Posted on March 11, 2010 by Kristopher Bash
After weeks of pilot testing, the xSNMP Suite version 1.1.0 is ready for public beta release. In addition to some bug fixes and feature enhancements, this release includes four completely new management packs:
xSNMP Juniper-NetScreen MP: Implements comprehensive monitoring of NetScreen firewall devices
xSNMP NetApp MP: Implements comprehensive monitoring of NetApp storage devices
xSNMP Sun Hardware MP: Implements monitoring of Sun [...]
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Posted on March 5, 2010 by Kristopher Bash
Over a series of future posts, I intend to describe my efforts to build an OpsMgr SCX Management Pack for monitoring of Oracle running on UNIX/Linux platforms. In this initial post, I will describe the first step in building this MP: creating a custom shell command invoker probe action. As I had described in this previous post, [...]
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Posted on February 4, 2010 by Kristopher Bash
When monitoring UNIX/Linux servers, command execution or script-based monitors can provide a great deal of flexibility in many health-checking applications. The Operations Manager 2007 R2 cross-platform agent facilitates the execution of shell command lines or executable binaries and scripts with the Microsoft.Unix.WSMan.Invoke.Probe module. In this post, I will walk through the use of this module in [...]
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Posted on January 21, 2010 by Kristopher Bash
After many weeks of development efforts and testing, I have made the latest beta version of the xSNMP Management Packs available for download. Before getting into any more detail, I would be remiss if I did not acknowledge the invaluable help provided by some of the volunteers who tested these management packs through all stages of development. Many [...]
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Posted on December 20, 2009 by Kristopher Bash
Diagram view of an HP ProCurve device:
Diagram view of a Data Domain Restorer:
Health Explorer view for an APC UPS:
Diagram View for an HP Proliant server:
Performance View for a network interface:
Diagram view for a Brocade Fibre Channel Switch:
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Posted on December 14, 2009 by Kristopher Bash
In this post, I intend to describe some of the challenges in scaling SNMP monitoring in an Operations Manager environment to a large number of monitored objects, as well as my experiences from testing and the approaches that I took to address these challenges with the xSNMP Management Packs.
Background
In spite of the market availability of [...]
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Posted on December 12, 2009 by Kristopher Bash
Introduction
Over the past several weeks, I’ve been hard at work on some new SNMP management packs for Operations Manager 2007 R2, to replace the Cisco SNMP MP and extend similar functionality to a wide range of SNMP-enabled devices. In the next few posts, I hope to describe some of the design and development considerations related to [...]
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Posted on December 3, 2009 by Kristopher Bash
Although SQL backups of the content databases for a Windows SharePoint Services farm can be used for data recovery, it’s usually a good idea to also perform backups through the stsadm.exe utility to facilitate site and object-level restores. I recently took on a task to script a more robust solution for the automation of WSS [...]
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Posted on October 24, 2009 by Kristopher Bash
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 working on, [...]
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Posted on October 23, 2009 by Kristopher Bash
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 and [...]
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