Lets say I have three support levels of servers: Level 1 – servers critical to business operations (ex: customer facing web applications, SQL back-ends) Level 2 – important servers (ex: messaging, internal apps) Level 3 – non-essential servers (ex: non-critical or highly redundant internal apps) Lets say we want to…
In the OpsDB and DWDB – we keep some tables names MaintenanceMode and MaintenanceModeHistory. When you place an object into maintenance mode – we will log a row in the database for this object. You could potentially write reports against this data in the data warehouse, and report on MM…
Here is a quick tip on using a regular expression when creating a group. OpsMgr dynamic inclusion rules are case sensitive. If I have a group that I want to contain all computers that START with “OM”…. I can use the following expression: The “^” tells regex to start a…
So…. with the introduction of Server 2008 into OpsMgr… as a monitored agent, you might need to re-evaluate some of your old rules. Almost all (if not all) of the basic event ID’s and parameters, in the security event log, have changed. For instance, I had a rule to alert…
In OpsMgr – deploying a SCOM agent to a DC often presents companies with a bit of a challenge. The reason is – in order to install software to a DC and manage it – we need rights on the DC to accomplish this. These rights are needed, anytime we…
The most common reason we create groups in OpsMgr… is to scope Notifications, Views, and to use for overrides. Most of the groups my customers create are dealing with Windows Computer objects. The reason for this, is that the Windows Computer object class, is a “parent” level” class that works…
This post is a list of common agent push deployment errors… and some possible remediation options. Most common errors while pushing an agent: Error Error Code(s) Remediation Steps The MOM Server could not execute WMI Query “Select * from Win32_Environment where NAME=’PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE’” on computer server.domain.com Operation: Agent Install Install account: domain\account Error…
This is updated as of 4-20-2023 In general – you should evaluate all hotfixes available, and only apply those applicable to your environment. However, some of these below I have seen impact almost every environment, and should be heavily considered. This list is nothing official…. this is just a general list…
Sometimes – getting this to work is frustrating. The problems generally are caused by the security hardening of the OS hosting the console… not an issue with OpsMgr. Here are some tips. This is seen especially on hardened versions of Vista and Server 2008. Internet Explorer Enhanced Security Configration, and…
The Default management pack that ships with OpsMgr 2007 is used to store very specific information for the management group. It is a widely known best practice to NOT write any custom rules, monitors, groups, views, or overrides to this MP. Even customers who know this – and try to…