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:…
I was working on scheduled report delivery by SQL Reporting Services in 2008 within Operations Manager 2007 R2 but when they showed up the charts in the attachment were blank. NOTE: If you are going to email enable the report you need to configure the E-Mail settings in the Reporting Services Configuration Manager or the…
Thanks to everyone who attended the Virtual User Group today! The following are the URL’s referenced in my presentation today on how to create and use custom groups in OpsMgr: https://www.catapultsystems.com/cfuller/archive/2009/09/04/getting-the-red-out-opsmgr-and-defining-alerts-criticality-for-your-environment.aspx – Getting-the-red-out http://ops-mgr.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!3D3B8489FCAA9B51!1940.entry – Creating custom groups (Name, OU, AD site) http://ops-mgr.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!3D3B8489FCAA9B51!1969.entry – Using custom groups to create views http://ops-mgr.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!3D3B8489FCAA9B51!2035.entry?wa=wsignin1.0&sa=90489102 – Using Custom Groups…
AKA Recreating the ReSearch This! Management Pack – By Example During MMS 2010 I was involved in a discussion where I mentioned that you don’t have to be a coder to write management packs. The ReSearch This! management pack was the example that I was citing as it’s a really simple management pack which just…
My colleague JC Warner pointed this out to me a while ago and I’ve been meaning to blog on it. The Performance Analysis of Logs (PAL) Tool takes Performance Log files and analyzes it against user defined thresholds to produce HTML files with graphs that are easy to distribute. The utility gives a PerfMon template…
I recently was working on a way to translate rules from MOM 2005 to OpsMgr 2007 without using the backward compatibility management pack. While the concept worked out well, I made a mistake in how I targeted these new rules. What I started seeing was that OpsMgr was generating alerts which were displaying an incorrect…
Alert:IIS Stop Command Issue:Two alerts are generated as part of the SharePoint 2007 management pack when IIS is stopped and started. These are the "IIS Stop Command" and "IIS Start Command". Each is generated by a rule so they do not auto resolve. The stop command is generated from a Source of IISCTLS with event…
How should a consultant dress when they are on client site? While at a top level this appears to be a pretty intuitive question to answer, when you get into the weeds of it there is a lot more to it than there would appear to be. The initial thoughts on dress code for consultants…
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