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…
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…