Background: Operations Manager has a feature which alerts which a monitor has exceeded a certain threshold for processor utilization and processor queue. If you use Health Explorer you can see what processes were occurring when the processor went to an unhealthy state. I discussed this concept and other Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s) in a Windows…
Problem: We have legacy Alert Generating Event Collection rules that legitimately create alerts so that a particular group gets notified of changes to security accounts and groups in Active Directory. In hind sight they should have been TIMER RESET event Monitors, but there are so many of these rules that it would be a significant…
Summary: Operator role and higher (operator, advanced operator, and administrator) should be able to put systems into maintenance mode. My testing: For due diligence I tested this in my lab environment as well for the Administrator role, Operator Role and Read-Only Operator Role and the results are shown below. Administrator: (Maintenance mode is available) Operator:…
This is one of the most common questions I have received over the years supporting Operations Manager and my general approach has been to include an Operations Manager (OpsMgr) administrator in all subscriptions and use unique channels per subscription with unique senders and then to use Outlook rules to categorize what email is received.…
Operations Manager 2007: The default location in OpsMgr 2007 for Management Servers is: \Program Files\System Center Operations Manager 2007\Health Service State The default location in OpsMgr 2007 for Agents is: \Program Files\System Center Operations Manager 2007\Health Service State Operations Manager 2012: The default location in OpsMgr 2012 for Management Servers is: \program files\System Center 2012\Operations…
Issue: Somehow in my lab environment I ended up with an agent which was both Agent Monitored and Agentless monitored. This was causing issues with my management server (causing it to go grey) and whenever I flushed the health state and restarted services it would come back online for a few minutes at a time…
If you have an environment where you have upgraded to CU5 but you have manually installed agents the process to upgrade to CU5 is intensive. If your manually installed agents are NOT as a result of network communication restrictions, this approach is one that has been used to use the OpsMgr console to perform the…
“Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2012 offers significant new functionality, including enhanced network monitoring and application performance monitoring, as well as architectural changes to remove the root management server and to add management server pools. These capabilities are all important, but one of the most interesting investments is Operations Manager 2012’s integrated dashboard functionality.” Are…
The following are a set of some of the FAQ’s I’ve been asked recently about how licenses are handled in System Center 2012. Question: In OpsMgr how can I tell if I am running the evaluation version or a licensed version? Answer: Open the OpsMgr console open help, about and check the screen to…
Inside Podcast Network did a two hour special live from MMS 2012 on Thursday which I was glad to be able to be a part of. This podcast is available here! People involved in the podcast: (in order that they joined the discussion) Dan Kregor Pete Zerger Cameron Fuller Marcus Oh Marnix Wolf Bob Cornelissen…
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