Jul29
This blog series includes the following posts:
Part 1 - Gathering Custom Performance Counters in OpsMgr
Part 2 - How to create a free disk space report
Part 3 - How to create a processor utilization report for a group of servers
Part 4 - How to create a custom performance counters report for a group of servers
Part 5 - How to make my custom report publicly available
Part 6 - How to s...
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Thursday, 29 Jul 2010 05:20.
Jul28
This blog series includes the following posts:
Part 1 - Gathering Custom Performance Counters in OpsMgr
Part 2 - How to create a free disk space report
Part 3 - How to create a processor utilization report for a group of servers
Part 4 - How to create a custom performance counters report for a group of servers
Part 5 - How to make my custom report publicly available
Part 6 - How to s...
Posted by Cameron Fuller on
Wednesday, 28 Jul 2010 06:54.
Jul27
In the previous blog posts we discussed how to gather custom performance counters and examples of how to create custom reports for free disk space and processor utilization. In this blog entry we will use the performance counters created in the first part of the series and the concepts used to create other custom reports to bring us to this step. This blog series includes the following posts:
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Posted by Cameron Fuller on
Tuesday, 27 Jul 2010 06:49.
Jul26
In the previous blog posts we have discussed how to gather our own custom performance counters, and how to create a simple report for free disk space. Another commonly asked request is how to create a report which shows processor utilization for a group of servers (such as a group of web servers in a server farm). This blog series includes:
Part 1 - Gathering Custom Performance Counters in Op...
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Monday, 26 Jul 2010 06:34.
Jul22
In the first part of this series we discussed how to gather custom performance counters in OpsMgr (which we will later use in a custom report). In this part we will discuss the steps required to create a simple free disk space report as this is one of the top three cases I am seeing for OpsMgr reporting: Show me the amount of free space on my servers over time, show me the processor utilization...
Posted by Cameron Fuller on
Thursday, 22 Jul 2010 10:11.
Jul21
This is the first blog post in a six part series which is designed to show the steps required throughout the process – from gathering your own performance counters, to designing simple custom reports to making them available in an environment. I decided to write this process up in detail with examples to show that it as not as difficult as it may seem. When I first started working with reports ...
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Wednesday, 21 Jul 2010 04:26.
Jul20
After creating several service monitors and process monitors, we determined that due to how we were prioritizing alerts we wanted to change the default configuration of the service and process monitors from Critical/Medium to Critical/High. The goal was to do this for specific service and process monitors but not all of them. These settings are defaulted when the service or process monitor is c...
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Tuesday, 20 Jul 2010 08:40.
Jul19
During some tuning on a client site, we ran across a server which was in red state with no active alerts. Digging into health explorer we found that the red state was due to a monitor in the Group Policy management pack. Ian Blyth has done a write-up on this alert which is available at: http://ianblythmanagement.wordpress.com/2009/12/14/group-policy-preprocessing-active-directory-alert/
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Monday, 19 Jul 2010 06:43.
Jul1
In an environment where we have done a lot of work to use custom groups for subscriptions a good question was asked of me recently - “How do I backup and restore my Channels, Subscriptions and Subscribers?”. This is a reasonable question because based upon our tests we have done in our environment as follows:
Create a custom rule
Create a subscription which contains the custom rule (by rul...
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Thursday, 1 Jul 2010 05:49.
Jul1
A while back I wrote a blog entry on how to move Live Maps from a QA environment to a production environment (available here). When I added the new maps, I renamed them to remove the QA names in the Savision Live Maps authoring tool. While this worked (mostly), there was an annoying issue which occurred for the maps which were moved. As an example a top level map was labeled “MAP1”, and our sub...
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Thursday, 1 Jul 2010 05:31.