OpsMgr new “Agents by Health State” report – cool, but where is it? (#SCOM)

There have been some good discussions recently about the updated OpsMgr management pack which discuss one of the new reports which looks really interesting. It’s called the “Agents by Health State” report. Write-ups on this include: Kevin Holman: http://blogs.technet.com/b/kevinholman/archive/2010/11/24/opsmgr-2007-r2-core-mp-s-updated-6-1-7695-0.aspx Marnix Wolf: http://thoughtsonopsmgr.blogspot.com/2010/11/updated-scom-r2-core-mp-has-been.html Pete Zerger: http://systemcentercentral.com/BlogDetails/tabid/143/IndexID/82933/Default.aspx However, while risking being captain-obvious here – I wasn’t sure…

Using GreenMachine to reset logical disk fragmentation level monitors and automate defragmentation of servers in OpsMgr (#SCOM)

As part of the Operating System management packs, Operations Manager provides warning level alerts which impact the state of a server when drives on the server are heavily fragmented. For good discussions on these and history related to them please see the following articles:  Kevin Holman’s discussion on this functionality: http://blogs.technet.com/b/kevinholman/archive/2009/09/28/new-base-os-mp-6-0-6667-0-adds-file-fragmentation-monitor-to-all-logical-disks.aspx Logical Disk Fragmentation Level…

How do I know what objects to choose when building a custom report?

One of the most common (and most reasonable) questions I get during Operations Manager engagements is how to build reports for performance counter information. I’ve discussed on option which is available in a two-part series about “QuickReports” available at: https://www.catapultsystems.com/cfuller/archive/2010/09/21/a-practical-example-of-the-opsmgr-%E2%80%9Cquickreports%E2%80%9D-approach.aspx and http://www.systemcentercentral.com/BlogDetails/tabid/143/IndexID/76012/Default.aspx. This works well if you have multiple servers that you want to create…