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January 2008 - Posts

Monday, January 07, 2008 7:46 AM

A few questions of interest - Question 8

1. Is it possible to create notifications on a rule by rule basis? If so, how? If not, why not? Yes, this is possible but not as you might expect. There is no exact method for configuring notifications on specific rules/monitors and not others in the
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Monday, January 07, 2008 7:38 AM

A few opsmgr questions of interest - Question 7

1. How does reindexing work in opsmgr? Is it a SQL job? Which one? Is it a rule in the SQL management pack? Which one? Document how all the built in maintenance works in the operational and reporting database and why we don’t need and shouldn’t setup
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Monday, January 07, 2008 7:36 AM

A few opsmgr questions of interest - Question 6

1. Is it possible to see the agent and all of the rules/monitors that are applied to them? The SCOM resource kit was recently released and contains several helpful tools. One of them is the effective configuration viewer. This utility allows administrators
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Sunday, January 06, 2008 10:26 PM

A few opsmgr questions of interest - Question 5

1. Is it possible to create a view and export it for use elsewhere? How would we export from lab and reuse in production? Yes, this is possible though it isn’t as straight forward as it might seem. Let’s walk through the process. If you want to create
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Sunday, January 06, 2008 9:39 PM

A few opsmgr questions of interest - Question 3

1. Is “my workspace” tied to a particular machine or account? When you customize “My Workspace” in the console – then rebuild your machine – do these customizations follow your login when you use another computer or reinstall the console…. i.e. are they
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Sunday, January 06, 2008 9:39 PM

A few opsmgr questions of interest - Question 4

1. Is it possible to write a rule/monitor that targets all objects, a single object and all objects except one? If so, how would it be done? Include examples of how to target a rule to all SQL instances. Then how to target a single SQL instance. Then
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Sunday, January 06, 2008 9:38 PM

A few opsmgr questions of interest - Question 2

1. How can an agent be placed in maintenance mode from the command line? What are the other options for placing an agent or group of agents in maintenance mode? Agents can be placed in maintenance mode from the command line in one of two ways – using
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Sunday, January 06, 2008 9:08 PM

A few opsmgr questions of interest - Question 1

A few questions have come up of late that I thought might be of interest so am reposting, along with the answers, here. 1. Is it possible to configure a rule/monitor such that no override can be applied for a period of time, regardless of the permissions
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Thursday, January 03, 2008 5:30 PM

What's new/interesting in SCOM 2007?

Happy new year to all! A few things I thought might be of interest! Maintenance mode Questions relating to maintenance mode in SCOM 2007 have come up frequently. There are two common questions. First, how is maintenance mode different in SCOM? Second,
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