Rod Trent MVP, myITforum'er : OpsMgr 2007

Manage your IT Infrastructure : OpsMgr Custom Reporting Tips & Tricks

Rod Trent at myITforum.com — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 16:08:18 GMT

Lately I’ve been busy creating some OpsMgr Custom Reports for customers and wanted to share some tips & tricks for creating custom OpsMgr Reports. Hope you can use them in your own custom OpsMgr Reports. Stefan Stranger's Weblog - Manage...(read more)

snowland.se OpsMgr Monitor DemoService

Rod Trent at myITforum.com — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 11:49:21 GMT

Wrote this little PHP-application for demostrating webmonitors in System Center Operations Manager 2007. It will probably work for any monitoring solution that catches http errorcodes or textstrings on a page: snowland.se DemoService : 200 OK Read...(read more)

New way to find OpsMgr MPs…Microsoft PinPoint…

Rod Trent at myITforum.com — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:09:19 GMT

Here’s the new page for finding OpsMgr Management Packs: http://pinpoint.microsoft.com/en-US/category.aspx?catid=200073&src=1 Bookmark it, because its tough to find. Read More......(read more)

Microsoft’s Opalis Acquisition FAQ

Rod Trent at myITforum.com — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 14:25:22 GMT

Acquisition FAQs 1. What has been announced regarding Opalis? Microsoft has acquired Opalis, a leading provider of next-generation IT process automation software. Financial terms won’t be disclosed. Opalis will become a wholly owned subsidiary...(read more)

Updated 10-9-2009: SC ConfigMgr 2007 SP2 MP for OpsMgr 2007 R2

Rod Trent at myITforum.com — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 20:18:03 GMT

The Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 SP2 (ConfigMgr) Management Pack for System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 helps administrators manage and administer Configuration Manager 2007 servers. Download details: SC ConfigMgr 2007...(read more)

NOVELL: Downloads - Novell Linux Management Pack for System Center Operations Manager

Rod Trent at myITforum.com — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 23:38:51 GMT

Novell ® Linux* Management Pack for Microsoft* System Center Operations Manager expands the monitoring capabilities of Operations Manager in enterprise environments by enabling monitoring of key Linux services. A consolidated operations console...(read more)

PowerShell script to check if an OpsMgr Agent was installed

Rod Trent at myITforum.com — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 22:09:47 GMT

PowerShell script to check if an OpsMgr Agent was installed: Stefan Stranger's Weblog - Manage your IT Infrastructure : Have these servers an OpsMgr agent installed? Read More......(read more)

Quest Management Xtensions

Rod Trent at myITforum.com — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:10:20 GMT

QMX Monitoring for Operations Manager and MOM Monitor Extensions Read More......(read more)

Kevin Holman's OpsMgr Blog : Tuning tip – turning off some over-collection of events

Rod Trent at myITforum.com — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:28:31 GMT

We often think of tuning OpsMgr by way of tuning “Alert Noise”…. by disabling rules that generate alerts that we don't care about, or modifying thresholds on monitors to make the alert more actionable for our specific environment. However Read...(read more)

Kevin Holman's OpsMgr Blog : Writing monitors to target Logical or Physical Disks

Rod Trent at myITforum.com — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:03:08 GMT

This is something a LOT of people make mistakes on – so I wanted to write a post on the correct way to do this properly, using a very common target as an example. When we write a monitor for something like “Processor\% Processor Time\_Total” and...(read more)

How-To: Configure OpsMgr R2 Service Level Tracking on Live Maps views

Rod Trent at myITforum.com — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:28:24 GMT

In this article I will give a step-by-step instruction how to configure Service Level Tracking on a Live Maps view and show the results using the Service Level Tracking report in OpsMgr and the Service Level Dashboard in SharePoint. How-To: Configure...(read more)

Kevin Holman's OpsMgr Blog : 29106 event on RMS – Index was out of range. Wait. What?

Rod Trent at myITforum.com — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:04:30 GMT

Was working with a customer on this one – figured it might help others. Kevin Holman's OpsMgr Blog : 29106 event on RMS – Index was out of range. Wait. What? Read More......(read more)

Download details: Operations Manager 2007 R2 Documentation

Rod Trent at myITforum.com — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:35:04 GMT

The Operations Manager 2007 R2 technical documentation helps you plan, deploy, operate, and maintain Operations Manager 2007 R2. For information about the specific guides available in the library, see http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/opsmgr/bb498235...(read more)

Download details: Update Rollup for Operations Manager 2007 Service Pack 1 (KB971541)

Rod Trent at myITforum.com — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:34:15 GMT

The Update Rollup for Operations Manager 2007 Service Pack 1 (SP1) combines previous hotfix releases for SP1 with additional fixes and support of SP1 roles on Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. This update also provides database role and SQL...(read more)

Version Control in System Center Operations Manager 2007 | Cupfighter.net

Rod Trent at myITforum.com — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:18:47 GMT

The current version of System Center Operations Manager 2007 doesn’t use version control for management packs. If you manage complex environments and use lot of custom monitoring, it would be nice to see when there is something changed and even...(read more)

Xian Wings 2010 coming from Jalasoft

Rod Trent at myITforum.com — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:22:10 GMT

Jalasoft informed a close network of contacts today that they are going to announce the release of Xian Wings 2010. Wings 2010 will be part of the Xian suite and will make it possible for network and server administrators to gain better control...(read more)

MMS 2010 Content Survey is live…

Rod Trent at myITforum.com — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 19:10:05 GMT

As we start putting the plans for the Microsoft Management Summit 2010 (MMS 2010) together, we'd like to ensure that the event matches your needs and requirements. Our aim is to provide you with the information and resources you need to manage your...(read more)

Updated: Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 SP2 Management Pack for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 - myITforum.com

Rod Trent at myITforum.com — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:01:06 GMT

10/28/2009 – Version 6.0.6000.2 – Added support for monitoring Configuration Manager 2007 SP2 in a 64-bit environment with Operations Manager 2007 R2 or Operations Manager 2007 SP1 hotfix (KB971541). Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager...(read more)

Monitoring Windows 7 with Operations Manager

Rod Trent at myITforum.com — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:03:26 GMT

The Windows Client Monitoring Management Pack is built to detects, diagnose, and resolve hardware and software problems pertaining to Client 2000, XP, and Vista operating systems. Information and analysis on the issues that the system detected...(read more)

Live Maps V4.1 for SCOM R2 Released

Rod Trent at myITforum.com — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:56:55 GMT

We are proud to announce the release of Live Maps 4.1 for Operations Manager R2 . This update contains, besides some fixes and performance improvements, a number of new features that have been added based on customer feedback. Some of the new features...(read more)