This is the first blog post in a six part series which is designed to show the steps required throughout the process – from gathering your own performance counters, to designing simple custom reports to making them available in an environment. I decided to write this process up in detail with examples to show that…
After creating several service monitors and process monitors, we determined that due to how we were prioritizing alerts we wanted to change the default configuration of the service and process monitors from Critical/Medium to Critical/High. The goal was to do this for specific service and process monitors but not all of them. These settings are…
During some tuning on a client site, we ran across a server which was in red state with no active alerts. Digging into health explorer we found that the red state was due to a monitor in the Group Policy management pack. Ian Blyth has done a write-up on this alert which is available at: …
In an environment where we have done a lot of work to use custom groups for subscriptions a good question was asked of me recently – “How do I backup and restore my Channels, Subscriptions and Subscribers?”. This is a reasonable question because based upon our tests we have done in our environment as follows:…
A while back I wrote a blog entry on how to move Live Maps from a QA environment to a production environment (available here). When I added the new maps, I renamed them to remove the QA names in the Savision Live Maps authoring tool. While this worked (mostly), there was an annoying issue which…
Normally I would not ask this question, but a recent comment on Amazon brought this question to mind and it just won’t leave until I finish writing this. I am looking for feedback and your thoughts on the System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Unleashed book. We have had two comments on the book so…
As part of the SystemCenterCentral management pack contest (details available here), there are now 10 different management packs which have already been submitted which perform a variety of functions. Currently these include: Maintenance Mode History Report Management pack HP EVA Management Pack V2 Top Processes Identifier Management Pack for Operations Manager 2007 and Essentials 2010…
In the late 90’s, my family and I had planned a trip to Michigan to take a week to relax and to spend time at the lake with my relatives. I was working as an IT Director for my dotcom and we were still in the phase of getting things really rolling. This was my…
A colleague of mine asked me a question which sounded like a breeze but either I missed the easy solution (if you know of one please post a comment to this blog entry). However I came up with a total of three ways to determine what management pack a group was created in: 1)…
The download links for each of the sessions from the last System Center Virtual User group are now available at: All sessions: http://cid-4b30376adfa42884.office.live.com/self.aspx/Public/SCVUG/Meeting%20^311 Links to each individual session: Andy Dominey: NightWatchman Server Edition 2.0 Cameron Fuller: OpsMgr 2007 How to create and use custom groups Kevin Holman: Management group checkup – a database perspective Tony LaMark:…
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