of this Monitor by default – is to ONLY monitor the service – if the Startup Type is set to “Automatic” This is because many services are…
Let’s say you find yourself in a pickle. Perhaps you ignored your Operations Database size, perhaps grooming was failing and you didn’t notice, perhaps you wrote a BAD rule, and FLOODED the database with events, or performance data? Now, your database is full, and there is no more free…
I had an interesting customer request. The customer has a boundary of responsibility where the OS/Hardware team is responsible for ALL C: drives on all servers. However, the individual application teams are responsible for ALL OTHER disks, which are used for applications. Therefore, for notification purposes, the customer wanted to…
Using RunAs accounts and profiles is an often poorly understood area of OpsMgr. As I began to investigate setting this up for the SQL MP, I quickly realized how little I understood it. Chatting with my PFE peers, I found that while everyone felt they had a “big picture” idea…
A very common customer scenario – is where all of a sudden you start getting these 31552 events on the RMS, every 10 minutes. This drives a monitor state and generates an alert when the monitor goes red. However – most of the time my experience is that this…