opsm.gr

Exciting news in the world of tech books… I spotted a Facebook post by Marcus Oh announcing that Amazon are now accepting pre-orders for the upcoming release of System Center Opalis Integration Server 6.3 Unleashed. There is a long list (by book standards) of contributing authors including one of the hardest working women in IT, [...]

For those that can’t make it to the Microsoft Management Summit (MMS) this year, but want to know about all the news and product gossip then there is only one source you need to turn to, the System Center Podcast. Being launched at this years MMS, the System Center Podcast will be a monthly produced [...]

Most organisations have a process for decommissioning servers. Some have it documented and implemented as policy, while others take a more ad-hoc approach. Whichever method you employ, when implementing OpsMgr in your environment, you must give some consideration to the decommissioning process within OpsMgr. As one of the final steps in the decommissioning process, you [...]

I have finished coding v1.5 of the 1E System Center Watcher Service (OMWatcher) and have done some preliminary testing. So far… so good. Some new features that are included: Support for clustered RMS (no remedial action is taken though emails are sent and events are logged) Checks the availability of the OperationsManager database (no action [...]

This article covers an issue I saw recently where running the MOMCERTIMPORT tool does not import the certificate into the Operations Manager certificate store.

This is the first post in a new series based around the basics of OpsMgr, providing entry level information on the core concepts, processes, methodologies and techniques to assist those who are perhaps looking to further their knowledge of OpsMgr or new to the product.

I imported the Exchange 2010 Management Pack into a customers test environment and gave enough time for discoveries etc to run. I fired up the Ops Console and to my surprise there were no discovered items… literally.

The strength of any great monitoring solution is not just in its ability to report issues and the current state of servers and applications (there are a plethora of good monitoring tools that can do this), but in its ability to resolve problems automatically when they arise.

A client contacted me today with an unusual problem. They reported that when they attempted to resolve an alert in the Active Alerts view

The guys over at SystemCenterForum have a great series on virtualising the various OpsMgr roles and components. Definitely worth a read if you are planning on going virtual with your OpsMgr environment.