I’ve had two situations where we upgraded an Operations Manager 2007 SP1 environment to Operations Manager 2007 R2, and then to CU4 and had a strange situation occur it was completed. Specifically, alert volume dropped significantly after the CU4 portion of the upgrade was complete. We had completed the upgrade on all of the OpsMgr…
I just finished upgrading my first Windows 2008 R2 Hyper-V server and first clients to Service Pack 1 – specifically to try out Dynamic Memory. So far I have not been disappointed. To see how this works, I configured one of my servers to use Dynamic Memory and set to start at 512 MB of…
I’ve been preparing for some of my demo’s for my session at the Microsoft Management Summit (BB37 – Operations Manager Evolution) today. During some tests today I was developing a low memory Windows 7 Virtual Router (I had previously done this in Windows 98 and had found that I could run Windows 98 on 12…
I was working on an Operations Manager 2007 R2 deployment a while back where we had deployed the OpsMgr agent (including the Windows Server Operating System management pack) to a significant number of servers. One of the servers was a file server and we were looking for disk information on the system. Interestingly enough –…
Veeam and Catapult Systems are working together to provide a webinar this week on Microsoft System Center Operations Manager. In this first installment of the new How to Manage System Center Operations Manager series, join Microsoft MVP Cameron Fuller as he discusses how to: • Understand best practices and create dynamic and static groups •…
Interested in how you can better manage your Operations Manager environment? I’ve been working with Veeam to put together a white paper on how to leverage groups to better manage Operations Manager. This just hit their website today – check it out, it’s free to download and available at: http://vmware.veeam.com/manage-scom-using-groups-wp.html
Are you interested in what dashboard are solutions available for Operations Manager? Check out the February 2011 Edition of Windows IT Pro magazine which has an article I have been working on for this topic! It’s also available online at: http://www.windowsitpro.com/article/systems-management/Operations-Manager-Dashboards.aspx Thank you to the folks at Windows IT Pro for opening this content to…
I just got the word that one of my sessions was approved so it looks like I’m heading to Las Vegas pretty soon for MMS 2011! Looking forward to seeing everybody there! Details on the session are available at: http://www.mms-2011.com/topic/details/BB37
At first glance this looks like a reasonable question. I’ve created my own custom monitor – I have an existing Distributed Application but it doesn’t give me the option to add a monitor. Why? The reason is that a monitor impacts state for an entity. A monitor itself is NOT an entity. When architecting Distributed…
During a conversation with a client recently the discussion came up on how to more quickly add a large number of performance counters into the performance view. They had a significant number of counters which they were scrolling through the performance view and checking the checkbox on the left side to add them. There is…
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