Ops Mgr 2007 R2 RC at ConnectWith default settings cross-platform agents in Operations Manager 2007 R2 don’t fail-over to another management server if the primary management server goes offline. If the primary management server goes offline you will loose monitoring of all cross-platform machines communicating through that management server. The System Center Cross platform and Interop team blog has a couple [...]
Archive for March, 2010
Cross-platform failover
Posted: 30th March 2010 by Anders Bengtsson in System Center Operations Manager 20071
Update resolution state with a script
Posted: 23rd March 2010 by Anders Bengtsson in Scripts, System Center Operations Manager 2007This is a script you can use to update resolution state. It will look at all new alerts (resolutionstate = 0) and see if the alert description contains “domain” or “AD”, if they do, the script will set a new resolution state. The ID for the resolution state can be found under alert settings in the [...]
Importing knowledge into Service Manager 2010 – part 2
Posted: 16th March 2010 by Anders Bengtsson in System Center Service ManagerIn this post I wrote about how-to import knowledge into Service Manager 2010. This week I did some tests about importing knowledge including data from a word file (docx) and a rich text format file (rtf). In my previous post about importing knowledge I wrote how you could use files and how they are mapped to the [...]
The System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Dashboard with Operations Manager
Posted: 12th March 2010 by Anders Bengtsson in System Center Operations Manager 2007The System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Dashboard can show you a web based status report, including system deployments, security updates, system health status and more for your Configuration Manager environment. More info about the dashboard at the System Center Team Blog. Timothy McFadden posted a good post about how to use this dashboard with Operations Manager [...]
This script can be used with a monitor to monitor size of a file. In this example it monitor file C:\temp\myfile.txt and will generate an alert if that file is bigger then 50Mb (52428800 bytes). Settings for your two state script monitor can be General Name: Contoso – check file monitor Monitor Target: choose a [...]
Investigate most common alert
Posted: 8th March 2010 by Anders Bengtsson in Scripts, System Center Operations Manager 2007The following SQL queries can be used to first list which machine or path and then rules or monitors that generate most alerts in your environment. The first query will show you which computer or path that generate most alerts. The second query will show you which rule or monitor that generate most alerts on one singel machine [...]