The Cross Platform Extensions were announced at the MMS and I wrote a post about the elements you need to test it. Here is the next part showing the install and the views and reports you get. I started this a month ago and it was delayed for various reasons so Cameron Fuller has a [...]
Archive for June, 2008
Xplat Part 2 – The Install
June 24, 2008Disk Space CPU % Report Table
June 24, 2008One of the reports that MOM 2005 had out of the box was a summary report that showed a number of server parameters like CPU and disk space.
This does not exist in 2007 although it is constantly asked for by a number of organisations that I speak to and see comments about in the newsgroups. [...]
Exchange 2007 SP1 MP
June 23, 2008The updated management pack was release on 22nd June and is version 6.0.6278.12. So far so good. And as with all these things it is good to read the MP guide that is extracted as part of the MSI package before installing it.
Some key points (there are more in the guide)
The management pack was updated [...]
Memory, Memory, Memory
June 20, 2008If there is one area that can help in an OpsMgr deployment it is memory on the RMS. And to do that usually means 64 bit OS. Windows 2003 Standard x64 supports up to 32 GB whereas x32 is only 4 GB.
Checkout the memory usage on this RMS.
Frightening really. If there is one [...]
Delete Me
June 18, 2008Well not literally of course!
When I am doing training to transfer across an OM installation I like to show some of the things it can do. It is better to use the onsite system that has been installed as the server names will be familiar. With MOM 2005 I used to use a virtual machine [...]
KB951979 (SP1 Hotfix)
June 12, 2008Well after the fun and games with Microsoft Support I eventually received my hotfix. They state that you use it at your own risk, they password protect the download file, you then run it to get an MSI which you then run to get the 4 management packs. Why do they make it so hard?
If [...]
SolarWinds free Exchange Monitor
June 12, 2008Saw this at 4Sysopshttp://4sysops.com/archives/solarwinds-exchange-monitor/
Nothing to do with SCOM but it does provide monitoring. Reminds me of Quest Spotlight. By the Quest do some free tools including Spotlight for Windows – http://www.quest.com/free-tools/.
SolarWinds Exchange Monitor is small and neat but it can only point to one server at a time and it does not remember the servers [...]
Hotfix KB951979
June 11, 2008A few blogs have mentioned an upcoming hotfix including Clive Eastwood.
https://blogs.technet.com/cliveeastwood/archive/2008/06/10/new-kb951979-sp1-hotfix-problems-occur-on-a-management-server-that-is-running-system-center-operations-manager-2007-service-pack-1-when-certain-management-packs-are-installed.aspx
He says
Problems occur on a management server that is running System Center Operations Manager 2007 Service Pack 1 when certain management packs are installed. These management packs will not be posted on the Management pack catalog and are only available as a hotfix at this [...]
Subscription Issues
June 9, 2008The organisation I am currently working with has used Alert rules in MOM 2005 to create an event on the management servers when a new alert comes in. There is an agent from their framework package that picks up these events. This is an old trick from the MOM 2000 days but works remarkably well [...]
The Blog List
June 5, 2008A while back I started a page at the side of my blog with a list of all the MOM and SCOM bloggers.
http://ianblythmanagement.wordpress.com/mom-blog-links/
The feeling was if you came across my blog by accident but wanted more on Operations Manager you could look at the list and add which ones you fancied.
As time has gone on [...]
