Some KBs published during december The SystemCenterDTSPackageTask scheduled task is not completed successfully on a computer that is running MOM 2005 Reporting http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929390 The MOM agent or the MOM server does not start, and event 9029 is logged in Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/883347/en-us The MOM 2005 service does not start on a MOM Management [...]
Archive for December, 2006
New MOM KB articles
Posted: 31st December 2006 by Anders Bengtsson in Microsoft Operations Manager 20050
From SYSLOG to MOM
Posted: 28th December 2006 by Anders Bengtsson in Microsoft Operations Manager 2005Admittedly a couple of months old KB article, but I think most of you have some Linux box running with out monitoring. HOWTO: Configure Microsoft Operation Manager 2000 or 2005 to monitor Unix devices by using Syslog http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555450
ADAM Management Pack
Posted: 23rd December 2006 by Anders Bengtsson in Microsoft Operations Manager 2005Quest has released a free management pack for ADAM. In summary, the MP provides the following capabilities: – monitoring the services that ADAM itself is critically dependant on – monitoring the health of ADAM including replication, LDAP, net logon service, intersite messaging, Windows time service, the key distribution center(KDC) – collection of critical performance data [...]
New management packs
Posted: 22nd December 2006 by Anders Bengtsson in Microsoft Operations Manager 2005There is a new management pack available, ”Microsoft Windows Key Management Service” management pack. You can download it here Monitor and report the health of Microsoft Windows Key Management Services ability to support Windows client activation requests in volume licensed environments. There is also a new version of DHCP management pack. Onw of the news is [...]
Addition to SCOM 2007 RC2
Posted: 19th December 2006 by Anders Bengtsson in System Center Operations Manager 2007There is some additions for SCOM 2007 available at MS Connect website OpsMgr 2007 RC2 – SDK docs and samples This package contains the OpsMgr 2007 RC2 SDK documentation chm. It also includes samples that show a number of scenarios around using the SDK apis to insert data into OpsMgr 2007 and also using the [...]
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Exchange 2007 management pack
Posted: 15th December 2006 by Anders Bengtsson in Microsoft Operations Manager 2005“Management Pack for Exchange Server 2007 for MOM 2005″ is now available for download. You will not find it in the regular Management Pack Catalog. You can download it here here The Exchange Server 2007 Management Pack includes rules and scripts to monitor and report on performance, availability, and reliability of all Exchange 2007 server roles including [...]
Operations Manager RC2
Posted: 14th December 2006 by Anders Bengtsson in System Center Operations Manager 2007Operations Manager RC2 is now available at Microsoft Connect Some of the news are Improved reporting More reports by default More stable Improved performance Cluster support Improved documentation
Run tasks with extended permissions
Posted: 10th December 2006 by Anders Bengtsson in Microsoft Operations Manager 2005, ScriptsTasks is programs that you have access to directly from Operators Console. It is basic commands like ping but also more advanced commands for Active Directory troubleshooting. After you import more management packs you will get more tasks. You can also create your own tasks in Administrator console, management packs and tasks. When you run [...]
Restart a service if a process is missing
Posted: 3rd December 2006 by Anders Bengtsson in Microsoft Operations Manager 2005, ScriptsThis is a script that will restart a service if a process is missing. I this example the DFS service will be restarted if not notepad.exe is running. Maybe not a very likely scenario strProcess = “notepad.exe” ‘Name of the process strServiceName = “DFS” ‘Name of the service strComputer = “.”Set objWMIService = GetObject(“winmgmts:\\” & strComputer & [...]