opsm.gr

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 [...]

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 / [...]

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.