In MOM 2005 it was pretty straightforward to create a rule which would occur only during specific hours of the day. With Operations Manager 2007 this became a lot more complex to accomplish. There are some great discussions out there about how to add scheduling but each of them relies upon a level of comfort…
This has been a very long road… I have email threads back more than two years ago when I started working on how to develop a community knowledge repository for Operations Manager (and MOM 2005). I was just notified that effective today, ReSearchThis! has been added into the Microsoft Pinpoint catalog for Operations Manager management…
Question: In MOM 2005 I had a view where I could see the last time that an agent had sent a heartbeat. Where can I find this in Operations Manager? The key reason for this most often is a requirement to determine what agents are not heartbeating correctly. There isn’t a view (or a way…
One of the requirements for an environment I am working with was to be able to provide performance information for more than a two year period of time. By default, the grooming interval for performance data in Operations Manager is 400 days. To change for this requirement we needed to change the grooming interval on…
When working through some Exchange 2007 alerts, I ran across the “Failure DSNs total” alert. I’ve seen this in previous versions of the management pack and the indications were that since this was a continually increasing value it did not provide a relevant result for a monitor. To verify that this performance counter continues to…
Are you looking for a quick way to get all of your servers into maintenance mode without putting any of the Operations Manager servers into maintenance? While there are a variety of great methods available to provide regularly scheduled maintenance mode within Operations Manager, the question was asked for how to do this for all…
I was in a conversation today where there was a question asked for how to generate a performance report for several servers. In this series we discussed steps to generate reports which span servers. For this situation, there is a good pre-existing report “Operating System Performance” which provides a good basic report. It’s not as…
During a recent conversation with a friend of mine with Savision (Dennis Reitvink) we discussed how I was integrating Operations Manager distributed applications into Savision Live Maps. We use Live Maps in multiple environments to provide a high level dashboard view of all core applications and websites for an organization. We also use sub-dashboard to…
This blog series includes the following posts: Part 1 – Gathering Custom Performance Counters in OpsMgr Part 2 – How to create a free disk space report Part 3 – How to create a processor utilization report for a group of servers Part 4 – How to create a custom performance counters report for…
This blog series includes the following posts: Part 1 – Gathering Custom Performance Counters in OpsMgr Part 2 – How to create a free disk space report Part 3 – How to create a processor utilization report for a group of servers Part 4 – How to create a custom performance counters report for…
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