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…
In the previous blog posts we discussed how to gather custom performance counters and examples of how to create custom reports for free disk space and processor utilization. In this blog entry we will use the performance counters created in the first part of the series and the concepts used to create other custom reports…
In the previous blog posts we have discussed how to gather our own custom performance counters, and how to create a simple report for free disk space. Another commonly asked request is how to create a report which shows processor utilization for a group of servers (such as a group of web servers in a…
In the first part of this series we discussed how to gather custom performance counters in OpsMgr (which we will later use in a custom report). In this part we will discuss the steps required to create a simple free disk space report as this is one of the top three cases I am…
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