If you want to run MOM 2005 user interfaces in Vista you will have to first install .NET Framework 1.1. If you then want to run Vista interfaces with another domain account you can create a new shortcut and use the runas.exe command. For example

runas.exe /user:DOMAIN\LOGON “C:\Program Files\Microsoft Operations Manager 2005\mom.ui.opsconsoleexe.exe”

.NET Framework 1.1

Is your MOM to sensitive and sending you alerts in early stage? As you presumably know you can change thresholds and modify all rules to suite your environment better. I will show one way to do that in this post. In this example I will collect event ID 2 from the Application log and when there has been two alerts with event ID 2 within one minute I will generate an alert.

Start by create one rule to consolidate similar events with the following settings

• Data Provider – Provider Name: Application
• Data Provider – Provider type: Windows NT Event Log
• Criteria – with event id 2
• Schedule – Always process data
• Consolidate – Choose Event number, Source Name, and input set that events must occur within 60 seconds
• Knowledge Base: Input a suitable text
• General: Input a suitable name and verify that the rule is enabled

• Data Provider – Provider Name: Application
• Data Provider – Provider type: Windows NT Event Log
• Criteria – event ID 2 and repeat count is at least 2 (Advanced criteria)
• Schedule – Always process data
• Alert – Check the box to generate alert
• Alert Suppression – leave default settings
• Responses – add suitable if needed
• Knowledge Base: Input a suitable text
• General: Input a suitable name and verify that the rule is enabled

That’s it. After two events with event ID 2 and the same source name you will get an alert.

Your IT department presumably includes a number of team and roles. None of them want to get alert notification about machines or services that they do not administrate. If you want to setup a more detailed notification within your MOM environment I would recommend you to use MOM notification workflow. There is only one thing, MOM notification workflow does not work on SQL 2005. If your OnePoint database is running on a SQL 2005 machine you can´t use MOM notification workflow.

But :) There is another way to setup detailed notification. It takes a little more planning but it will work.

1. Create a new rule group, name it something suitable like “Notification – All Critical Alerts”
2. Associate it with a computer group, for example “Microsoft Windows 2003 Servers”
3. Create a new alert rule in your new rule group
   Alert Criteria: of severity = Critical
   Responses: Send a notification to a notification group
4. Commit Configuration Changes

So what have we done? We have a rule that will send a notification on any alert that have severity critical. This rule is associated with a computer group including all Windows 2003 servers, so it will only be alerts with severity critical from a machine running Windows 2003 server. How can we include management packs then?

1. open properties for your new alert rule and click the alert criteria tab
2. check the “only match alerts generated by rules in the following group:” and click “Browse”
3. choose a management pack, for example Active Directory, click ok and then ok to close the properties window

What have we now done? We have added one more criterias to our alert rule, now a alert must be critical and come from a Windows 2003 server and be generated from the Active Directory management pack.

• We control “which computers” with the associated computer group at the rule group level.
• We control “which management pack” with the “only match alerts generated by rules in the following group:” criteria

You can also add advanced criteria for example severity is at least warning.

You can find more information about Notification Workflow Solution Accelerator here. If you decide to use NTWF Pete Zerger has done a great step by step guide that you can find here.

 

 

 

MOM 2005 request sequences are not imported successfully when you follow the steps in the “Microsoft Operations Manager Web Sites and Services Management Pack Guide”

• http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929796

System Center Operations Manager 2007 Webcasts on TechNet

• Distributed Applications

 Microsoft IT Showcase: Manageability Services at Microsoft

• Overview of how the Microsoft Manageability Services group operates and changes the global Microsoft Information Technology environment utilizing the Microsoft Operations Framework with Systems Management Server and Microsoft Operations Manager. Download here

Availability of the Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 SP1 Agent Prerequisite Component for Windows XP Embedded software package

• http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929869

Reasons why you should use the Simple recovery model for the MOM 2005 OnePoint and SystemCenterReporting databases

• http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929870