As a quick background on the requirement to enable proxy in OpsMgr – this is required for a significant number of management packs including SQL, SharePoint, Exchange, Clusters, IIS and more. The following are a few quick PowerShell examples to display and enable the proxy setting for various servers in OpsMgr: Find servers with…
Does this look familiar? If so, check out this blog post. If not, move along, nothing to see here…. Kevin Holman blogged on this topic at: http://blogs.technet.com/b/kevinholman/archive/2011/09/30/opsmgr-new-base-os-mp-6-0-6956-0-adds-cluster-shared-volume-monitoring-bpa-and-many-changes.aspx. The following is a subset from Kevin’s blog post: — “When you try and run the report ‘Performance By Utilization’ you get an error: An error has occurred…
Topic: SharePoint 2010 Management Pack Download location: SharePoint 2010 Management Pack Issues: The task included which configures the SharePoint site does not work in Operations Manager 2012. Notes: A separate download is available which includes a version of the task designed for OpsMgr 2012 which is available on connect at: https://connect.microsoft.com/site799/Downloads/DownloadDetails.aspx?DownloadID=37367. This is also available…
I was recently working with a dynamic group membership situation where we needed to include all of the sub-OU’s within the group. Our approach was to create a dynamic membership which matched based on a wildcard value that would exist because the sub-OU naming includes the top level OU naming. The result was just what…
In Operations Manager, performance counters are sometimes gathered in bytes (I’ve seen this most recently in monitoring of network devices which gather inbound and outbound bits per second). As a benefit of working with a guy who really knows PowerShell (shout-out to Ambers) I learn a lot of great tricks in PowerShell like this one.…
In a recent environment where we were deploying several network devices for monitoring with Operations Manager, we developed the following pre-deployment steps to maximize our success when monitoring SNMP devices in OpsMgr 2012: 1) Create a network monitoring resource pool using management servers or gateways. 2) Get a list of names and IP addresses for…
Updated version of the blog post provided at: https://www.catapultsystems.com/cfuller/archive/2012/07/13/getting-report-builder-3-0-to-run-from-the-opsmgr-2012-console-scom-sql-sysctr-1.aspx
Critical Update: On June 27th the Exchange Management pack was removed from the catalog and a blog post of explanation was provided by the Exchange team on the 28th which is available at: http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2012/06/28/mailboxes-on-a-database-are-quarantined-in-an-environment-with-system-center-operations-manager.aspx The synopsis is if you have the Exchange MP version above, it’s critical to first identify if you have quarantined mailboxes.…
During a recent client engagement, we needed to create groups based upon Organizational Unit (OU). We found that our Windows 2008 servers were identified correctly as members of the group but the Windows 2003 servers in the same OU were not showing up as members of the group. Digging on the web we found that…
I am extremely proud to say that I just saw the notice that Catapult Systems has won System Center Partner of the year! Well done to all of my colleagues for all of their hard work which made this possible! Check out the official announcement at: https://www.catapultsystems.com/About/News/Articles/Pages/Catapult-Microsoft-Systems-Management-Partner-of-the-Year.aspx
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