Author Archives: Cameron Fuller

As part of a dashboard project I was working on in OpsMgr 2007 R2 I created a series of SQL queries which can gather information from the OperationsManager database (not recommended) or from the OperationsManagerDW (recommended). These are available for download at: http://www.systemcentercentral.com/Downloads/DownloadsDetails/tabid/144/IndexID/86822/Default.aspx  Recently we had a request to identify an estimated number of tickets…

To deploy the OpsMgr 2012 console, there are three items that need to be deployed. The first is .NET 4.0, the second is Report Viewer, and the third is the OpsMgr 2012 console itself. Configure both the .NET 4.0 and Report Viewer to be dependencies for the Operations Manager console.   .NET example installation syntax:…

I was recently working in an OpsMgr 2012 environment where there were problems adding a Performance widget because no counters were appearing for a custom group which had been created. To test this we performed the following two tests: 1) Created a group with two static members. We attempted to create add a Performance widget…

Environments which have SharePoint available gain several benefits from using SharePoint together with Operations Manager. The following is my Top-5 list of these benefits. Benefit #5: Using SharePoint as a process repository SharePoint document libraries provide an excellent way to store documents within document libraries which can easily be searched using the built-in SharePoint functionality.…

The following was done as part of a project to validate that network devices monitored by OpsMgr 2007 R2 using the xSNMP management pack still work when the environment is upgraded to OpsMgr 2012. To test this situation, I installed an all-in-one OpsMgr 2007 R2 environment (similar to what was done in this blog article),…