Digging around on the web it looks like there are a lot of good resources out there that people have put together to provide assistance with extending monitoring of Azure from Operations Manager. The following is a set of links that I found during our investigation on how to extend what information we are…
The quick answer here is that the current SQL Azure management pack (http://systemcenter.pinpoint.microsoft.com/en-US/applications/monitoring-pack-for-sql-azure-ctp-12884935376) is not available as a production version yet, and the CTP version does not support Operations Manager 2012. If you attempt to add this management pack in Operations Manager it will add correctly and show the following additional Management Pack Template: However,…
During a recent Operations Manager deployment, we spent some time working with the Azure management pack. We investigated the performance counters which are collected by the Operations Manager Azure management pack, the views to display performance counters from Azure and in this article we also include a link which has information on how to add…
As part of further learning how System Center 2012 works with Azure, I spent some time recently working with the Azure Integration Pack and seeing how that works for Orchestrator. This blog posts goes through installing/deploying the IP, Connecting Orchestrator to Azure, Validating that the connection works correctly, and what actions are available in the…
The vision for System Center Universe was built from an idea to bring the best-of-the-best presenters on System Center and related technologies, and to synchronize the user group communities into a one day world-wide event for System Center. This vision was accomplished with SCU 2012. However, there were challenges… As most folks who attended SCU…
This is an updated version of the blog post for OpsMgr 2007 available at: https://www.catapultsystems.com/cfuller/archive/2011/06/03/how-can-i-auto-close-a-variety-of-opsmgr-alerts-on-a-scheduled-basis.aspx. The only updates to this blog are the revision to the PowerShell script so that it will work in Operations Manager 2012 and a change from referencing the RMS to just management servers. In Operations Manager 2012 alerts can…
During a recent round of debugging with Exchange 2010 discovery, we had identified a regular expression which was used in one of the discovery scripts and where trying to see if the value provided to the script did or did not match the regular expression. This was the regular expression which was defined in the…
The webinar recording for the Road to SCOM 2012 is now available online at: http://www.savision.com/resources/webinar/missed-it-demand-webinar-road-scom-available-here The whitepaper is available at: http://www.savision.com/resources/white-paper/road-scom-2012 And if you had any questions or want to see some excellent questions asked during these webinars (35+ including the following): Do you need to reboot the server when upgrading the agent to 2012…
I recently realized that one year ago today I started writing for the OpsMgr 2012 Unleashed book! The good news is that a lot can happen in one year (such as the creation of a 1200 page book on OpsMgr). In that year, we’ve had three authors and more than a half a dozen contributors…
This blog post was resurrected from cache from my original T2R2 blog (cameronfuller.spaces.live.com) as it still has value but is no longer available on the Internet outside of searching through older cache sites.] When trying to tune OpsMgr 2007 in several environments the most common alert found was “Script or Executable Failed to run”. This…
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