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 3-6-2026 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…
There are a couple resources on the web about how to do this from C# and Powershell. The best sites I have seen are at: http://blogs.msdn.com/jakuboleksy/archive/2007/01/18/notification-subscriptions.aspx and http://code4ward.net/cs2/blogs/code4ward/archive/2007/09/19/set-notificationforalert.aspx These examples are cool – showing us we can create more granular criteria than the choices exposed in the UI. In the…
When you look at your agent pending actions in the Administration pane of the console…. you will see pending actions for things like approving a manual agent install, agent installation in progress, approving agent updates, like from a hotfix, etc. This pending action information is also contained in the SQL…
This came up in a discussion group…. and while it maybe not be all that interesting of a topic…. it is interesting to see the kinds of reports you can write with OpsMgr and look for unique scenarios. The question was – “How can I run a report – and…
Do you want auditing information on how many alerts are being closed or modified by your OpsMgr users? You can use the following queries to get this information from the data warehouse, and I have attached some reports below as well: To get all raw alert data from the data…
Many times, we would like to collect information for reporting, or measure and alert on something. Normally, we use Windows Performance Monitors to do this. But, what do we use when a perfmon object/counter/instance doesn’t exist? This post is an example of how to collect WMI information, and insert it…