My friend JC and I ran into a situation recently where OpsMgr 2007 R2 started alerting us that: “Could not allocate space for object in database because the filegroup is full” Normally this means that the database is not set auto-grow or that the drive where the filegroup exists is full. These situations are fixed…
The System Center Operations Manager 2007 Unleashed book included a set of scripts on the CD (Chapter 12 content) that provided an automated backup process you could then schedule to execute as a regular task. These were also discussed at MMS 2009 as part of the SO34 “Don’t Flirt With Disaster” presentation by Kerrie Meyler…
We have a requirement to provide monitoring for FTP services that are provided by a product called GlobalScape FTP server. There were several different approaches that I considered here to monitor this via OpsMgr so here were the results: Since it was FTP I would not have done due diligence unless I tried to use…
If you read the previous blog article (and were paying attention) you may have noticed that not only was there an unmonitored Management Server, but there were also two gateway servers which were in a grey state. These two gateway servers were the only gateway servers for a remote domain in the environment. Reviewing the…
I logged into one of my OpsMgr environments and on the Administration space I ran across an interesting issue. A functional management server which considered itself to be Not monitored (see below). Reviewing the event logs on the management server there was nothing interesting so it wasn’t obvious what the issue was… Until I looked…
We have a large number of servers in our environment which are virtualized and as a result they are created with C drives that are relatively small compared to physical servers (there is no reason to provide a 128 GB C drive on a virtual system if it can be stored in 30 GB). This…
Recently I was working through activating AD Integration in a remote forest. If you are planning on doing this I highly recommend that you read this in detail (http://www.systemcenterforum.org/wp-content/uploads/ADIntegration_final.pdf) and if you have access check out Pete Zerger’s session on how to get AD Integration working in a untrusted forest (both at MMS and TechEd…
Windows IT Pro just published my article with them which is now online at: http://windowsitpro.com/article/articleid/101719/top-5-extensions-for-opsmgr.html The topic is: Top 5 Extensions for OpsMgr (Managing Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 smarter, faster, easier). This is my first article that I have published with Windows IT Professional, so I would really like to thank Windows IT…
A while back we built out some conference room kiosk’s (discussed at http://cameronfuller.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!A231E4EB0417CB76!1509.entry) which display the status of a conference room using an Outlook Web Access calendar. We have run into issues where the connection to the OWA server would be lost and/or when other issues would occur which would cause these to stop functioning.…
We ran into a situation where SQL jobs started failing on a SQL server in a DMZ domain seemingly out of the blue. As background, we have a situation where: Domain-A trusts Domain-B, but Domain-B doesn’t trust Domain-A (This is common in a DMZ configuration) SQL Server is installed on a Domain-A machine (This is…
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