Travelling back from a customer I remembered an old saying.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
I was thinking about that in relation to Ops Manager and I have come up with.
Installing OpsMgr keeps you busy for a day.Tuning, [...]
I have downloaded OpsMgr R2 but I have not had time to install it yet. But plenty of others have. So if you are looking for some quick info here are some links.
Robert Smit provides screen shots of the install (looks the same as standard 2007 except for the requirement of ASP.NET Ajax Extensions 1.0 [...]
The other month I wrote about views and how to use them to help focus on particular areas. One of the views that I sometimes want to create is for a single server to get a feel for all the alerts that are being generated by that server. In MOM 2005 it was trivial to create [...]
If you have been reading any other OpsMgr blogs you will know this by now but Beta 1 of OpsMgr SP2 is now available from Connect. No mention of a SCE version.
There are three downloads. A highlights document (Word – 69 pages – if that is the highlights what is the full document going to [...]
I have had an article printed in Server Management Magazine. For those that don’t receive it you can read the article here:
http://www.server-management.co.uk/features/782
It is about getting started with custom reporting in OpsMgr. I go through a couple of examples of creating custom reports – percentage disk space and how to create a report listing all the [...]
I mentioned the problem that a number of people are having with the latest DNS MP in a previous post. Apparently Microsoft are aware of the bug but they can not repro it. Without being able to reproduce it they are having a problem fixing it. However Daniele Grandini contacted me with a fix that [...]
Here are the changes for the MP from the guide. You only get this information after you have downloaded the MP and installed it to get the guide!
The following list includes all of the changes contained in version 6.0.6447.0 of the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Management Pack:
• Updated the GetServerName.vbs discovery script that would previously [...]
The announcements are coming out of the Teched at Barcelona and the word is that the next version of Ops Manager will be R2 and released about Q2 of 2009. Initially there was a lack of detail about whether this would be an SP2 release or R2 release. I had seen both mentioned. So what [...]
