Tips for using Reporting in Operations Manager–How do I make the most of my Operations Manager Reports? (#SCOM, #SYSCTR)

Confused on OpsMgr reporting? Running reports with no data? Check out the latest edition of Windows IT Pro! Excerpt from the article with Windows IT Pro in the November 2011 edition: “Although Operations Manager’s reporting structure is extremely powerful and flexible, it’s also unintuitive and can be difficult to work with. This article provides 10…

OpsMgr–”Not Monitored” agent (#SCOM, #SYSCTR)

There are a variety of different reasons which can cause an agent to appear as “Not Monitored”. We were debugging some of these on a client site, and ran through potential issues such as these: DNS issues: http://thoughtsonopsmgr.blogspot.com/2009/10/opsmgr-agent-stays-in-not-monitored.html  Agent configuration incorrect: https://www.catapultsystems.com/cfuller/archive/2010/01/25/not-monitored-servers-in-opsmgr.aspx Agent XML file: http://www.brighthub.com/hubfolio/tolga-balci/articles/87174.aspx  Various issues: http://blogs.technet.com/b/momteam/archive/2008/03/10/getting-headaches-trying-to-figure-out-why-you-are-seeing-the-not-monitored-state-for-management-servers-or-agents.aspx We had been debugging the “Not…

OpsMgr Dashboard Integration: Third Party dashboarding solutions: Bay Dynamics IT Analytics for Microsoft System Center (#SCOM)

For this blog article I’ll be focusing on Bay Dynamics and their product IT Analytics for Microsoft System Center. Their product takes a different approach to surfacing System Center data by creating cubes. Bay Dynamics gave me an excellent demonstration of their product focusing on Operations Manager. Their product is designed for all of System…