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…
In my previous post similar to this topic, we discussed how to check for the existence of a registry key or value, and alert/change state if it was missing. But what if you want to inspect the contents of a registry value for specific data? For instance – what if we want to…
You might have noticed a logical disk availability monitor, being red on some of your systems. In more recent MP’s – this monitor was renamed to “File System error or corruption” One of the challenges with this monitor – is that it has really good product knowledge, but the state…
There are many examples of using a discovery for a new class or extended class, based on a registry key. What if – you just want to monitor for a specific registry key – and turn your agents to a warning or critical state if it is missing? Consider the scenario:…
I have written many individual blog posts on creating and using groups. I wanted to take this post to put them all in one place – the most common examples of “how-to” create groups for all kinds of common scenarios. Some of these are super simple. Some are overly complex,…
The business need: It is a very common request to monitor a process on a given set of servers, and collect that data for reporting, or monitor it for a given threshold. One thing you might notice when trying to monitor some performance counters, is that not all perf counters…