Is the “System Center Core Monitoring Reports” folder missing in your OpsMgr environment? These reports are not available if you upgrade existing management packs through the OpsMgr console. These reports are available from pinpoint or if you search on all management packs which are available in the catalog and add the “System Center Core Monitoring…
For background, Operations Manager generates alerts based upon two different types of monitoring: Rules and Monitors. A rule does not impact the health state of an entity, a monitor does impact the health state of an entity. Alerts generated by monitors can automatically close when the issue identified by the alert has been resolved (there…
In lab and test environments it’s often useful to be able to provide a configuration which can emulate multiple physical locations. Examples of this include testing a multiple site Active Directory configuration or to showing the impact of network latency on applications. Historically I have used a Windows 98 system to provide this functionality (definitely…
[This blog post was resurrected from cache from my original T2R2 blog (cameronfuller.spaces.live.com) as it still has value but is no longer available on the Internet outside of searching through older cache sites] A while back I needed to do some testing with two domain controllers which were connected via a router (testing multiple Active…
As part of the Operations Manager Evolution presentation at MMS this year (BB37), we created a custom synthetic transaction which determined health based upon events logged on a computer running the Operations Manager agent. Initially these were created as a monitor on the agent but the result was an impact on the health of the…
Interested in what’s coming with System Center Operations Manager 2012? On May 6th at 9:00 am PST the three authors of the System Center Operations Manager Unleashed series are teaming up for a Q&A session on Talk TechNet to talk about System Center Operations Manager 2012! Click here to find out more!
There are situations where the only option that I have found to track something down in OpsMgr is to export the management packs to XML and search through them to find what you are looking for. Specifically I discussed this in: What MP was a group stored in? I also use this when I’m attempting…
During recent CU4 upgrades we wanted to validate connectivity to the systems during the agent installation process. This is really useful especially when looking for potential reboots (as discussed here) which may occur during CU4 deployments. I ran across the following tool (NirSoft PingInfoView) which was quick to download and worked well for this purpose!…
At MMS 2009 I started my presentation early because both the audience and myself were completely bored waiting for the official time to start the presentation. As a result I decided to change things up at MMS 2011 and introduce the concept of a PreShow presentation. Borrowing (ok, stealing) from the motion picture industry I…
Are you looking for a quick way to find out what computers in your environment have the Operations Manager console for upgrades or Cumulative Update deployment? If you have Configuration Manager this query will show what systems have the executable for the Operations Manager console. (I’ve included two versions – the first which was the…
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