I’ve only had my hands on the OpsMgr MP Authoring Resource Kit for about 24 hours now, but already the tools are proving to be invaluable. This post describes a problem that I was able to investigate with the Workflow Analyzer tool to determine the exact cause of the issue. Background In a management pack I’m [...]
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Microsoft has just released the Operations Manager Resource Kit, and my first impressions are very positive. I haven’t had a chance to test drive all of the tools, but the MP Best Practices Analyzer and Workflow Analyzer show great potential. The MP Best Practices Analyzer shows up under the Tools menu of the Authoring console [...]
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I have previously written about using the combination of an SnmpProbe and script probe in Operations Manager work flows to facilitate manipulation of numeric values. While this is currently the only way to perform numeric operations, there are some cases in which the only required manipulation of a numeric value is the calculation of a [...]
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In Operations Manager distributed agent-based monitoring scenarios, resource utilization of the monitoring workflows is rarely a point of major concern as the data sources and probe actions typically consume only nominal resources of the agent host system at any given time. However, in centralized monitoring scenarios, such as SNMP monitoring or wide-scale URL monitoring, the [...]
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This is probably pretty rare, but I came upon a peculiar error today while upgrading an Operations Manager 2007 SP1 RMS to R2. The error message was: Product: System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 — System Center Operations Manager Cross Platform management pack(s) are imported in this management group. Please delete these management packs(s) before [...]
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In this post, I described the use of PowerShell for the purpose of generating a report of all members of a particular group, including nested groups. The script utilized ADSI calls to the WinNT:// provider to recursively retrieve both local and domain group members. However, it was brought to my attention that the WinNT:// provider cannot [...]
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One of the realities of working with SNMP monitoring is that more often than not, the monitoring data are presented in a raw form that requires some kind of manipulation in order to render meaningful output. For example, required data manipulation may be a simple arithmetic operation on two values to calculate a percentage, or [...]
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Due to the ubiquity of the Net-SNMP agent, the Net-SNMP management packs can be used for a wide range of UNIX/Linux devices, and one of my primary intentions in creating these management packs was to extend them to Linux-based proprietary platforms such as Check Point Secure Platform and VMWare ESX. To that end, I am [...]
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