Jimmy Harper's Operations Manager Blog
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A customer of mine found that they had numerous SCOM Agents which were multi-homed to defunct...
Date: 08/13/2016
My customer has a lot of manually installed SCOM Agents that have not yet been approved in the...
Date: 12/15/2015
A customer of mine monitors some agents that only have 1gb of storage, so disk space must be...
Date: 09/02/2015
While helping a customer migrate from SCOM 2007 to SCOM 2012 R2, we noticed a large reduction in...
Date: 04/15/2015
A customer asked me to put together a SCOM data warehouse report that would list Agents from all...
Date: 04/09/2015
A customer of mine is seeing some random issues with SCOM not being able to resolve Exchange...
Date: 02/03/2015
Whenever I’m installing SCOM 2012, it takes me a little extra time to get the pre-reqs installed for...
Date: 10/30/2014
Today a customer asked me how to configure SCOM to generate Alerts for SQL Deadlocks. Looking in the...
Date: 10/28/2014
Here is a Management Pack that I wrote for a customer a while back. The requirement was to take the...
Date: 08/29/2014
We recently released updated versions of several Management Packs, including the Windows Server OS...
Date: 08/26/2014
A customer of mine is migrating from SCOM 2007 to a new SCOM 2012 installation and would like to...
Date: 12/12/2013
I haven’t blogged in a while, so need to make sure this thing is still on :) I’ll start with...
Date: 12/12/2013
Here are a couple of ACS reports to show the event count by User, Forwarder, and Event ID. Just...
Date: 04/18/2013
CU6 for OpsMgr 2007 R2 is now available at...
Date: 05/15/2012
We have just released and updated version of the Active Directory Management Pack (version...
Date: 03/30/2012
There are a lot of great blogs out there that discuss creating various types of groups (Kevin Holman...
Date: 03/20/2012
I’ve seen this issue a couple of times now…an OpsMgr 2007 R2 Agent installation fails with...
Date: 02/16/2012
In a previous blog post, I provided an “Addendum” MP to fix some Rules that do not work...
Date: 01/16/2012
Here’s a simple custom report that shows the fragmentation of each logical disk based on the...
Date: 08/25/2011
I regularly see customers getting a lot of alerts indicating that workflows have failed to...
Date: 07/29/2011
The Operations Manager Product Team recently released an Administration Resource Kit for...
Date: 07/14/2011
I recently put together an “Unhealthy Monitors” report for an OpsMgr Administrator to...
Date: 05/06/2011
NOTE: This report uses the Operations Database instead of the Data Warehouse….in order for it...
Date: 11/08/2010
Very simple report which shows the number of Alerts generated in each hour of a given...
Date: 11/03/2010
Here’s a little report that I put together to get a look at what is going on in the ACS...
Date: 11/02/2010
The Exchange 2007 Management Pack for MOM 2005 included a Mailbox Count report which was not...
Date: 10/20/2010
Here’s a quick little report to show the number of objects in each group. You have the option...
Date: 10/15/2010
The Exchange 2003 Management Pack for MOM 2005 contains a few reports that are not included in the...
Date: 09/17/2010
OpsMgr Health Explorer allows you to look at the State of all Monitors for a specific object. But,...
Date: 09/01/2010
I recently found that many Event Log rules in the Active Directory Management Pack for...
Date: 08/27/2010
A recent Security Update for Word 2007 is breaking the ability to edit Company Knowledge in...
Date: 08/27/2010
UPDATE: Some of these commands have been changed for OpsMgr 2012, so I’ve created...
Date: 07/23/2010
Just realized that I haven’t blogged on this yet. By default, the “Calling...
Date: 06/11/2010
Here are the reports and queries that I used in the demos of my “Writing Basic Custom Reports for...
Date: 04/22/2010
In the Active Directory Management Pack, there is a Rule named “A journal wrap error has occurred on...
Date: 01/21/2010
Here are some ACS reports that I’ve written for various customers recently. If you have ACS...
Date: 12/09/2009
The SQL Server Management Pack has a rule, targeted at SQL 2000/2005/2008 DB Engine named “DBCC...
Date: 10/01/2009
If you need to use any non-string data type in the criteria for custom Rules and Monitors, you’ll...
Date: 10/01/2009
Here’s one of many good uses of the new Overrides view in OpsMgr 2007 R2. I want to review...
Date: 09/26/2009
Are you using the new Exchange 2007 Management Pack? Are you configuring the CAS and/or Mailflow...
Date: 09/26/2009
I recently ran into an interesting issue with a customer. A Windows 2000 Agent (running OpsMgr...
Date: 08/25/2009
When you create a Service Monitor in OpsMgr 2007, we get an alert / state change when the service is...
Date: 08/11/2009
This issue is described in the SQL Server Management Pack Guide, but I wanted to blog it since I’ve...
Date: 07/02/2009
I ran into an issue recently where some SQL Databases were not showing any properties in OpsMgr,...
Date: 06/11/2009
The SQL Server Management Pack includes an option to discover and monitor SQL Server Agent Jobs for...
Date: 06/04/2009
The Active Directory Management Pack (ADMP) – version 6.0.6452.0 – contains a monitor named “AD...
Date: 05/20/2009
The latest version of the Active Directory Management Pack (ADMP) – version 6.0.6452.0 – contains...
Date: 05/20/2009
I'll soon be putting together some AEM (Agentless Exception Monitoring) reports, so I figured I'd...
Date: 02/20/2009
I recently ran into the following issue: The SQL Server Management Pack has several monitors to...
Date: 02/20/2009
A customer recently showed me that the built-in ACS report...
Date: 02/15/2009