Cameron Fuller, Author at Catapult - a Quisitive Company

Old school tech meets New school tech

infrastructureBy Cameron Fuller February 8, 2010

For those who haven’t already picked this up from my earlier post about using technology to go back to basics I am into being frugal and especially into how to use technology to actually live a more frugal life. I’m a huge advocate of the Dave Ramsey approach to finances for my household and as…

Updated ReSearch This Management Pack

infrastructureBy Cameron Fuller February 8, 2010

An updated version for the ReSearch This management pack has been created for the R2 version of the management pack and has been updated to work for MOM 2005 as well. There had been issues with this management pack and how it integrated with the new systemcentercentral.com website which should be addressed with the updated…

Community Written Books

infrastructureBy Cameron Fuller February 6, 2010

One of the things that I’ve learned in the last few years is that there isn’t anyone I have met who does not know more than I do about at least one thing. The topic itself may vary (technology, life, marriage, spirituality, politics or even identifying what ran into my car most recently) but in…

Ebooks, Laptop and the Library?

infrastructureBy Cameron Fuller February 3, 2010

I have to start this with saying that maybe I’m just old and not keeping up with technology/that’s certainly possible but this struck me as pretty cool. As a reader I’m familiar with most of the different ebook readers out there (including the Kindle, Barnes & Noble eReader, iPad, etc). Personally, I’m too cheap to…

QuickTricks: Not Monitored Servers in OpsMgr

infrastructureBy Cameron Fuller January 25, 2010

If you have servers in your environment which appear as “Not Monitored” in the Agent Managed section of the Operations Manager/Administration console you may want to check this out. We found that agents which had been installed with the wrong Management Group Name appear as “Not Monitored” in the Agent Managed section. In our case…

OpsMgr RMS for Forefront with the OpsMgr R2 agent installed?

infrastructureBy Cameron Fuller January 22, 2010

Recently I was working in an environment where the root management server for the Forefront environment would regularly restart the health service. At first I figured it was one of the RMS thresholds (private bytes or some such thing – see the end of this article for great link from Kevin Holman). However, this debug…

Tuning “A SQL job failed to complete successfully”

infrastructureBy Cameron Fuller January 18, 2010

In Operations Manager 2007 R2, one of the most common alerts that I am running into is the “SQL job failed to complete successfully” alert which is part of the SQL server management pack. In one of our environments, the request was made to provide an alert if this issue occurred for a specific job…

QuickTricks – What server has my OpsMgr database?

infrastructureBy Cameron Fuller January 16, 2010

I’ve had several times recently when I was on a client site, and nobody knew what server was hosting the Operations Manager database (the usual response is “I’ve slept since then”). Each time I end up digging around for a while so I thought it would make sense to post this. There are multiple ways…

ReSearch This! KB – Root Management Server Unavailable

infrastructureBy Cameron Fuller January 14, 2010

Alert: Root Management Server Unavailable Issue: We ran into an issue recently where we saw issues with most of our distributed applications changing to a grey state seemingly for no reason. After a little digging we determined that the RMS server itself was actually in a grey state. We tried things that have worked in…

Management packs won’t import into OpsMgr

infrastructureBy Cameron Fuller December 10, 2009

Issue: Trying to one or more management packs into Operations Manager and they are all failing? Resolution: Check the free space on the OperationsManager database. There are alerts to provide warning if there is less than 40% available free disk space however if an OpsMgr environment is completely out of disk space all management packs…

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