Merge two incidentsWhat happens if you install a MOM 2005 agent on a longhorn server? Well it works, but Longhorn is operating system version 6.0 so the machine will only end up in “Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 Agents” as default.
Archive for September, 2006
Longhorn in MOM 2005
Posted: 25th September 2006 by Anders Bengtsson in Microsoft Operations Manager 20050
Microsoft Audit Connection Service (ACS)
Posted: 24th September 2006 by Anders Bengtsson in System Center Operations Manager 2007Microsoft Audit Connection Service (ACS) is a new function in SCOM 2007 that can collect logs from machines. All logs are saved in a special Audit Collection database. You can then run reports against the database to see trends and do security analyzes. You can also trace a user over many systems. In SCOM 2007 [...]
What happens to agents when the management server becomes inaccessible? You can in MOM 2005 Administrator Console setup where every agent can failover. You do this under management server properties, under computers (pic5). You can setup that agents from MOMSRV1 will failover to MOMSRV2 and MOMSRV3. You can’t setup in which order, if first to [...]
eXc software have a lot of exciting management packs for MOM 2005. If you cant find any other way to monitor a service, device or application there is most probable a management pack from eXc software to do it. They have for example management packs for Cisco, Vmware, MySQL, TrendMicro and McAfee Anti-Virus Server. I [...]
TechNet Webcast on MOM
Posted: 18th September 2006 by Anders Bengtsson in Microsoft Operations Manager 2005TechNet Webcast: Agility Now (Part 08 of 10): Managing the Environment from Microsoft Operations Manager (Level 200) Having solved data management issues in the previous webcast, in part eight we illustrate how Contoso uses Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) and the MOM management packs to achieve the firm’s management goals. With MOM, Contoso is able to [...]
Ping script
Posted: 14th September 2006 by Anders Bengtsson in Microsoft Operations Manager 2005, ScriptsThis script ping different machines. If a machine dont answer a local event will ge generated. If you set strLog to 1 a event will be generated for every successful ping. You will need to create a parameter named Hosts that contains all hosts you want to ping. ‘ ‘ If strLog = “1″ then a event will be [...]
Check if there are any *.err files
Posted: 13th September 2006 by Anders Bengtsson in Microsoft Operations Manager 2005, ScriptsThis script checks if there is any .err files in the directory. If there is any, a event is generated in the local event viewer. Dim fso Set fso = CreateObject(“Scripting.FileSystemObject”) Set folder = fso.getfolder(“C:\”) For Each File in Folder.Files If fso.GetExtensionName(File)=”err” Then Const EVENT_WARNING = 2 Set objShell = CreateObject(“Wscript.Shell”) objShell.LogEvent EVENT_WARNING, _ “There [...]
Count number of instances
Posted: 13th September 2006 by Anders Bengtsson in Microsoft Operations Manager 2005, ScriptsThis script checks if notepad.exe is running more that 4 times. If it is running more than 4 times a event is generated. You can then collect those event and get an alert in operators console. strComputer = “.” Set objWMIService = GetObject(“winmgmts:\\” & strComputer & “\root\cimv2″) Set objShell = CreateObject(“Wscript.Shell”)Set colProcesses = objWMIService.ExecQuery _ (“Select [...]
There is a new version of “Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2000, 2004, and 2006 Management Pack for Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2005″ Don´t forget to backup your old version before you import this version. Download here
Now you can order ”Start to Finish Guide to Microsoft Operations Manager 2005″ In the Start to Finish Guide to Microsoft Operations Manager 2005, Microsoft Product Technology Specialist John Roller clearly explains the installation, configuration, and administration of MOM 2005. He describes the MOM user interfaces, including the Administrator, Operator, Reporting, and Web Consoles. Administration topics [...]