Alert: Data Warehouse failed to deploy reports for a management pack to SQL Reporting Services Server Management Pack Name: Data Warehouse Internal Library Management Pack Version: 7.0.9538.0 Rule or Monitor: Monitor Rule or Monitor Name: Data Warehouse Report Deployment Recovery → Continue Reading.

Alert: Operations Manager Web Console Unavailable Management Pack Name:  System Center Core Monitoring Management Pack Version: 7.0.9538.0 Rule or Monitor: Monitor Rule or Monitor Name: Web Console Watcher Monitor Rule or Monitor Notes: Issue: After an upgrade process for Operations → Continue Reading.

In my lab environment there are two services which are failing occasionally and causing Orchestrator not to function. The Orchestrator management pack alerted me of these situations but was not auto-restarting the services when they went offline. The two alerts → Continue Reading.

Overview: With the immense boom in the smart phone and tablet device market, many customers are moving towards accessing SCOM reports on mobile devices. They need a solution to view and generate SCOM reports on the go using their ipads → Continue Reading.

Overview: Monitoring unix processes for their availability and performance is key to understanding an applications performance. SCOM does provide a solution to monitor the availability of unix processes but doesn’t help collect performance data for those processes. In this article, I am → Continue Reading.

Alert: APM .NET Server-Side monitoring Configuration Error or Conflict Management Pack Name:  Operations Manager APM Infrastructure Monitoring Management Pack Version: 7.0.8560.0 Rule or Monitor: Monitor Rule or Monitor Name: APM .NET Server-Side Monitoring Configuration Rule or Monitor Notes: This rule → Continue Reading.

Company Knowledge is a property of rules and monitors in Operations Manager and Essentials that allows the addition of organization-specific information to the properties of a rule or monitor. This provides an area to communicate possible causes and resolutions unique → Continue Reading.

Here is an issue that came up recently during management pack tuning I thought worth sharing. Issue: All Lync 2010 server roles are discovered EXCEPT for the Edge Server role, which does not appear anywhere. However, the OpsMgr agent is → Continue Reading.

Recently, at one of our clients we received an updated management pack from a vendor with a few new reports.  The client was excited to demo these new reports for their executive team so we imported the new management pack → Continue Reading.

Alert: The following discovered partners are sending frequent invalid SIP requests to the Access Edge Server. Management Pack Name:  Microsoft Lync Server 2010 Management Pack Management Pack Version: 4.0.7577.0 Rule or Monitor: Monitor Rule or Monitor Name: Possible attack by → Continue Reading.