Category Archives: MOM 2005
To R2 or not to R2?
That is indeed the question. This was something that I was concerned about but with the release of the new Exchange 2007 MP it is confirmed – this is an R2 only MP. This is great if you are on R2 but as R2 is a Software Assurance release there will be organisations that bought …
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 …
Disk Space CPU % Report Table
One 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 …
The Blog List
A while back I started a page at the side of my blog with a list of all the MOM and SCOM bloggers. https://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 …
Reporting Database
While looking at the database sizes in the new Operations Manager 2007 Performance and Scalability Guide it struck me how large the reporting database could become. More so as I am working with a client on MOM 2005 at the moment to try and tame the reporting database which is up to 500 GB. This …
Yet Another MOM 2005 Disk Space Script
A client wanted to check on disk space based on whether it was a local disk, in which case 15%, or a SAN attached disk, in which case they wanted warnings at 10GB. This made sense as the large disks attached to the SAN could have 100s of GBs free and still alert based on …
Additional Community MPs
I have come across some more MPs. Raphael Burri (Zurich, Switzerland) monitors Swisscom’s MS-OS based installations including IPTV product Bluewin TV which is using Microsoft’s Mediaroom solution – hence the media services MP. http://rburri.wordpress.com/management-packs/ Microsoft – Active DirectoryOpsMgr ‘07Custom AD topology discovery MPenable multi forest discoveryJan, 15 2008 Microsoft – Windows Media Services 9OpsMgr ‘07Windows …
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics."
A tale of caution. I was called back into a customer where I had installed MOM 2005 and the problem was that there were “too many alerts” but no-one could say how many alerts were too many. There was a figure being bandied about saying that 1,000 service desks tickets were being generated by MOM …
MP Assumptions
You would think that by now the major management packs from Microsoft would be settled, especially as many have them have been through a few updates over 6 years. It would be an assumption that many people installing MOM or SCOM for the first time would make – especially based on the marketing. But a …
Windows 2008 Support Plans
On the 7th I posted that I would like to see what is going to be supported for MOM 2005 and SCOM 2007 with Windows 2008 and SQL 2008. Well Satya (aka Deployment Man from the MOM Product Team) has done a post about Windows 2008. http://blogs.technet.com/momteam/archive/2008/01/09/support-plans-for-opsmgr-2007-sce-and-mom-2005-running-on-windows-server-2008.aspx Basically don’t bother with MOM 2005 on 2008 …
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