In Dallas last week there were some good questions asked which we were not able to address related to Windows 7. The following is the summary of information gathered for the team (see the blog ending for a full list): Printers on Windows 7: 1) We have a client who has a Kyocera printer which…
Installing Operations Manager 2007 R2… Life is good. The Operations Manager database installs without a hitch, the RMS installs with no issues, additional management servers – no problem, Data warehouse installation – it’s almost too easy. The Operations Manager reporting installation is almost done, and the reporting component rolls back. <Insert profanity here>. But there…
After reading Ake’s post the logic to enabling the Operational Data Reporting make a lot more sense now. The screenshots in his post show the type of information that Microsoft can get to their MP developers based upon how the MP’s are functioning in the field. The information does not appear to be company specific,…
This particular issue has been one of the banes of my existence since I started deploying large-scale Operations Manager 2007 environments. I follow the best instructions available to the letter and create my certificates, use the MOMCertImport tool, verifying connectivity between systems, approve and install the gateway and… no-go. My gateway server shows up in…
I had a question asked today which wasn’t necessarily intuitive so it seems like a good one to write-up. The question was what the thresholds are for Operations Manager to provide an free disk space alert on a drive. From a high level this sounds simple as there are hard-coded thresholds which exist as part…
This may be one of those “well-duh!” posts, but I was watching a guy work through reports last week and he right-clicked on a blank space in the set of management packs and it popped up the option to Select all or Unselect all as shown below. I’ve spent my share of time checking in…
Normally I don’t blog on updated versions of management packs (the only notable exception is the By Example series which discusses how to install, configure and tune management packs). However, the updated OpsMgr management pack implements some solid enhancements which may be overlooked because they don’t stand out at first glance. In terms of installation,…
After upgrading to Windows 7, it was time to build a new All-In-One environment where we can work with Operations Manager 2007 R2. We previously blogged on this, but the previous posting was written for an older host operating system and older guest operating system. There were some interesting gotcha’s that are included as we…
I received an email from a co-worker of mine who is seeing domain controllers which have high levels of processor utilization when the Operations Manager agent is running on a domain controller. I have seen this occasionally in different environments and for different reasons. The following is a summary of conditions which I…
During some recent tests with creating my own self tuning threshold I found out that once you create the self tuning threshold you cannot change the settings for the sensitivity via the gui. You can still use overrides which alter the sensitivity but the slider bar shown below is grayed out after the monitor was…
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