BWren's Management Space

Operations Manager management packs and other automation technologies

Updated PowerShell Post

I did a post bacin February 2008 on running a PowerShell script from a management pack.  This...

Author: Brian Wren Date: 02/01/2010

New Blog

Now that I’ve changed positions to own knowledge for management pack authoring,  a blog more...

Author: Brian Wren Date: 01/29/2010

Management Pack Authoring Guide v2

After 13 years of consulting, I joined the UA team in Redmond last August as a technical writer...

Author: Brian Wren Date: 01/11/2010

MP Author Resource Kit

I realize I haven’t posted anything in awhile – mainly due to my recent change of job within...

Author: Brian Wren Date: 10/21/2009

Sample Application for SP1

Attached to this post is a version of my sample application for Operations Manager SP1. This has the...

Author: Brian Wren Date: 06/05/2009

PowerShell Scripts in a Management Pack Part 2

In a previous blog post, I explained how to run PowerShell scripts from a management pack. I...

Author: Brian Wren Date: 06/05/2009

Sample Application Dependencies

I’ve had a couple of people tell me that the sample application I used for my MMS presentations...

Author: Brian Wren Date: 05/20/2009

R2 Authoring Console

I’ve been getting this question quite a bit, so I thought I’d give a quick answer to it.  The...

Author: Brian Wren Date: 05/07/2009

MMS 2009

A bit wiped out after delivering four consecutive sessions on management pack authoring.  I'm...

Author: Brian Wren Date: 04/28/2009

SNMP Queries

I recently help someone out getting a monitor working that uses the System.SnmpQueryProvider module...

Author: Brian Wren Date: 01/21/2009

Programmatically Creating Groups

Well, it looks from my last post that I took about a eight month hiatus from the blog. ...

Author: Brian Wren Date: 11/18/2008

One more MMS Follow Up

As I ran out of time in the MMS session, I quickly showed a script that listed all performance...

Author: Brian Wren Date: 05/07/2008

Monitoring Object Properties

There has been some question about how to get properties for monitoring objects with Command Shell....

Author: Brian Wren Date: 05/03/2008

Setting Maintenance Mode from an Agent

My apologies that I forgot to talk about this in my MMS session earlier today. I did mention it to a...

Author: Brian Wren Date: 05/01/2008

MMS Command Shell Presentation

As promised, here are all the samples that I am showing in my MMS session on Command Shell. There...

Author: Brian Wren Date: 03/11/2008

Update to the Maintenance Mode Sample MP

Andrzej Lipka, a fellow consultant in Poland, took my maintenance mode sample MP and added some...

Author: Brian Wren Date: 03/10/2008

Using Wildcards with the Windows Service Template

The Windows Service template in the Operations Console lets you discover and monitor a Windows...

Author: Brian Wren Date: 03/08/2008

Great Minds Think Alike

I just got done with my previous post on setting maintenance mode for a group of objects, and I...

Author: Brian Wren Date: 03/04/2008

Scheduling Groups of Objects for Maintenance Mode

I was given a challenge recently to come up with a solution for an organization that wanted to...

Author: Brian Wren Date: 02/28/2008

Command Shell Presentation at MMS 2008

I will be doing a presentation at the upcoming MMS 2008 titled Administrative Scenarios using the...

Author: Brian Wren Date: 02/25/2008

Management Pack Authoring Guide (Told you)

Just a few days ago, I mentioned that the new Operations Manager 2007 Management Pack Authoring...

Author: Brian Wren Date: 02/24/2008

Running PowerShell Scripts from a Management Pack - Part 1

Considering all my work with OpsMgr management packs and my infatuation with PowerShell, it's...

Author: Brian Wren Date: 02/20/2008

Where did I get the documentation?

I've been asked a few times where I got all the information behind the different management pack...

Author: Brian Wren Date: 02/17/2008

Dynamically populating component groups in Operations Manager 2007 Distributed Applications

This is one I've been asked about several times and am finally getting around to blogging the...

Author: Brian Wren Date: 01/26/2008

Manually Resetting a Monitor

You may have noticed that all monitors in OpsMgr 2007 have an option called Reset Health. The...

Author: Brian Wren Date: 08/22/2007

Exporting Management Packs

Obviously, /a great way to learn how to author a management pack is to look at existing ones. The...

Author: Brian Wren Date: 08/22/2007

Targeting Rules and Monitors

The concept of what target to use for a particular rule or monitor in OpsMgr 2007 seems to be one...

Author: Brian Wren Date: 08/22/2007

WMI Events in OpsMgr 2007

I've already explained how to work with WMI events in MOM 2005 in an article in TechNet Magazine....

Author: Brian Wren Date: 08/22/2007