Archive for August, 2007

New KB, The discovery process does not find computers that are present in your domain in Operations Manager 2007, link New KB, The SQL Server 2000 database engine health is not monitored in System Center Operations Manager 2007, here New KB, The appropriate tables and stored procedures are not created successfully when you install the [...]

Get-Rule -ID (v2)

Posted: 28th August 2007 by Anders Bengtsson in System Center Operations Manager 2007

If you have a rule or monitor that are incorrect configure you can end up with a event like the one below. Event Type: Error Event Source: Health Service Modules Event Category: None Event ID: 10102 Description: In PerfDataSource, could not resolve counter incorrectObject, incorrectCount, incorrectInstance. Module will be unloaded. One or more workflows were affected by this. Workflow name: [...]

Look for a word on a webpage

Posted: 23rd August 2007 by Anders Bengtsson in Microsoft Operations Manager 2005

I saw a question about looking at a website and verify that there where some words on it. If you follow my post, “How to Monitor a Web Site with Ops Mgr 2007“, then add the steps in this post, you will have a web application looking for a word on a website. After you have [...]

Schedule Report to Update Every Hour

Posted: 16th August 2007 by Anders Bengtsson in System Center Operations Manager 2007

I saw a question about generating a report every hour for “the hour before”, that you can´t do out of the box. But I have a idea, why dont generate a report every half hour, for the entire day? That would give you a updated report every half hour, including the hour before, or as [...]

In this post I will show how to create a monitor that check for one event and if there is not another event within a specified timeframe minute from the first event, the monitor will generate an alert. I will reset the monitor with time, 3 minutes, but you can choose to reset the monitor with [...]

I have made a script that will search for a word in a logfile and send the result back as performance data to Ops Mgr 2007. With default settings will the script look in the IIS log files (C:\windows\system32\LogFiles\W3SVC1\) for the last hour and search for the word “POST”. It will then return how many times [...]

Proxy Settings

Posted: 3rd August 2007 by Anders Bengtsson in System Center Operations Manager 2007

Ops Mgr product team at Microsoft has made a tool to work with proxy settings in Ops Mgr 2007. With this tool you can easy browse proxy settings. A great way to for example very that all your domain controllers has the correct setting. Current version is 1.1. You can download the tool here.

This is a script that will monitor if a process is running, and if it is running, for how long it has been been running. Default settings is monitoring notepad.exe and will generate a local event if it has been running for more than 15 minutes. You can implement this script with timed commands/execute a script Download the [...]

Overrides Explorer Utility

Posted: 2nd August 2007 by Anders Bengtsson in System Center Operations Manager 2007

Boris Yanushpolsky in the Ops Mgr product team at Microsoft has made a tool to work with overrides in Ops Mgr 2007. With this tool you can easy browse overrides based on type or computer. You can download the tool here , current version is 3.2