March 15 2010 6:12 PM

What is ODR and Why do we Care?

After reading Ake’s post the logic to enabling the Operational Data Reporting make a lot more sense now. The screenshots in his post show the type of information that Microsoft can get to their MP developers based upon how the MP’s are functioning in the

March 12 2010 10:36 AM

OpsMgr Gateway ‘Not Monitored’

This particular issue has been one of the banes of my existence since I started deploying large-scale Operations Manager 2007 environments. I follow the best instructions available to the letter and create my certificates, use the MOMCertImport tool, ver

February 27 2010 6:28 PM

What’s New in the OpsMgr MP? (6.1.7599.0)

Normally I don’t blog on updated versions of management packs (the only notable exception is the By Example series which discusses how to install, configure and tune management packs). However, the updated OpsMgr management pack implements some solid enh

February 25 2010 6:16 PM

QuickTricks – Select/unselect all in Reports

This may be one of those “well-duh!” posts, but I was watching a guy work through reports last week and he right-clicked on a blank space in the set of management packs and it popped up the option to Select all or Unselect all as shown below. I’ve spent

February 11 2010 6:36 AM

High Processor Utilization from the OpsMgr Agent?

I received an email from a co-worker of mine who is seeing domain controllers which have high levels of processor utilization when the Operations Manager agent is running on a domain controller. I have seen this occasionally in different environments and

February 09 2010 7:31 PM

Tip when creating a self tuning threshold

During some recent tests with creating my own self tuning threshold I found out that once you create the self tuning threshold you cannot change the settings for the sensitivity via the gui. You can still use overrides which alter the sensitivity but the

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