Target knowledge to a group of users Timed Script Two State Monitor
This is an example how to use a timed script two state monitor to monitor a file exists. If the file exists the monitor is healthy.
- Create a Timed Script Two State Monitor, input suitable name, scheudle, target and description.
- Input this script below
- As unhealthy expression input “Property[@Name=’Status’] equals Error”
- As healthy expression input “Property[@Name=’Status’] equals Ok”
- Configure alerts and then your done.
Dim oAPI, oBag
Set oAPI = CreateObject(“MOM.ScriptAPIâ€)
Set oBag = oAPI.CreatePropertyBag()
Set objFSO = CreateObject(“Scripting.FileSystemObjectâ€)
strFile = “C:\myfile.logâ€
If objFSO.FileExists(strFile) Then
Call oBag.AddValue(“Statusâ€,â€Okâ€)
Call oAPI.Return(oBag)
Else
Call oBag.AddValue(“Statusâ€,â€Errorâ€)
Call oAPI.Return(oBag)
End If
Ops Mgr 2007 R2 Beta 1
Beta 1 of Ops Mgr 2007 R2 has been released to the connect website. You can download the beta there and start evaluating it. On the system center team blog there is a good post about R2 and all the news. Below you can see and read about some of the news in R2. One of the first things I noticed is how fast everything in the console is.
When you import new management packs you can select “Download Management Packs”. With that you can import directly from the system center ops mgr 2007 catalog. The wizard will show you which MPs are in the catalog and if they are newer then the version you have installed.
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When you right-click an alert you get the option to create a notification based on that alert. It looks almost as the “create rule wizard” in Outlook. There are a number of criteria and conditions you can use when creating a new subscription.Â
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Under the Authoring workspace there are a number of new management pack templates, including a couple of Linux and UNIX machines.
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There are also a number of new objects under management pack objects, for example Service Level Tracking. Service Level Tracking enables you to follow the performance and availability objects/services in your environment. You can create monitors to monitor your commitments, service level objective goals.
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Under the administration workspace there is a number of news. One of the important features of R2 is support for Unix and Linux servers. When you run the discovery wizard you can now choose to discover Unix and Linux computers. When creating smtp notification channels you can select importance for your notification.
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On the R2 beta CD there is a new version of the Authoring Console too.
Notes from the Ask The Experts Booth
During TechEd EMEA I have been working in the Ask the Expert booth, discussing Operations Manager. There have been some really good questions during the week.
Q: What´s new in Operations Manager 2007 and when will it be released? A: I wrote a post about R2 yesterday, read it here. R2 will be RTM around May/MMS 2009.
Q: Can I monitor multiple forests with Operations Manager? A: Yes you can. The new AD MP supports multiple forests. Andy has a good summarize about the new AD MP here.
Q: Where do I start with Operations Manager 2007? A: If you want to read a book, I recommend this book. If you want to read online, you will find all MSFT documents regarding Operations Manager here. Microsoft have also released a new version of their course, more info here. If you want to download an evaluation copy you can do that here.
Of course there were also a lot of questions about cross platform and monitoring non Microsoft devices with Operations Manager. In this demo Barry Shilmover uses Ops Man to manage an application that is spread across SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, Apache, and IIS, hosted on Windows, Solaris, Suse, and Redhat. You can also read about the cross platform extension in this blog post.
System Center Service Manager Roadmap
Yesterday I attend at Michael Nappi session “System Center Service Manager Product Overview”. During this the roadmap of Service Manager was shown.
- 2008 H2, Beta 1 (early December or end of November, will not include the self-service IT portal)
- 2009 H1, Beta 2 (summer 2009, will include the self-service IT portal and will also be feature complete)
- 2009 H2, RC
- 2010 H1, RTM
Service Manager three big investments areas are:
Automated MOF/ITIL process
- Incident Management
- Self-Service IT Portal
- Change Management
System Center Integration
- System Center Configuration Manager
- System Center Operations Manager
- Active Directory
Extensible platform
- Publik SDK
- Linked framework
- Management pack extensibility
Ops Mgr 2007 R2
R2 will include a number of new things. One of the really big news in Ops Mgr 2007 R2 is cross platform capabilities. In this demo Barry Shilmover uses Ops Man to manage an application that is spread across SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, Apache, and IIS, hosted on Windows, Solaris, Suse, and Redhat. Other news are integrated service level reports and dashboard, better performance and a number of improvments in the console for example new monitoring templates.
The Operations Manager 2007 R2 Beta will be available for download end of November. You can read more about Ops Mgr R2 here.
TechEd Hands-On Labs
This morning I have been on MCT proctor briefing at the conference center. There was a lot of activity going on in the building today, a lot of things that needs to be ready for tomorrow. Along with other things during the briefing we tried the hands-on labs. I must say that TechEd hands-on labs this year is at a higher level than earlier year, at least the management and operations (MGT) labs.
There are both introduction labs but also a number of advanced labs like Ops Mgr labs about cross-platform monitoring, SAP monitoring and about building connectors in Visual Studio. There are also a number of good labs about SCCM, SCE and DPM. Some example of labs are upgrade from SMS 2003 to SCCM 2007, how to configure branch office distributed points, distribute OS with SCCM, SCCM native mode and how to protect both Exchange and SQL with DPM.
Don’t miss this great opportunity to try Microsoft products and cool features!
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