Welcome to MSDN Blogs Sign in | Join | Help

Browse by Tags

All Tags » OpsMgr - Authoring   (RSS)
Sorry, but there are no more tags available to filter with.
Thursday, October 30, 2008 5:29 PM

Sample Linked Report MP

I've seen several posts on various forums where folks are looking for samples showing how to build an MP containing linked reports. The report authoring guide refers to some sample files but, those files don't exist anywhere. I just finished up some linked
Posted by steverac | 2 Comments
Filed under:

Attachment(s): CustomOpsMgrReportsMPforDemo.xml
Thursday, October 23, 2008 6:45 PM

Grouping Windows Computer Objects and Health Service Watcher Objects - updated

In my original post I gave the XML required to associate windows computer objects and health service watcher objects - but I didn't walk through exactly how to set this all up.  I've updated the post with a walkthrough of how to put all the pieces
Posted by steverac | 0 Comments
Filed under:
Friday, October 03, 2008 4:38 PM

Granular Targeting in OpsMgr 2007

Understanding the various targeting options and when to use each is something every OpsMgr admin will face at some point.  To help explain options I wrote an article how targeting works and when to use each option.  The article appears in the
Posted by steverac | 1 Comments
Filed under:
Sunday, June 29, 2008 5:45 AM

The Authoring Console or the Operations Console?

Which tool is best to use for authoring? The answer 'it depends' is very applicable here. One key difference that might help you decide - when authoring is done in the Operations Console all changes that are made get applied as they are made - which can
Posted by steverac | 2 Comments
Filed under:
Sunday, June 22, 2008 5:44 PM

Relationships and Grouping

In a recent blog post ( http://blogs.technet.com/kevinholman/archive/2008/02/01/configuring-notifications-to-include-specific-alerts-from-specific-groups-and-classes.aspx ) Kevin Holman discusses how to configure notification subscriptions to hone in
Posted by steverac | 1 Comments
Filed under:
Monday, June 09, 2008 6:21 PM

Understanding relationships in OpsMgr 2007

Ever wonder how objects are related to each other in OpsMgr? Certainly would be helpful when targeting to understand which objects relate to Windows Computer, which objects relate to the Computer Role object, etc. Much of the time it's intuitive how items
Posted by steverac | 1 Comments
Filed under:
Monday, May 12, 2008 6:53 AM

OpsMgr Authoring Console has released!

We've been working with the release candidate for a while - the official release has recently been posted - download from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=6C8911C3-C495-4A03-96DF-9731C37AA6D7&displaylang=en I've also been working
Posted by steverac | 0 Comments
Filed under:
Monday, April 28, 2008 3:31 AM

Rules/Monitors and Event Descriptions in OpsMgr

It is beneficial at times to be able to scan for text in an event description that might be actionable or an indicator of a problem. It was very straight forward in MOM 2005 to create a rule to make this happen. It is equally straghtforward in OpsMgr.
Posted by steverac | 0 Comments
Filed under:
Monday, February 18, 2008 4:53 PM

Performance Data and Views in OpsMgr 2007

Suppose you want to create a view to look at performance data that has been collected in OpsMgr. You go to create the view and are prompted for a performance counter name. You copy and paste the performance counter name just as it appears in performance
Posted by steverac | 1 Comments
Filed under:
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
Posted by steverac | 1 Comments
Filed under:
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
Posted by steverac | 0 Comments
Filed under:
 
Page view tracker