Mar12
This particular issue has been one of the banes of my existence since I started deploying large-scale Operations Manager 2007 environments. I follow the best instructions available to the letter and create my certificates, use the MOMCertImport tool, verifying connectivity between systems, approve and install the gateway and… no-go. My gateway server shows up in the administrator pane, manageme...
Posted by Cameron Fuller on
Friday, 12 Mar 2010 09:34.
Feb27
I had a question asked today which wasn’t necessarily intuitive so it seems like a good one to write-up. The question was what the thresholds are for Operations Manager to provide an free disk space alert on a drive. From a high level this sounds simple as there are hard-coded thresholds which exist as part of the management. For this situation we had a non-system drive on a server which was lo...
Posted by Cameron Fuller on
Saturday, 27 Feb 2010 04:04.
Feb26
This may be one of those “well-duh!” posts, but I was watching a guy work through reports last week and he right-clicked on a blank space in the set of management packs and it popped up the option to Select all or Unselect all as shown below. I’ve spent my share of time checking in these boxes and never realized that was an option so keep it in mind when working with reports in OpsMgr!
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Posted by Cameron Fuller on
Friday, 26 Feb 2010 12:09.
Feb25
Normally I don’t blog on updated versions of management packs (the only notable exception is the By Example series which discusses how to install, configure and tune management packs). However, the updated OpsMgr management pack implements some solid enhancements which may be overlooked because they don’t stand out at first glance.
In terms of installation, the updated MP was available from t...
Posted by Cameron Fuller on
Thursday, 25 Feb 2010 03:08.
Feb12
After upgrading to Windows 7, it was time to build a new All-In-One environment where we can work with Operations Manager 2007 R2. We previously blogged on this, but the previous posting was written for an older host operating system and older guest operating system. There were some interesting gotcha’s that are included as we step through this process; but overall, the solution is working well...
Posted by Cameron Fuller on
Friday, 12 Feb 2010 10:26.
Feb11
I received an email from a co-worker of mine who is seeing domain controllers which have high levels of processor utilization when the Operations Manager agent is running on a domain controller. I have seen this occasionally in different environments and for different reasons. The following is a summary of conditions which I have seen that can cause high processor utilization and items that m...
Posted by Cameron Fuller on
Thursday, 11 Feb 2010 05:38.
Feb9
During some recent tests with creating my own self tuning threshold I found out that once you create the self tuning threshold you cannot change the settings for the sensitivity via the gui. You can still use overrides which alter the sensitivity but the slider bar shown below is grayed out after the monitor was created.
For background before we move on, what does sensitivity mean from a self...
Posted by Cameron Fuller on
Tuesday, 9 Feb 2010 06:33.
Feb8
For those who haven’t already picked this up from my earlier post about using technology to go back to basics I am into being frugal and especially into how to use technology to actually live a more frugal life. I’m a huge advocate of the Dave Ramsey approach to finances for my household and as part of that we have made some changes over the years to really save money where we can. We’ve made a...
Posted by Cameron Fuller on
Monday, 8 Feb 2010 05:23.
Feb8
An updated version for the ReSearch This management pack has been created for the R2 version of the management pack and has been updated to work for MOM 2005 as well. There had been issues with this management pack and how it integrated with the new systemcentercentral.com website which should be addressed with the updated version. This management pack provides an easy way to investigate aler...
Posted by Cameron Fuller on
Monday, 8 Feb 2010 08:55.
Feb6
One of the things that I’ve learned in the last few years is that there isn’t anyone I have met who does not know more than I do about at least one thing. The topic itself may vary (technology, life, marriage, spirituality, politics or even identifying what ran into my car most recently) but in all cases there is someone out there who knows more than I do on on at least one topic.
This also a...
Posted by Cameron Fuller on
Saturday, 6 Feb 2010 10:52.