Contoso.se

Welcome to contoso.se! My name is Anders Bengtsson and this is my blog about Microsoft infrastructure and system management. I am a principal engineer in the FastTrack for Azure team, part of Azure CXP, at Microsoft. Contoso.se has two main purposes, first as a platform to share information with the community and the second as a notebook for myself.

Everything you read here is my own personal opinion and any code is provided "AS-IS" with no warranties.

Anders Bengtsson

MVP
MVP awarded 2007,2008,2009,2010

My Books
Service Manager Unleashed
Service Manager Unleashed
Orchestrator Unleashed
Orchestrator 2012 Unleashed
OMS
Inside the Microsoft Operations Management Suite

Contoso.se

Welcome to contoso.se! My name is Anders Bengtsson and this is my blog about Azure infrastructure and system management. I am a senior engineer in the FastTrack for Azure team, part of Azure Engineering, at Microsoft.  Contoso.se has two main purposes, first as a platform to share information with the community and the second as a notebook for myself.

Everything you read here is my own personal opinion and any code is provided "AS-IS" with no warranties.



MVP awarded 2007,2008,2009,2010

My Books

Service Manager Unleashed


Orchestrator 2012 Unleashed


Inside the Microsoft Operations Management Suite

FAQ

I have notice a couple of common questions in newsgroups and forums this week.

Rule that will alert you if process X use more that Y % Processor Time
In this example I will montor if iexplorer (Internet Explorer) takes more that 1 % processor time. Maybe not a very common scenario, but it will work to show you how to setup this for other processes and thresholds.

First we need to create a new provider to collect the performance counter, and then an alert that will compare performance data and generates an alert. 

  1. Create a new provider in MOM 2005 Administrator Console
    Computer: or
    Object: Process (use “advanced” to enable this dropdown menu)
    Counter %Processor Time
    Instance: iexplorer (you might need to start that process before it shows up in the list)
  2. Create a new performance rule to compare performance data (threshold
    Provider:
    Schedule: Always process data
    Criteria: Leave default values
    Threshold: “Match when the threshold meet the following condition:” “greater than the following value: 1”
    Alert: Generate alert
    Alert suppression: Leave default settings
    Response: None
    Knowledge Base: Optional
    General: Input a name and verify that the rule is enabled 

That should do it. Note that it can take a couple of minutes before the new rule is active.

 

How do I see all members of a computer group?

  1. Start Operator Console
  2. Click public views
  3. Click computer groups
  4. Right-click a computer group and choose view -> computers