System Center Operations Manager 2007 provides an extremely comprehensive solution to monitor your entire Windows (and now non-Windows) environment, and provides great knowledge about issues which are occurring or may soon occur. The level of information available within the various management packs is extremely comprehensive and knowledge is provided within the management packs which assist…
What if you have an environment which is geographically dispersed and uses redundant WAN links to provide connectivity between the locations and you want to monitor these links with Operations Manager? You are using Operations Manager 2007 to monitor the environment and you want to know if a remote location is up or down, and…
This is the third of the four part series that describes how to create custom groups to scope the Operations console, used through the rest of this series: Part 1: Creating Custom Groups Part 2: Using Custom Groups to create Views Part 3: Using Custom Groups with Subscriptions & Using One-Off Notifications Part 4: Using…
The System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Unleashed book has been released (ok… it was released on August 3rd but I’ve been running a little behind)! There are some incredibly deep ConfigMgr people who worked under the leadership of Kerrie Meyler (the lead author of OpsMgr 2007 and MOM 2005 Unleashed). Authors and contributors on this…
For a while now I have been using a somewhat low-tech solution to provide tv programming for our house. We were using a satellite dish which was connected to an old-school Tivo Series 1 (which I had hacked to add two 120 gb hard drives, a half a gig of memory and a network adapter).…
This is the second of the four part series that describes how to create custom groups to scope the Operations console, used through the rest of this series: Part 1: Creating Custom Groups Part 2: Using Custom Groups to create Views Part 3: Using Custom Groups with Subscriptions & using one-off notifications Part 4: Using…
When a server owner opens the full Operations Manager console for the first time, the number of management packs and options available within the console can seem overwhelming. There’s a way to alleviate this – you can use customized groups to carve-up the OpsMgr console so that individual groups that own servers can see only…
For background, ReSearch This! is a common repository for information on how to resolve alerts for Operations Manager 2007, System Center Essentials and Microsoft Operations Manager 2005. It provides a method to search a community repository for alert resolutions and to submit information to share how you have resolved alerts in your environment. This management…
On several of our extremely scalable systems running SQL server (servers with 24 processors and about 200 GB of memory) we were receiving sporadic errors about disk transfer latency issues. Specifically this alert: Alert: Disk transfer (reads and writes) latency is too high Description: The threshold for the Logical Disk\Avg. Disk sec/Transfer performance counter has…
Our team has several IBM X3650 M2 servers that we were configuring to have access to one of our SANs. When working on the first of these servers the Operating System installed without an issue but as soon as the LUNs were attached the server would not longer boot to the local drives. The following…
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