opsm.gr

So I just stumbled upon this and thought I’d share… When developing a Management Pack, it is considered best practice to declare Classes using the following format: Microsoft.Office.Communications.Server.2007.ServerRole What you will notice is the inclusion of a full-stop (.) to seperate the key words in the Class name above. I won’t go into why, but [...]

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 [...]

I came across this issue earlier this week when attempting to install OpsMgr R2 on an instance of SQL 2008 R2 Reporting Services. There are actually a couple of symptoms that are related to this issue. Symptom 1 During the setup you are presented with a dropdown list asking for the instance of Reporting Services [...]

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 seen several issues on the RMS and through troubleshooting, a number are all linked to the same problem. Issues seen are the RMS State appearing greyed out in the console, Alert Notifications not being sent via the SMTP channel (though other channels may be affected as well) and Event 623 generated by the [...]

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 [...]

For all those out there that are running System Cent er Operations Manager 2007 SP1 (as opposed to R2), the first Cumulative Update has been released, aptly named CU1. From the official Microsoft techNet article: The Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 SP1 Cumulative Update 1 resolves many issues that are found in System Center [...]

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

A former colleague of mine has written a great post on how to extend the capabilities of any OpsMgr alert notification by utilising the Command channel and a little powershell. As he points out, some of the information included in his sample is: Alert name, description, severity, resolution state, source, path, Time created Monitor / [...]

The 1E OMWatcher tool for Operations Manager 2007 fills an important, and often overlooked gap in every OpsMgr environment. Arising from the question… “Who’s watching the watcher?” … 1E OMWatcher is designed to monitor the 3 critical service on the Root Management Server.