Updated ReSearch This Management Pack is available for the SystemCenterCentral website

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…

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Operations Manager 2007 R2, Highly Scalable Systems, and High Disk Queue on the C drive

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…

Active Directory Management Pack, Kinda an Alert?

Today we received a couple of alerts from the Active Directory 2008 management pack for a 64-bit Windows Server 2008 domain controller. They caught my eye because they did not have alert descriptions and in one case there was no Alert name. Normally I would post these as ReSearch This kb articles (see http://www.systemcentercentral.com/default.aspx?tabid=39&search=KB) but…

OpsMgr Tuning – IIS Discovery Probe Module Failed Execution

Alert: IIS Discovery Probe Module Failed Execution Issue: Non-recurring failure across multiple servers in the environment. Discussed here at http://www.eggheadcafe.com/conversation.aspx?messageid=32202280&threadid=31903288 with no resolution. This is occurring in IIS MP version 6.0.6539.0. We have approximately 115 IIS servers with 85 alerts of this type occurring weekly. Digging into these led to a list of object discoveries…

New Agents in Grey status

During a large deployment we were debugging several agents which would not go to a healthy state/they were reporting to OpsMgr in a grey state. We investigated on the agent side event logs and saw no indication of an error and no indication of an error on the OpsMgr RMS server or the gateway servers…