February 08 2010 5:16 PM

Updated ReSearch This Management Pack

An updated version for the ReSearch This management pack has been created for the R2 version of the management pack and has been updated to work for MOM 2005 as well. There had been issues with this management pack and how it integrated with the new syst

February 06 2010 11:57 AM

Community Written Books

One of the things that I’ve learned in the last few years is that there isn’t anyone I have met who does not know more than I do about at least one thing. The topic itself may vary (technology, life, marriage, spirituality, politics or even identifying wh

February 03 2010 3:31 PM

ReSearch This! KB - DNS 2008 Server External Addresses Resolution Alert

Alert: DNS 2008 Server External Addresses Resolution Alert Issue: The rule performs a DNS query of type “NS” (as provided in the Query Type parameter), which means the query is search for the name servers of the domain provided in the Host parameter. The

January 26 2010 3:02 PM

ReSearch This! KB - Health Service Unloaded System Rule(s)

Alert: Health Service Unloaded System Rule(s) Issue: Agents were reporting error number 7002 (The Health Service could not log on the RunAs account for management group because it has not been granted the ‘Log On Locally’ right. Agents were grey. There w

January 25 2010 6:56 PM

QuickTricks: Not Monitored Servers in OpsMgr

If you have servers in your environment which appear as “Not Monitored” in the Agent Managed section of the Operations Manager/Administration console you may want to check this out. We found that agents which had been installed with the wrong Management

January 22 2010 8:41 PM

OpsMgr RMS for Forefront with the OpsMgr R2 agent installed?

Recently I was working in an environment where the root management server for the Forefront environment would regularly restart the health service. At first I figured it was one of the RMS thresholds (private bytes or some such thing – see the end of thi

January 18 2010 3:11 PM

Tuning “A SQL job failed to complete successfully”

In Operations Manager 2007 R2, one of the most common alerts that I am running into is the “SQL job failed to complete successfully” alert which is part of the SQL server management pack. In one of our environments, the request was made to provide an aler

January 16 2010 10:21 AM

QuickTricks – What server has my OpsMgr database?

I’ve had several times recently when I was on a client site, and nobody knew what server was hosting the Operations Manager database (the usual response is “I’ve slept since then”). Each time I end up digging around for a while so I thought it would make

January 14 2010 9:16 PM

ReSearch This! KB - Root Management Server Unavailable

Alert: Root Management Server Unavailable Issue: We ran into an issue recently where we saw issues with most of our distributed applications changing to a grey state seemingly for no reason. After a little digging we determined that the RMS server itself

December 10 2009 10:14 AM

Management packs won’t import into OpsMgr

Issue: Trying to one or more management packs into Operations Manager and they are all failing? Resolution: Check the free space on the OperationsManager database. There are alerts to provide warning if there is less than 40% available free disk space ho