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…
One of the most commonly overlooked sections of a Statement of Work or proposal focuses around the area of working conditions for consultants. Paraphrased it says that a consultant will have a space to sit, a phone to use and equipment required to perform the job as a consultant. With IT today however, just finding…
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…
Up until recently, the information below would have caused me little to no concern. However, as I have been digging deeper into System Center 2012 Silverlight is becoming more of a core piece of functionality. Don’t get me wrong here, I’m not saying that the new System Center products should not use Silverlight – quite…
My friend Larry has an OpsMgr 2007 R2 environment with Savision Live Maps. Recently they enabled SSL on the OpsMgr Web Console. This caused an issue with the links in Live maps when you drill down and try to open a SCOM object, the URL still includes Port 5109 and essentially breaks the OpsMgr/Savision integration.…
So you have built a home lab to test our some new technologies like System Center, or SharePoint, Exchange or Lync but now you need to be able to remotely access those lab environments. What are the options available? Recently I sent the following question to our Infrastructure team as whole to get their perspectives:…
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…
Do you work in System Center or are you interested in what’s coming in System Center 2012? If so and you live or work in or around Dallas, this event is for you! Registration is available here! I will be presenting on System Center 2012 including what’s new in all of the products in the…
I saw this and had to write a shout-out to others out there who have built their own customized dashboard solutions which I hadn’t seen yet. Check this one out which was written in Visual Studio over SQL reporting services. Or his earlier version: For information on this check out: http://opsmgr2k7.wordpress.com/2011/04/12/new-enhanched-version-of-my-opsmgr-dashboard/ Summary: This confirms my…
In my dashboard integration series (shout from the hecklers ‘”hey, Cameron’s back on that again – I was wondering if he ever was going to finish those”) I have primarily focused on either free solutions or solutions based upon Microsoft technologies (like SharePoint 2010 with Visio integration). I have also historically discussed Savision and their…
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