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OpsMgr Management pack APC ISX Central Integration Management Pack
This week I had to implement an APC management pack at a customer site and I will explain how to get it working. This customer is using APC to monitor and configure his Uninterruptible power supply (UPS...
OpsMgr : two new Novell Linux Management packs
Hi,   Novell just announced two new additions to the Novell Linux Management Pack or NLMP family: SLES 11 and RHEL 5.x. The Novell Linux Management Packs for OpsMgr expands the monitoring capabilities...
OpsMgr bug : console crashing when creating an override on cluster resource group monitor
Be aware that there is a bug when you want to create an override on the resource group rollup monitor to change the maintenance mode behavior! Let’s see: In my example I have one cluster with 2 cluster...
OpsMgr Webconsole Runtime error “Server Error in ‘/’ Application”
Just a little reminder that if you install the OpsMgr web console after the UI console has already been installed you will need to Copy the following files from the %Program Files%\System Center Operations...
New management packs for OpsMgr in October
Microsoft is working very hard these days and is has released a whole bunch of updated and new management packs this month. Here is an overview: Server 2008 Network Load Balancing 10/22/2009 (6.0.6726...
Operations Manager 2007 R2 Authoring Resource Kit
Microsoft just released the OpsMgr 2007 R2 Resource kit. You can download it here http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=9104af8b-ff87-45a1-81cd-b73e6f6b51f0&displaylang=en  ...
Video Interview: Implementing SCOM in a large Belgium Hospital by Alexandre Verkinderen
Alexandre Verkinderen, System Center Operations Manager MVP, talks about the monitoring solution he implemented at AZ Sint Maarten, a large Belgium Hospital. Together with Sigurd Corluy, System Engineer...
New Connect site for the OM Community
Hello OM Community, Today we launched a new connect portal that will allow YOU to provide feedback to the OM team as well as participate in surveys that have been traditionally reserved for our TAP programs...
Unique Opsmgr 2007 training event (Belgium) : Management Pack Development Course
Hi all, I am very proud to be able to announce that we will be able to host a Unique Opsmgr 2007 training event in Belgium. Is the average training not meeting the depth of technical content you need?...
Windows Server Operating System Management Pack for Operations Manager 2007
Microsoft just released an update for the windows server mp. They now support Windows 2008 R2 ! Another nice thing is that finaly you can also display the logical disk size in MB’s! It was so damn stupid...
Windows Key Management Service MP for Operations Manager 2007
Microsoft just released a new KMS mp for opmsgr 2007. Be carefull when importing it via the catalog with the OpsMgr 2007 R2 console. Before importing the mp you will need to uninstall any previous version...
Proliant Management pack RealtimeMonitors_SNMP.FailedComponent Auto Server Recovery 0
Just imported the HP Proliant management pack for SCOM 2007 and hade a lot of servers in warning state even if nothing was wrong in the Insight homepage. So I opened the healthexplorer and found RealtimeMonitors_SNMP...
Live maps V4 for OpsMgr 2007 R2 is available
Savision has just released a major now version of Live Maps designed specifically for System Center Operations Manager R2! You can download it here http://savision.com/download Besides some issues fixes...
Dell 4.0 hardware MP is released for Opsmgr 2007 SP1 and R2
Early this week Dell released a major update to their OpsMgr management pack with their 4.0 version. I strongly encourage you to check out this MP as there are some significant improvements that are worth...
SCUG.BE session on Service Manager
Service Manager: From Re-active to Pro-active In this session Maarten Goet, SCOM MVP and participant in the TAP-program for Service Manager, is going to show us what the possibilities are of Service Manager...
Known issues with the Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 Management Pack for Systems Center Operations Manager 2007
Microsoft just published a known issue with the Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 Management Pack for Systems Center Operations Manager 2007. We’ve seen a couple issues with the Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009...
Opsmgr Performance problems with healthservice on agents
On some occasions the scom agent can cause a lot of performance issues on the servers. Here I will describe some steps I take when I have performance problems and in most of the cases it works for me....
Collect Processor time % of the HealthService.exe of your agents
If you have performance problems on your agents it’s probably the healthservice.exe that’s taking a lot of processor time %. At the moment only the processor time of the healthservice of the...
Interview with Nigel Cain at Techdays 2009 in Antwerp on SCSM
At Techdays 2009 in Antwerp we interviewed Nigel Cain ( Program Manager - Operations and Service Management group) and asked him some questions on System Center Service Manager: Have fun, Scug.be Team
Opsmgr DB Create wizard System.InvalidOperationException
Today I wanted to install my OperationsmanagerDB on my SQL cluster 2005 SP2 actif-passive. So I started the DBCreatewizard.exe and I got a very strange error mentioning something about Severity: Error...
Upgrading Opsmgr 2007 R2 RC consoles to Opsmgr 2007 R2 RTM
When you want to start upgrading your consoles from the opmsgr 2007 R2 RC version to the Opsmgr 2007 R2 RTM version be carefull with: third party extensions like the Savision live maps for example. You...
Opsmgr on Social Forum!
We just moved from the old news servers to the new social forum platform! So start asking your questions, issues, share your knowledge etc on the new platform and make it as good as the old NNTP groups...
Opsmgr Data Warehouse failed to enumerate database components to be deployed
Today I ran into this issue: Data Warehouse failed to enumerate database components to be deployed. Failed to enumerate Data Warehouse components for deployment. The operation will be retried. Exception...
Third Edition of Microsoft Community Day !!
Community Day is back again, are you ready for our Third Edition of Microsoft Community Day? Eleven Microsoft User Groups combine their efforts to organize this unique networking and knowledge sharing...
