Category Archives: Management Packs

The requirement was to prevent specific servers from being monitored by the SQL Server management pack. These were development servers where the DBAs weren’t concerned in what was going on in terms of SQL Server. Given there was a requirement … Continue reading →

Version 6.0.6441.0 of SQL Server Management pack, which includes support for monitoring SQL Server 2008 databases, was released to Microsoft’s Management Pack catalog October 29th of this year. It has since been discovered that the discovery scripts fail to discover … Continue reading →

In June 2007, we posted OpsMgr by Example: Configuring Baselines (http://ops-mgr.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!3D3B8489FCAA9B51!183.entry), which discussed working with the baselines in the Exchange 2003 management pack for OpsMgr 2007. Microsoft released the most recent update to the Exchange 2003 management pack 8/21/08, available … Continue reading →

In April 2008, Microsoft made available to selected testers (including the MOM MVPs) a pre-release version of the Windows 2008 Base OS and IIS  management packs (MPs) for OpsMgr 2007. Having these MPs is important since without a MP designed … Continue reading →

Will Kaiser left a message that he was looking for authoring resources. He said: I’ve designed and implemented 3 different OpsMgr environments and will soon be starting my 4th.  I’m looking to dig further into custom authoring via the authoring … Continue reading →

We were asked: "When you create overrides in a custom management pack, how could you view the content in that management pack? … When I create an override I do not see the configuration in the console, only in the … Continue reading →

If you’re wondering how be notified if you have an AD Operations Master role change, we discovered an undocumented event id that is logged. And of course, if it is logged, MOM can watch for it!   Event 1458 in … Continue reading →

Have you ever installed a management pack and then decided you wanted to remove it? Removal of management packs is a more complicated process than adding them; there is no completely clean process to remove a management pack, although we … Continue reading →

If you have installed the Windows Base OS Desktop MP, you may have noticed some interesting results … like your Windows 2003 systems are being monitored using the rules from the Desktop MP. This is because the Microsoft Windows XP … Continue reading →