Author Archives: Cameron Fuller

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…

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…

  In an environment where we had created a significant number of custom rules and monitors for a specific group they requested a weekly report on what alerts were being generated by their management pack. Operations Manager makes this pretty easy to accomplish through setting some parameters on the “Most Common Alerts” report. For our…

  The IIS management pack raises alerts if application pools or web applications are non-functional. In many environments it is common to have both default application pools and default web applications which are often not used but have not been removed from the environment. The best practice approach to these is to back the system…

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…

We were debugging a group of servers which were in a gray state and it was not a situation where all of the agents were gray reporting to a management server or a gateway server. In our situation, these computers were not displaying in the computer view. In the Agent Health State view they on…

I just ran into this the second time recently. I was working in the Operations Manager console and everything was functional, but an error message occurred saying “The request failed with HTTP status 401: Unauthorized” (an example is shown below – the top line will vary depending upon which report folder it was attempting to…