I saw a question today about monitoring scheduled tasks with Operations Manager 2007. If you open the scheduled task window (start menu > all programs > accessories > system tools > scheduled tasks) you can open a logfile for your scheduled jobs, from the Advanced drop down menu, the default file is C:\Windows\SchedLgU. You can monitor this file from Ops [...]
Archive for July, 2007
Monitor Scheduled Tasks with Operations Manager 2007
Posted: 30th July 2007 by Anders Bengtsson in System Center Operations Manager 20071
Links During July
Posted: 28th July 2007 by Anders Bengtsson in Microsoft Operations Manager 2005, System Center Operations Manager 2007If you want to monitor SNMP v1 devices you can call to Microsoft and ask for the KB939364 fix. They will give it to you for free. Collection 3386: Implementing Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007, here Systems Center Operations Manager 2007 Documentation seems to have been updated, here Remote Operations Manager 2007 Deployment Guide, [...]
Operations Manager 2007 and Data Protection Manager in collaboration
Posted: 24th July 2007 by Anders Bengtsson in System Center Data Protection Manager, System Center Operations Manager 2007This document is a first look at System Center Data Protection Manager, how to use the product to backup Operations Manager and how to use Operations Manager 2007 to monitor Data Protection Manager. Download the article here
Active Directory and Exchange Management Pack Shared Script Mappings
Posted: 24th July 2007 by Anders Bengtsson in System Center Operations Manager 2007I want to inform you about some great information that was recently uploaded to Systemcenterforum.org. This download contains two Excel spreadsheets containing the shared script mappings for the Active Directory and Exchange management packs, including script name, monitors and rules using the script, as well as object type targeted. Tables list only scripts used by more than [...]
RMS Disaster Recovery – part II
Posted: 22nd July 2007 by Anders Bengtsson in System Center Operations Manager 2007In my last post I was doing some test with recovery of the root management server, where I restored a RMS without the encryption key. In this lab I will promote my second management server to RMS and then I will switch back the RMS role again. I have a root management server (RMS) named CO-OPSMGR-RMS [...]
System Center Service Manager Beta 1
Posted: 14th July 2007 by Anders Bengtsson in System Center Service ManagerI would like to tip you about a article from Pete Zerger (reviewed by me and Neale Brown) about Service Manager. It is a intresting article, as always when Pete is involved. You will find it here. You can read more about Service Manager here, and also download the beta from Microsoft Connect here. I [...]
Script: Check Account Status
Posted: 14th July 2007 by Anders Bengtsson in Microsoft Operations Manager 2005, Scripts, System Center Operations Manager 2007This is two simple script to check if a account is enable or disable. If enable, a local event will be created. In this example I check if the Guest account is enable, if it is a local event will be generated. You can then pickup that event with a event rule. strUser = “LDAP://cn=Guest,cn=Users,dc=contoso,dc=internal”Set objUser [...]
Audit Collection Services (ACS)
Posted: 12th July 2007 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 for example trace a user activity over many systems. [...]
RMS Disaster Recovery
Posted: 11th July 2007 by Anders Bengtsson in System Center Operations Manager 2007I saw a question about disaster recovery, how to deploy a new root management server (RMS) if the first goes down. In this post I will tell about a test I did regarding this topic. The RMS is the first management server installed in the management group. The RMS hold some special roles, if these [...]
Heartbeat Failure Notification
Posted: 7th July 2007 by Anders Bengtsson in System Center Operations Manager 2007In this post I will short show you how to setup a notification only for health service heartbeat failure. I have seen a number of questions in the groups about this. If you haven´t configure notification channels yet, you can follow my other guide about that, here. Start the console, click Administration, expand notifications and [...]