Insight Control suite for Microsoft System Center
Insight Control suite for Microsoft System Center Insight Control suite for Microsoft System Center (ICE-SC) is the first extensive solution that provides seamless integration of the unique ProLiant and...
Visio add-in for System Center Operations Manager
Microsoft just released a new Visio add-in for System Center Operations Manager! Go get it on the Connect Site ! The Visio Add-in for System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 combines the strengths of...
IIS 7 management pack hotfix
As mentioned on the MOM team blog there was a problem with the IIS 7 Managemenent pack . After importing the Windows Server 2008 Internet Information Services 7.0 management pack, the Health Service will...
Operations Manager 2007 R2 Release Candidate available !
Yesterday, Microsoft released the OpsMgr R2 RC on their connect website. It's version 6.1.7043.0 and is 1.277,26 MB in size ! As a separate download, you can also get the R2 RC documentation set. The...
Reporting Deployment and Usage Troubleshooting
Finally!! One guide with the most common reporting issues! Thank you Microsoft! "There are several common configuration and usage issues that can cause Operations Manager Reporting errors. This document...
Biwug & Scug Session: Using System Center Operations Manager to monitor your SharePoint environment
Title: Using System Center Operations Manager to monitor your SharePoint environment. System Center Operations Manager 2007 is THE end to end Monitoring Solution. In this session we will discuss what you...
Windows Server Cluster Management Pack for Operations Manager 2007
Overview The Windows Server Failover Cluster Management Pack provides both proactive and reactive monitoring of your Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008 cluster deployments. It monitors Cluster...
RMS grayed out and server discovery failed
After I installed my RMS and OpsmgrDB on two different servers my root management server went gray and every 10 minutes or so I receive an alert stating the RMS is unavailable. Usually these close within...
System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 Management Pack for Opsmgr 2007
Finally the SCVMM MP for Opsmgr 2007 with REPORTS is released!! Brief Description The System Center Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) 2008 Management Pack for System Center Operations Manager 2007 monitors...
Opsmgr Service Level Dashboard for Exchange 2007
It is possible to create custom reports for Exchange 2007 using the Service Level Dashboard Solution Accelerator and the Exchange 2007 Management Pack. The Opsmgr Team made a nice guide on how to make...
Native DPM 2007 managment pack for opsmgr
Microsoft released today the new native DPM 2007 management pack for Opmsgr.   Overview Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 (DPM) is a server software application that enables data...
MVP Award: System Center Operations Manager
I'm very proud to announce that Microsoft has awarded me with the MVP title "System Center Operations Manager" !! We now have 2 MVP's in the user group! https://mvp.support.microsoft...
The SQL Server Service Broker for the current Opsmgr database is not enabled
Yesterday I came accros this error: Saying that the SQL server Service Broker or database mirroring endpoint is disabled or not configured. If you don’t know what the SQL server service broker exactly...
Opsmgr 2007 R2 Beta1 Released!
Just got an email from Microsoft to announce that the Opsmgr 2007 R2 Beta available is on the connect site. Will post testing results soon!   The System Center Operations Manager team is excited to...
Network aware service management with EMC Smart and Opsmgr
Stefan Stranger found an interesting video on network aware service management with the integration solution of emc smart and opsmgr.   After this video I was looking for some more information and...
Day 2 of teched 2008 Barcelona
At day 2 one of the sessions I followed covered the future of opsmgr. They announced that at the end of this month the beta of Opsmgr R2 will be available, RC is for Q1 of 2009 and RTM in Q2 2009. For...
First day at teched Barcelona
I'm now at teched Barcelona and my first impressions? WOOOOW! Everything is very well organized, free wifi, everything is taken care off you even get free metro tickets! I arrived Sunday morning and...
Define a Health Criteria for your web application Monitor Part III
W're almost at the end! :-) Only 3 steps left. First we have to define a healt criteria for our web appliction and after that we can create our distributed appliction that will drive ou service level...
Configuring the Service Level Dashboard Part V
After you create your monitors and distributed applications, you must take some additional steps to configure the Service Level Dashboard group and service level goal properties. Discovery finds all the...
Creating the Distributed Application Models to Drive the Service Level Dashboard Part IV
The distributed application model interface provides a flexible way to customize the Service Level Dashboard display to your needs. The Service Level Dashboard accepts a simple distributed application...
Service Level Dashboard Part VI
Ok, so we finally have our service level dashboard. Let's see some reports service level dashboard Service level dashboard by application: " src="http://scug.be/cfs-file.ashx/__key/CommunityServer...
Add a recording to an existing Web Application object Part II
First you will have to create a web application monitor. See my previous post on how to create a web application monitor in opsmgr.   To add a recording to an existing Web Application object 1. Open...
Create a Web Application Monitor in opsmgr Part I
At the moment I'm testing web application monitoring, service level dashboard, etc. So the upcoming posts will handle on how to set up a web application monitoring, how to configure the service level...
Security Auditing & ACS Optimization Session recording
On September 16th we got a session on Security Auditing & ACS Optimization by Jeremiah Beckett from Securevantage . Jeremiah has recorded the session for us so that you can watch it. It’s condensed...
Changing the ACS DataRetention Period for Opsmgr
Changing the Audit Collection Service DataRetention Period (based on the info found on the technet site) Operations Manager grooms, or removes, data from its various databases at regular configurable intervals...
Operations Manager/SSAS and PerformancePoint Scorecards
Daniel Savage posted on the team blog that the performancePoint team released a sample solution that shows how to build cubes from the Operations Manager DW and then build balanced IT scorecards using...
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