http://www.systemcenterusergroup.org/blogs/administrator/archive/2008/06/18/first-meeting-of-the-system-center-virtual-user-group-is-6-26-time-and-registration-info.aspx
The first meeting of the System Center Virtual Users Group is on the calendar, and we have some first rate speakers ready to share their knowledge. Not surprisingly, our theme is Operations Manager 2007 this month, but we have some of the foremost experts prepared to share some info you're not likely to see anywhere else. Thanks to the folks at our event sponsor, SecureVantage.
Meeting and Registration Details
Date: June 26th
Time: 12:00 p.m. Central Standard Time (6pm GMT)
Agenda
- 12:00PM-12:10PM: Introduction
- 12:10PM-12:40PM: Anders Bengtsson (OpsMgr MVP) - Cross-PLatform Monitoring in Operations Manager 2007 SP2.
- 12:40PM-1:10PM: Ryan Brennan (SecureVantage) - ACS Best Practices & Configuration Tips
- 1:10PM-1:40PM: Marco Shaw (Powershell MVP) - PowerShell within System Center Operations Manager 2007
- 1.40PM-1:50PM: Closing
Event Registration
To sign up for this event, register at the following URL: https://www.clicktoattend.com/invitation.aspx?code=129503
Speaker Profiles
Anders Bengtsson (OpsMgr MVP) - Anders is a Microsoft MVP for System Center Operations Manager 2007, consultant and frequent contributor to the Operations Manager community. Anders can be reached via his management blog at http://www.contoso.se.
Ryan Brennan (SecureVantage) - Ryan is responsible for the overall technical vision and direction for Secure Vantage Technologies. Ryan brings more than twelve years of solid technology and management experience. Before joining Secure Vantage Technologies he founded Enigma Technology Solutions a consulting firm focused on Microsoft Systems Management. Ryan has worked for multiple Fortune 1000 Companies and has experience in System Management, IT & Security Operations, Software Development, Quality Assurance, Systems Administration and Project Management with focus on the industries: banking, energy, technology, software, healthcare. Ryan holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from The University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Marco Shaw (Powershell MVP) - Marco is a PowerShell MVP, PowerGadgets MVP, author and founder of the PowerShell Virtual User Group. Marco can be reached through his GET-POWERSHELL blog at http://marcoshaw.blogspot.com/
Sponsors
Some information that was obtained from Brian Wren's MMS Cmdshell presentation. http://blogs.technet.com/brianwren/archive/2008/03/11/mms-command-shell-presentation.aspx
When using cmdlets that fetch data in operations Manager 2007 like get-alert, get-event, get-override and many others, use the -criteria option to filter your data. When the -criteria option is used the filter or comparison will be done at the server end and the results will be sent to your cmdshell, thus reducing the amount of processing that your cmdshell has to do. One other thing about criteria, it is case sensitive. For a complete syntax reference on Criteria Expression check out this web page on the SCOM SDK http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb437603.aspx
nworks the company that brought the Management Pack for VMware for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager has been aquired by Veeam. Veeam (http://www.veeam.com) which produces several utilities for VMWare has released the following press release http://www.veeam.com/pr_20080624.asp as well as the following FAQ (http://www.veeam.com/download/veeam_nworks_faq.pdf) on the aquisition of nworks.The new combined company will offers six products:
Veeam Backup – for fast recovery and file-level restore of VMware environments.
Veeam Reporter – to discover and document virtual environments.
Veeam Monitor – for performance monitoring of VMware infrastructure, either alone or with VMware VirtualCenter.
Veeam Configurator – to manage VMware configurations from a Windows interface.
nworks Smart Plug-In for VMware for HP Software Operations Manager – to directly incorporate VMware management into HP OpenView.
nworks Management Pack for VMware for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager - to directly incorporate VMware management into Microsoft SCOM.
This is so sweet! This new version of MP Viewer allows you to export data to Excel in addition to the existing HTML format that was available before. http://blogs.msdn.com/boris_yanushpolsky/archive/2008/06/20/mpviewer-1-6-exporting-to-excel.aspx
Borris also posted an Automating port monitoring using power shell with a script example, very nice! http://blogs.msdn.com/boris_yanushpolsky/archive/2008/06/20/automating-port-monitoring-using-powershell.aspx
Also an update was made to Module Explorer to version 2. http://blogs.msdn.com/boris_yanushpolsky/archive/2008/06/18/module-explorer-v2.aspx
Thanks for the great utilities Boris
thx Stefan S
A good friend recommended this xml utility to me after hearing my frustration with XML notepad 2007 when I was viewing Operations Manager 2007 management packs. XML Marker loads files really fast, and the color-coded test range highlighting when selecting objects in the tree view is very helpful. Give it a try if you have to edit or read raw xml files.
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