Vmware > SCVMMYesterday I needed a Biztalk 2004 management pack for Ops Mgr 2007. The only Biztalk managamange pack available in the System Center Operations Manager 2007 catalog is for Biztalk 2006. I converted the MOM 2005 Biztalk 2004 MP to Ops Mgr 2007 format, according to Petes guide. But, when I tried to import the management pack [...]
Archive for January, 2008
Converting MOM 2005 Biztalk 2004 MP
Posted: 31st January 2008 by Anders Bengtsson in System Center Operations Manager 20070
Links during January
Posted: 31st January 2008 by Anders Bengtsson in Microsoft Operations Manager 2005, System Center Operations Manager 2007Tool: What’s in my management pack? Dump the contents of a management pack. Link Download: Microsoft System Center Essentials 2007 VHD, link DOC: System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 System Requirements, link Video: System Center Operations Manager 2007 Service Pack 1 Training Videos, link Info: Support plans for OpsMgr 2007, SCE and MOM 2005 running [...]
TS: Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007, Configuring
Posted: 25th January 2008 by Anders Bengtsson in Microsoft Certified Professional, System Center Operations Manager 2007Finally the Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007, Configuring exam is live and public. If you pass you will be a Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS): System Center Operations Manager 2007, Configuration. You can read about the exam here. Good Luck!
Check passwords about to expire
Posted: 24th January 2008 by Anders Bengtsson in Scripts, System Center Operations Manager 2007I have written a small script that check if account passwords are about to expire. If they are, you get a event in the local event viewer. You can pick up that event with Ops Mgr and MOM and then generate a alert for your operators and/or administrators. You can download the script here. Default [...]
MS50028 Managing System Center Operations Manager 2007
Posted: 13th January 2008 by Anders Bengtsson in Books and courses, System Center Operations Manager 2007This week I have been teaching the new “Managing System Center Operations Manager 2007″ course. It is a 5-day course with a mix of theory, instructor led teaching and hands on labs. My understanding is that we were first in the world to carry out this course, outside Microsoft. It was a very instructive week and I [...]
ACS Collector Performance Counters
Posted: 13th January 2008 by Anders Bengtsson in System Center Operations Manager 2007After you have implement Audit Collection Services in your environment you must start monitor the collector. There is a number of performance counters that can help you with this: Connected Clients Database Queue % Full Database Queue Backoff Threshold in % Database Queue Disconnect Threshold in % Database Queue Length DB Loader Event Inserts/sec DB [...]
“matches wildcard” in Ops Mgr 2007
Posted: 5th January 2008 by Anders Bengtsson in System Center Operations Manager 2007In MOM 2005 we could add advanced criterias and for example check if a event description included a special word, “matches wildcard”. In this post I will show you how to get the same feature in Ops Mgr 2007. I want an alert when a event with “unsucessfully” is written in the local event log. I have create [...]
DPM MP Reports
Posted: 2nd January 2008 by Anders Bengtsson in System Center Data Protection Manager, System Center Operations Manager 2007I have installed the System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 (DPM) management pack for Operations Manager 2007 and notice that there are no reports included in the management pack, but there are a number of reports in the DPM 2007 Administrator Console. If you want to view these reports from the Ops Mgr console you can create a new Web Page [...]
You sometimes gets something like this in for example an alert Affected monitor ID: AE311D41-D0C4-31B3-B2A1-E503E7226F42 Instance ID: 54321668-EFFA-411D-A511-3C6D9E119294 Management Group ID: 17F3B66F-8597-7BB1-35EE-F382AAF6B299 You then want to know the name of the monitor. Unfortunately the built-in advanced search tool in the console dont support searching on Monitor ID. But you can run this SQL query in your [...]