In OpsMgr 2007, when a agent experiences a heartbeat failure, several things happen. There are diagnostics, and possibly recoveries that are run. Alerts, and possibly notifications go out. But what happens if my Operations team misses on of these alerts? What can I do to “spot check” agents with issues?…
Keep this in mind when searching for an object when creating a report. If you don’t give very specific search criteria… or if you just select “Add Object” then select “Search” with no criteria…. the result set is limited to 500 objects returned. Therefore – if the object you are…
When we write rules and monitors to look at events in the event log…. typically the most common criteria are Event ID and Source. We also have a list of other common event properties to choose from: However, this list doesn’t always work. For instance – if we add someone…
I see this event a lot in customer environments. I am not an expert on troubleshooting this here… but saw this post in the MS newsgroups and felt it was worth capturing…. My experience has been that it is MUCH more common to see these when there is a management…
Often times…. I hear about reports not showing any data. Especially ad-hoc performance reports. When we run a report – we have to run the report against the same object type (class) that the data was collected from. The problem is – “how do you know what object type that…
Steve Rachui wrote a great post on this – which goes a little deeper than some of the other documents and blogs presently out there: http://blogs.msdn.com/steverac/archive/2008/03/20/opsmgr-ad-integration-how-it-works.aspx I want to add one comment: Q: “How often does the agent poll active directory if it doesn’t find policy when the machine first…
This is a simple overview of using a recovery for a custom Monitor in OpsMgr Lets say we create a simple service monitor in OpsMgr… for this example – I will use the Print Spooler service: Create a new monitor, unit monitor, and choose windows services – Basic Service Monitor:…
Mostly hate. Self tuning thresholds were a new concept for OpsMgr 2007. They “attempt” to “learn” what is normal for a performance counter, and alert when the value is outside of the learned baseline. This is great when we have performance counters that will vary widely from company to company,…
I am going to use this post ramble about a couple of the internals of ACS. Database: The ACS DB is primarily made up of daily partition tables…. we create a new one every day during the nightly maintenance, which defaults to 1AM. We create a new partition, then close…
Grooming of the OpsDB is called once per day at 12:00am…. by the rule: “Partitioning and Grooming” You can search for this rule in the Authoring space of the console, under Rules. It is targeted to the “Root Management Server” and is part of the System Center Internal Library. It…