Since this is one of those configurations which it’s difficult to work through in a lab (even thought it is documented in the SQL management pack guide) , the following is a screen by screen view of enabling SQL Replication Monitoring in Operations Manager. Prior to enabling this functionality, the SQL management pack replication section…
Alert: Download Tasks Completed Alert Issue: This monitor (CAS Download Task Completed Monitor) is alerting when the service is restarted because the value is a negative number. If the delta value (Last Value – First Value) is under a threshold of 0 it is critical. This is looking at object – MSEchangeFDS:OAB, Counter Name –…
I have had a recent experience of working with a recently built Operations Manager environment and taking it through the next logical steps after installation. What has been interesting is that it has ended up being a series of discussions, questions and responses which resulted in a blog link detailing the answer. As I reviewed…
At MMS 2010 I had a chance to talk with Paul Mestemaker from Channel 9 about the OpsMgr 2007 R2 Unleashed book which had just released. As a funny story on this, if you notice that my eyes are darting around during this there was good reason. While we were talking Marcus and Scott were…
The following is an excerpt from a presentation that I was working on regarding the importance of unplugging from technology. I owe huge thanks to my friend Roger who stepped in at the last minute to do this presentation using my material (and made it better I’m sure) since I was unable to attend the…
Last week I had a chance to spend some quality time in what used to be a rural Iowa. When we don’t see someone regularly our mind can play a trick on us that they will look the same as when we last saw them. Mentally we expect our little cousin to look the same…
I had a question asked recently from a group which had their own custom management packs and wanted to know how many and what types of alerts they were receiving on a daily basis. To do this we used the Reporting / Microsoft Generic Report Library / Most Common alerts report. We selected the appropriate…
In environments where I am debugging RMS issues, I will often monitor the Operations Manager log to see if there are hints of the issues that are occurring. For our environment, we are running the RMS on Windows Server 2008 R2. It is easy to filter and show only Critical, Warning and Error messages via…
If you are receiving alerts from Operations Manager where the subject looks something like this: Subject: =?utf-8?BTG95YWx0eSBXZWIgKFNvZigaXMgbm90IHJlc3BvbmRpbmcuIC0gTG95YWx0eVdlYiBMb2dnaW5nIG9uIERMMUdTUFdFQjMxLmdhbWVzdG9wLm… You may be seeing an issue that we ran into. We use custom channels where we define that the email subject includes the name of the alert, content from a custom field, and the name of the entity.…
In a previous post I introduced a concept I’ve been thinking of QuickReports – IE: How do I quickly generate a report that I need in Operations Manager. I was recently asked “how do I quickly generate a availability report for all of the servers in a group or for all of my servers?” I…
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