SteveSystems

If you get a logical disk showing as 'not available' in Opsmgr when it looks ok otherwise... Go check the disk dirty bit (Win32_LogicalDisk property 'Volumedirty'). Opsmgr checks this using the LogicalDiskHealthCheck.vbs script. I couldn't...

I'm being rather unbearably smug today as I just joined Cliff and the other 1000 in passing the SCCM MCT, hurrah, go me etc. :-D As we still seem to be in no danger whatsoever of seeing the System Center ITP (70-402) anytime soon so I guess it's...

....SCOM R2 Beta available now, get it at Connect! Whoo hoo etc etc... Steve

Get it here.... http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=ED012990-6E86-4B43-9842-DA5C02FF1C83&displaylang=en Steve

If you're following good security practise and planning to limit SCOM access to monitored SQL server instances watch out for a gotcha in the SQL management pack documentation. The documentation states (page 14) that the agent action account used for...

I wrote this stored proc below to get a value and time sampled for a specific Web application rule ' Base Content Size'. The purpose of this was twofold, firstly to grab the actual value from SCOM so I can use it in other systems e.g. to use the...

Here's another useful query, this gets the current state and date of last change for a specified object (basemanagedentity). I used this one to get state change information out of SCOM into another management product where there's no connector...

I needed to get values out of SCOM for some specific performance collection rules and couldn't find one anywhere else so I wrote this one below. This might be useful to anyone else having to do the same so here it is. To use this query in your own...

Just got this blog setup today and wouldn't you know it there's somthing to talk about already. We've had a problem recently with multiple (1000's!) of 'WMI Probe Module Failed Execution' alerts for workflow SQLServer.2005.AgentDiscovery...