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OpsMgr 2012: Configure notifications
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Author: Kevin Holman Date: 04/27/2012
OpsMgr 2012: a quickstart deployment guide
There is already a very good deployment guide posted on TechNet here: ...
Author: Kevin Holman Date: 04/26/2012
OpsMgr: How to monitor non-Microsoft SQL databases in SCOM – an example using Postgre SQL
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Author: Kevin Holman Date: 03/19/2012
Deploying Unix/Linux Agents using OpsMgr 2012
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Author: Kevin Holman Date: 03/18/2012
OpsMgr: How to create a group of all Windows Computers that are NOT a member of another group
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Author: Kevin Holman Date: 03/09/2012
Test/Demo OpsMgr 2012 network monitoring with Jalasoft’s network device simulator
Testing the functionality of the network monitoring components of OpsMgr is pretty simple, when you...
Author: Kevin Holman Date: 02/17/2012
Security in Operations Manager – some perspectives and typical customer scenarios
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Author: Kevin Holman Date: 02/17/2012
OpsMgr 2012: What should the SPN’s look like?
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Author: Kevin Holman Date: 08/08/2011
How to monitor SQL Agent jobs using the SQL Management Pack and OpsMgr
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Author: Kevin Holman Date: 08/05/2011
How to test fire ANY Windows Event on ANY server from ANY application
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Author: Kevin Holman Date: 08/02/2011
OpsMgr 2012: Discovering a network device
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Author: Kevin Holman Date: 07/20/2011
How to collect performance data from a script. Example: Network adapter utilization
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Author: Kevin Holman Date: 03/02/2011
Renaming your Default Management Pack
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Author: Kevin Holman Date: 02/15/2011
Rare gateway / certificate issue – Event 20077 - the certificate cannot be queried for property information
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Author: Kevin Holman Date: 02/05/2011
How to monitor a service with unique names across multiple computers using a wildcard
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Author: Kevin Holman Date: 01/20/2011
How to collect performance data for SQL databases (multi-instance objects)
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Author: Kevin Holman Date: 12/17/2010
Monitoring Windows Services – Automatic, Manual, and Disabled, using CheckStartupType
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Author: Kevin Holman Date: 11/07/2010
Uh Oh. Operations Database is full!
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Author: Kevin Holman Date: 10/05/2010
How to create a group of objects, that are CONTAINED by some other group
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Author: Kevin Holman Date: 09/09/2010
Configuring Run As Accounts and Profiles in OpsMgr – A SQL Management Pack Example
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Author: Kevin Holman Date: 09/08/2010
Operations Manager 101–download
Attached to this blog article you will find a PDF file that some of my PFE (Premier Field Engineer)...
Author: Kevin Holman Date: 09/02/2010
The 31552 event, or “why is my data warehouse server consuming so much CPU?”
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Author: Kevin Holman Date: 08/29/2010
How to create a monitor to inspect the value of a registry key
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Author: Kevin Holman Date: 08/01/2010
Logical Disk Availability is critical – what does this mean?
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Author: Kevin Holman Date: 07/29/2010
How to create a monitor for existence of a registry key
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Author: Kevin Holman Date: 07/28/2010
Authoring groups - from simple to complex
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Author: Kevin Holman Date: 07/27/2010
How to monitor a process on a multi-CPU agent using ScaleBy
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Author: Kevin Holman Date: 07/27/2010
Why do I have duplicate SQL databases or logical disks in the console after a version upgrade?
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Author: Kevin Holman Date: 07/26/2010
Using OpsMgr for intrusion detection and security hardening
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Author: Kevin Holman Date: 04/12/2010
A SQL query to get task output data from the OpsDB
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Author: Kevin Holman Date: 04/08/2010
Basic troubleshooting of discovery scripts
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Author: Kevin Holman Date: 03/09/2010
How to get your agents back to “Remotely Manageable” in OpsMgr 2007 R2
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Author: Kevin Holman Date: 02/20/2010
Stop monitoring SQL Express and Windows Internal Database
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Author: Kevin Holman Date: 02/13/2010
Understanding and modifying Data Warehouse retention and grooming
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Author: Kevin Holman Date: 01/05/2010
Tuning tip: Do you have monitors constantly “flip flopping” ?
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Author: Kevin Holman Date: 12/21/2009
Tuning tip – turning off some over-collection of events
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Author: Kevin Holman Date: 11/25/2009
Writing monitors to target Logical or Physical Disks
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Author: Kevin Holman Date: 11/24/2009
Making groups of logical disks – an example from simple to advanced
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Author: Kevin Holman Date: 11/04/2009
What is config churn?
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Author: Kevin Holman Date: 10/04/2009
Fixing troubled agents
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Author: Kevin Holman Date: 10/01/2009
Alert Notification Subscription Variables, and linking that to the console, database, and SDK
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Author: Kevin Holman Date: 09/23/2009
Removing an old product connector
UPDATE 10/4/2011 – This article is now out of date. There is a KB article with a...
Author: Kevin Holman Date: 09/10/2009
Writing reports against RAW Perf data in the Data Warehouse
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Author: Kevin Holman Date: 07/24/2009
101: Using custom scripts to write events to the OpsMgr Event Log with MOMScriptAPI.LogScriptEvent
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Author: Kevin Holman Date: 07/22/2009
Getting lots of Script Failed To Run alerts? WMI Probe Failed Execution? Backward Compatibility Script Error?
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Author: Kevin Holman Date: 06/29/2009
Using a Generic Text Log rule to monitor an ASCII text file – even when the file is a UNC path
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Author: Kevin Holman Date: 06/19/2009
Web Application recorder R2 – the recorder bar missing in IE?
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Author: Kevin Holman Date: 06/19/2009
Outages and Maintenance Report
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Author: Kevin Holman Date: 06/11/2009
Creating custom dynamic computer groups based on registry keys on agents
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Author: Kevin Holman Date: 06/10/2009
Maintenance mode – tying the text of the category to the database
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Author: Kevin Holman Date: 06/05/2009