Typically, one would monitor a TCP port remotely, from a designated watcher node, as a means of confirming availability of a network service, but in some cases, this may not be the most desirable method to poll for TCP port status. For example, if you wanted to monitor the availability of tcp port on a [...]
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When creating some types of Unit Monitors (such as SNMP polls) in the OpsMgr GUI, SCOM will set the default type of the values in the expressions to be strings. If your health monitoring logic performs numerical comparisons, this will create unexpected and unreliable results, because the monitor will be performing comparisons on the numbers [...]
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This utility has so changed the way I work, it’s hard to imagine life before it. Terminals is a remote desktop utility that implements tabbed windows for RDP, VNC, SSH, ICA (and more) remote connections. Get it here: http://www.codeplex.com/Terminals
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Marios Philippopoulos did a great job with an article on monitoring long-running SQL blocks with SCOM 2007 at SQLServerCentral.com. The article: Monitoring Database Blocking Through SCOM 2007 Custom Rules and Alerts (http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Blocking/64038/) provides a set of scripts for detecting (and display vital information about) long-running blocks in SQL Server 2000 and 2005 as well as [...]
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