14 days ago by System Center Spartan

As a follow-up to the OpsMgr 2007 R2 MP update, the Ops Mgr Product team released the corresponding update for OpsMgr 2007 SP1. This updated MP package can and should only be imported onto OpsMgr 2007 SP1 environments and includes a number of fixes that were provided in R2 and the most recent update ...

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16 days ago by Kristopher Bash

I’ve only had my hands on the OpsMgr MP Authoring Resource Kit for about 24 hours now, but already the tools are proving to be invaluable. This post describes a problem that I was able to investigate with the Workflow Analyzer tool to determine the exact cause of the issue. Background In a managemen ...

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18 days ago by Kristopher Bash

Microsoft has just released the Operations Manager Resource Kit, and my first impressions are very positive. I haven’t had a chance to test drive all of the tools, but the MP Best Practices Analyzer and Workflow Analyzer show great potential. The MP Best Practices Analyzer shows up under the Tools m ...

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18 days ago by jpavleck

Alas, it seems those Danes are just as goofy as I am. And I’m happy to hear it! Jakob Svendsen over at CoreTech released a management pack today. That management pack will alert you when the coffee in your coffee pot gets low. I’ll go ahead and embed the video below, but you’ll have to go to their s ...

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26 days ago by System Center Spartan

There has already been some posting around the inundation of Ops Mgr 2007 MPs released: Active Directory 2000 / 2003 / 2008 (now supports W2K8 R2 DCs) Exchange Server 2003 Exchange Server 2007 – resolves Remote Mail Flow Synthetic Transaction Operations Manager 2007 Core I find it interesting that M ...

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28 days ago by Kristopher Bash

In Operations Manager distributed agent-based monitoring scenarios, resource utilization of the monitoring workflows is rarely a point of major concern as the data sources and probe actions typically consume only nominal resources of the agent host system at any given time. However, in centralized m ...

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31 days ago by System Center Spartan

If you have made the jump to Ops Mgr 2007 R2, you’ll be please to know that Microsoft has released a new MP for Ops Mgr 2007 R2. Here are a couple of highlights for the MP: 1. Improved monitoring around excessive agent memory utilization. 2. A number of ‘missing display names, descriptions, and prod ...

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37 days ago by Kristopher Bash

One of the realities of working with SNMP monitoring is that more often than not, the monitoring data are presented in a raw form that requires some kind of manipulation in order to render meaningful output. For example, required data manipulation may be a simple arithmetic operation on two values t ...

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37 days ago by Kristopher Bash

Due to the ubiquity of the Net-SNMP agent, the Net-SNMP management packs can be used for a wide range of UNIX/Linux devices, and one of my primary intentions in creating these management packs was to extend them to Linux-based proprietary platforms such as Check Point Secure Platform and VMWare ESX. ...

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44 days ago by Kristopher Bash

I have completed the first version of the Cisco Management Pack for SP1 compatibility. The monitoring in the management pack is identical to the R2 version of the MP, described most recently here. Due to the dependence on the WMI SNMP provider for object discovery, there are inevitably some scalabil ...

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