The lack of a native ability to reset the health state of a server without opening Health Explorer, finding the lowest level red (or yellow) and resetting each step upward has really bugged me for a while now. With manual reset monitors and servers where significant changes have occurred, it is not uncommon to need…
I may be considered an excessive user of email. My wife used to say that if they offered brain implants to receive e-mail without having to log to a computer I would be the first to volunteer. While I am not one of those people who keep 20,000 emails in their inbox or email messages…
In my previous posts we discussed how to use Savision Live Maps to model distributed applications and we discussed how to use distributed applications to generate actionable alerting. In the actionable alerting article we created a distributed application which rolls up health when more than a specific percentage of entities go to a critical state.…
One of the biggest tools in the Operations Manager tool belt are Distributed Applications (DA’s). DA’s can be used for a variety of purposes but for this blog article I’m going to focus on a single simple ability of a distributed application and how it can be used to provide more actionable alerts through using…
If you want to do some testing with Opalis, you may want to create an All-In-One environment to get to know the product better. There were some interesting gotcha’s that are included as we step through this process; but overall, the solution is working well. Here’s what we had to do: We began with downloading…
The “Total Percentage Interrupt Time is too high” monitor was generating a significant number of alerts on a specific system in our environment. The server causing issues was a backup server which has local and remotely connected backup components which it coordinates. For background, interrupts indicate how much of the time the processor is addressing…
We recently found that a server in our environment was experiencing disk corrupt issues but we were not being notified of the condition by Operations Manager. Digging into the Operating System management pack, there is a rule (NTFS – File System Corrupt) which finds event #41 in the system log. From the product knowledge, we…
We started receiving this message recently on one of our Operations Manager administrator consoles. The message came from a system where this has previously been working. The message was “Failed to launch Microsoft Word. Please make sure Microsoft Word is installed. Here is the error message: The server threw an exception. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80010105…
Recently I started seeing performance issues on one of my servers which is commonly used to run the Operations Manager 2007 R2 console. We experience occasional crashes, so I was not surprised that it was launching WerFault.exe *32 but I was surprised when I saw this: Needless to say, on this server something is causing…
I’ve been an advocate of compressing VHD files for a long time now. As examples, I wrote an blog entry on “Compression and Creating Clusters in Virtual Server” and another on “Compressing Virtuals”. These have also been referenced in other blog entries such as “Tips for using Virtual PC and Virtual Server”. The summary from…
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