I have been seeing this question come up a lot lately – as customers try and create groups of their disks – in order to create overrides for “certain” disks. So – I am creating this post to give some real world examples. Well – I will start this…
Config churn is basically, when your management server is in an almost never-ending loop of generating config. This can be caused by “less than optimized” management packs, pushing agents all the time, or injecting major changes into a management group, such as overrides or custom rules and monitors, or importing…
Sometimes agents either will not “talk” to the management server upon initial installation, and sometimes an agent can get unhealthy long after working fine. Agent health is an ongoing task of any OpsMgr Admin’s life. This post in NOT an “end to end” manual of all the factors that influence…
Quick download: Attached you will find a spreadsheet, with all the possible alert notification subscription variables that I am aware of. In this spreadsheet, I link these to the same values in the Alert table of the DB, the alert view of the DB, the Console alert view, the SDK…
By default – our generic reports access *aggregated* data in the warehouse… either daily or hourly. These contain information like number of data points, avg, min, max, and std. deviation data. However, sometimes users will want access to the RAW, individual data points. This is kept in the warehouse –…
When converting MOM 2005 scripts…. on of the common things to do is to change the way events are written. In MOM 2005, we would most commonly use a custom method, ScriptContext.CreateEvent, which would create custom events via script in the MOM channel, that other event workflows could pick up…
In OpsMgr 2007, it is likely that your most common alert is not really a MP based alert from a technology management pack…. it could be a built-in alert that a script failed, or WMI could not be accessed. This is because when WMI is broken on a machine, almost…
Sometimes getting the web application recorder to capture a web session can be a little tricky. I have blogged about some typical issues you might run into HERE Something I noticed today, with R2: When running the R2 console on an x64 machine – the web recorder bar is not…
There are several examples in blogs on how to create a generic text log rule to monitor for a local text file (Unicode, ASCII, or UTF8). This will be a step-by-step example of doing the same, however, using this to monitor the log file on a remote UNC path instead…
Download: https://kevinholman.com/files/OutageAndMaintenanceReport.zip This is a little report I put together on request. This report will query the data warehouse, and show all the outages, and maintenance, for objects in specific groups. The outages look at all the “Failed to Connect to Computer” alerts, and list the start and end time…