In Operations Manager alerts can be generated by either a monitor or a rule (for background information on this see “The Rule of the Monitor”). Alerts which are generated by rules do not impact health state, and they will not auto-close themselves. This results in a situations where there may be alerts in your environment…
You get what should be a really insightful whitepaper! Pete Zerger and I teamed up with Alec King from Veeam to contribute to a whitepaper called “Best Practices for Monitoring VMware with SCOM”. I really enjoyed working with both Pete and Alec and hope to do so again soon! I’m not sure how they determined…
Recently we had the need to get a list of all software installed on a group of systems in a collection in ConfigMgr. There was an existing report which provided this for a single computer but we needed to put it together for a collection of computers (not based upon what is in add/remove…
Once or twice a year my wife tells me the dreaded statement – “we need to clean the garage”. It’s one of those tasks that we could avoid if we worked to keep things uncluttered but over time things just get messy since we don’t work to keep them uncluttered. It’s the same way in…
One of the common approaches that I use when tuning OpsMgr is to see what are the alerts which occur most either by the alert volume or by the repeat count (the screenshot below is from the Service Manager dashboard customized for OpsMgr). Using the graph on the left it’s easy to identify that the…
In some recent posts I have provided some SQL scripts which I have been using to display Operations Manager data in various dashboards and gadgets. The problem with these solutions is that you need the SQL queries to populate the dashboards and gadgets but there aren’t many of them provided yet in the community. As…
This blog entry will attempt to summarize all knowledge which is currently publicly available on what is coming in System Center Operations Manager 2012. This is a daunting task as there are a whole lot of potential sources of knowledge out there on the topic – the point is to be able to provide what…
One of the major challenges in Operations Manager is how to surface data and to do so in a useful way. Sometimes the best approach will be a console, or a report. Sometimes it will be a dashboard or a desktop gadget. For this blog entry we will focus on the wonderful world of gadgets.…
In the Savision Live Maps Authoring utility you can highlight a single (or multiple items as shown below) and move them by using the arrow keys. But a single arrow to the left is often a larger move than needed as shown below: Instead of zooming in for smaller/more detailed levels of moving, use…
On a NOC view it is preferable to have a specific Live Map display instead of the full Live Maps Web Console. To determine the specific URL to display open the Savision Web Console (servername:52909 by default) and browse to the Live Map that you want to locate the URL for. Click on the globe…
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