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…
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…
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…
I spent some time today working through a query that would gather what applications that I had in my environment which were from Adobe. I worked through the existing reports and couldn’t find anything that would give me the results for all Adobe% applications for a specific collection and would provide that information down to…
Another one of the common questions asked is what are the thresholds which OpsMgr users to alert from a processor usage perspective? Similarly to the thresholds for a disk (https://www.catapultsystems.com/cfuller/archive/2009/10/09/quicktricks-–-determining-what-thresholds-exist-for-a-specific-drive-in-opsmgr.aspx) the are two different values which are used to determine when a processor is bottlenecked. So, first question. Question: How do I determine what the…
I saw someone at Microsoft do this trick and wanted to make a note of it because it’s pretty useful especially if you are working deep into a path on a drive. If you are on the commandline and you want to open explorer in the same folder just type “start .” This is shown…
I was asked recently how to add a new server to the same groups which another server was already of member of in OpsMgr (add Server 5 to the same groups that Server 1 is a member of). At first glance this looks like a simple request – look at each group and see if…
Once in a while I through myself into a situation what while deep-dive debugging an OpsMgr issue, when I finally find the resolution I get a good chance to laugh at myself. This blog entry is a goodd example to laugh at and hopefully it will help someone else who ends up in the same…
I had a requirement to take a series of servers and put them into different groups based upon their names. We have a series of production and test web servers which are named: ws01 through ws05 (for the production servers) ws01t through ws05t (for the test servers) We could have explicitly defined what servers are…
In Tulsa last week there were some good questions asked which I could not answer related to Windows 7. Specifically: Question: Can boot to VHD be used to boot to Linux or Windows XP? Answer: At this point in time the answer is no. Boot to VHD will ONLY work for Windows 7 or Server…
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