Situation: When running the Operations Manager Installation for Reporting, an error is seen below at the Specify a Management Server page. Operating System = Server 2012 Operations Manager = OpsMgr 2012 SP1 Error: Specify a Management server Enter the name, of a Management server to be used by the Web console and reporting features only.…
I noticed these links in a recent OpsMgr Newsletter that Cameron Fuller had shared and wanted to share a few correlations I made with Kevin Holmans findings as well as WMI Handle Leak in Performance Data. It appears that Kevin Holman suggests installing UR1 immediately after installing SP1 as there are some noted fixes in…
Don’t most people agree that it tends to get confusing when considering block\chunk size and alignment? I would say most people do because there are many factors to take into account when building a solid storage design. What is affected in the near term? · File · Volume · SAN LUN Mostly, I wonder why…
There are three approaches which can be used for deployment or migration of Operations Manager. These are: Fresh installation: Used for a new installation of Operations Manager 2012 or when the existing Operations Manager 2007 R2 environment is either non-viable or unused. In-place upgrade: Used to upgrade an existing OpsMgr 2007 R2 environment to OpsMgr…
I kept note of typical Best Practices and like to incorporate Storage Vendor Best Practices and Microsoft Best Practices into my SQL designs. This article relates to the disk subsystem more than it relates to virtual disks. Some of it I’m sure you might see familiar… First, there has been recent changes in what is…
If you are like me, you like to find any way possible to leverage powershell to help with tasks that are either tedious or just not possible through a console. One such task is the creation of CIs in Service Manager. If you google this with Bing you will quickly come up with search results…
Hello everyone and welcome to my new blog here at Catapult Systems! I’m excited to begin sharing all of the really cool stuff I’m working on. So, get ready, because here I go. 🙂
One of the benefits of being a consultant is the ability to work with a large number of different client sites and with a variety of Operations Manager administrators. I have used Operations Manager heavily for years but often I find a trick that another OM admin uses that I hadn’t seen before. Last week…
Thank you to Stephen Leuthold of BlogMyNog.com and HASMUG.com for sharing this excellent information! Situation: Massive I/O waits seen on the OperationsManagerDW resulting in major performance problems. It is unknown what the root cause of the Situation was. Reference: The Microsoft baseline I/O ranges for OLTP systems are as follows: 1-5ms for Log files 4-20ms for Data…
Thank you to my collegue Marty List for creating these great tools for command-line network administration, software distribution and login scripts. OptimumX has a great set of tools that I have tried on newer machines as well as older OS’s. One of my favorites is the Network Speed tool, go download it and try it out! http://www.optimumx.com/downloads.html…
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