December 2008 - Posts
Just in time for Christmas, CTP3 of Powershell v2 was realeased last nigth and is available for download. Too bad its not supported with SCOM. Perhaps in the future it will be.
It was announced Friday that they have released the Operations Manager 2007 R2 Interop Connectors (Beta 2) to Connect.
This package contains the beta software for System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Interop Connectors.
The following Connectors are included:
Operations Manager 2007 R2 Connector for Tivoli Enterprise Console
Operations Manager 2007 R2 Connector for HP OpenView Operations
Operations Manager 2007 R2 Universal Connector
https://connect.microsoft.com
A few quick and dirty reports to find out what open alerts are or are not created by a monitor.
>get-alert -criteria 'ResolutionState = ''0'' AND IsMonitorAlert = ''True'''|Group-Object Name |Sort -desc Count | select-Object Count, Name |Format-Table -auto
Count Name
----- ----
10 A storage threshold event has been detected
5 Check Service Monitor reported a problem
4 Failed to Connect to Computer
4 A RAID event of Warning severity from Adaptec has been detected
>get-alert -criteria 'ResolutionState = ''0'' AND IsMonitorAlert = ''False'''|Group-Object Name |Sort -desc Count | select-Object Count, Name |Format-Table -auto
Count Name
----- ----
18 Power sub-system degraded or failed.
14 Temperature degraded.
6 A SQL job failed to complete successfully
4 Path removed.
By request I came up with the following PowerShell one liner to close all open alerts that were generated by a Rule. Reason being that if one closes an alert generated by a monitor, that alert will not be fired off again until the computers health is recalculated. To find alerts that are generated by a rule I use the IsMonitorAlert property from the get-alert commandlet. IsMonitorAlert is either True or False. If the property IsMonitorAlert = True then the alert was generated by a monitor. If the property IsMonitorAlert = False then the alert was generated by a rule.
get-alert -criteria 'ResolutionState = ''0'' AND IsMonitorAlert = ''False'''| resolve-alert -comment "Closing rule generated alerts" | out-null
Exchange Server 2007 Management Pack for System Center Operations Manager 2007 6.0.6461.0
Overview
The Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 management pack is designed to be used for monitoring Exchange 2007 events, collecting Exchange component-specific performance counters in one central location, and for raising alerts for operator intervention as necessary. By detecting, sending alerts, and automatically responding to critical events, this management pack helps indicate, correct, and prevent possible service outages or configuration problems, allowing you to proactively manage Exchange servers and identify issues before they become critical. The management pack monitors and provides alerts for automatic notification of events indicating service outages, performance degradation, health monitoring, and centralized management.
This Management Pack requires Operations Manager 2007 Service Pack 1.
This Management Pack requires the Operations Manager 2007 updates specified in Knowledge Base articles 950853, 951979 and 951380 (see the Management Pack Guide for details).
Feature Summary
The Exchange Server 2007 Management Pack includes rules and scripts to monitor and report on performance, availability, and reliability of all Exchange 2007 server roles including.
- Mailbox Server Role
- Client Access Server Role
- Hub Transport Server Role
- Edge Transport Server Role
- Unified Messaging Server Role