Updated SLD MP

Just noticed that the Service Level Dashboard MP (Solution Accelerator) has been incremented to version 6.0.6278.6. Download at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=67EF9823-631B-49B7-9D7F-9F125BDF27AE&displaylang=en&displaylang=en
Whats new – “New summary reports based on Dundas Gauges feature visual indicators that enable viewers to quickly grasp how well applications or groups of applications are meeting their service level goals.”
Dundas Gauges – http://www.dundas.com/Gallery/Gauge/RS/index.aspx?ImgGroup=Circular
And what a [...]

RMS and Time

I was about to write a post about the RMS going grey when this post came up –
http://blogs.technet.com/smsandmom/archive/2008/08/28/opsmgr-2007-the-health-of-the-root-management-server-is-in-a-gray-not-monitored-state.aspx
OpsMgr 2007: The Health of the Root Management Server is in a Gray “Not Monitored” State
While it describes the same symptoms it is not the same problem. What I was seeing was the RMS health service on a [...]

Help on Exchange Reports in the Guide

One of the annoying things with doing reports in OpsMgr 2007 is getting the target right so you can get data in the report. I posted about this and Kevin Holman has also done a post. I am pleased to see that in the latest MP Guide for Exchange 2003 (released a few days ago), [...]

Complex Monitor

Yesterday I posted about a rule showing how the expressions could be used to build a rule without having to resort to regular expressions. I thought that it was just bit of serendipity and was wondering how complex you could go with this. Just after I posted that I saw another new alert – this time [...]

No More Regular Expressions?

I am working on a project where they want to create a  MP with a lot of rules. So I was looking at regular expressions to see how I could cover a number of events with just one rule. Tricky thing regular expressions. And out of the blue I receiveded an alert that I had [...]

Create Events

Something that is handy for demos and testing systems is to create events in order to check that rules and monitors work and create alerts to order. Usually if you want an event to happen in the event log it never will. As soon as you turn your back thousands happen.
I was confronted with this [...]

Disk Space CPU % Report Part 2

I blogged in June about this nice report that comes with the Virtualisation MP. I received a number of comments and I have seen the post mentioned in the newsgroups. As I said in the previous post it is report that many people want – Product Group take note!
Some info about this report.  I mentioned that [...]

A Brief History of Time

Actually no. But a quick post on how time can throw you in OpsMgr. I recently built a new 2 VM demo system – 1 for AD and the other for OpsMgr (all roles). I fired it up to do some testing on a problem I was working on and I received an alert to [...]

New Blog with Good Start

Jimmy Harper works in Kevin Holman’s team and has started a new blog.
http://blogs.technet.com/jimmyharper/default.aspx
His first post shows a great example of creating a three state timed script using WMI to get the state of a service. He has included lots of screen shots and the text of the script making it easy to cut and paste [...]

Set SPN Warning

You may have seen this alert come up in OpsMgr 2007 SP1 if you used a domain account for the SDK and Configuration service account rather than Local System.
SDK SPN Not Registered

If you click on the View Additional Knowledge it tells you how to fix it.

In the Resolution area of the alert and the Knowledge [...]