SCOM – How to Create an override
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Open the OpsMgrConsole, in the right pane select Monitoring and navigate to active alerts.
- Right click on the alert you want to set an override for and select Overrides\Override the Rule
- You will have the choice of who or what the override is applied too.
- The current object as a whole. (For example, when you choose the Computer object, Operations Manager disables or overrides the rule for all computers).
- A particular group.
- A specific object of the current type (for Example, a specific computer on the network).
- All objects of another type (such as Agent).
- You will have the choice of who or what the override is applied too.
How to move the Operations Manager 2007 Reporting Server
The download able pdf has the complete steps that I took to perform a successful move of our opsmgr reporting server to a new server separate from the Data Warehouse.
how-to-move-the-operations-manager-2007-reporting-server
How to create a SCOM Windows Events Monitor and alert on the Description field
When creating a monitor that alerts on event logs you may want to be able to monitor based on key words in the description field. This is not a default parmater and needs a few extra steps. But is still very easy to accomplish once you now the steps.
here are the two variables you will be adding to the monitor
parameter name: EventDescription
Alert description: $Data/EventDescription$
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How to create a Recovery task in SCOM on a windows service.
When you have the requirement to monitor a windows service through Microsoft’s System Center Operations Manger and have it restarted automatically you can not use the management pack templates. The reason for this is that the templates are stored in locked MP’s that you do not have access too.
Follow the following steps to monitor a service and have it restarted automatically by SCOM if it fails.
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ASP.net causes reporting services and prerequisite to fail
It appears that if IIS is installed before ASP then there are possible challenges with either the initial install of OpsMgr and/or the setup of reporting services. I have had two occasions where this has happened. In both cases I performed the exact same fix to resolve this.
WMI issues that prevent SCOM Agent install
During the initial install of the agents on the servers I ran across a hand full of failed agent installs. Nothing worked. Couldn’t push the install, and when I tried a manual install on the client it would fail halfway through with errors related to mof files.
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