Pavleck.NET

I’ve been incredibly busy doing the basic administration work that comes in an OpsMgr implementation, and as such I have nothing to interesting to write about. Though I have some ideas ticking in the back of my head

I’ve also switched webhosts, and am playing with different solutions for the new pavleck.net, so that eats up some time.

But I wanted to bring to everyone’s attention the very excellent post my friend Kevin Holman wrote – Which hotfixes should I apply?

I was actually missing one or two and once installed they actually resolved a lot of issues that I didn’t even know about – stuff started working great!

So I suggest you run on over there and get yourself fixed up!

Although I technically received the congratulations email several days ago, I debated about whether or not I should post it. But I might as well. Well, what is it already?

I am the newest MS MVP for OpsMgr! I am absolutely thrilled to be the 29th member of the OpsMgr MVP family, and really looking forward to seeing all the new found knowledge I’ll have access too, and can pass it on to you!

As for my workload, well I’m quite busy at the moment, so posts may be a tad sparse. There’s an MS engineer on site at this client, essentially to backup that yes, these are really the only ways to do this. I’m trying to bang out this SDK connector service, which essentially is the culmination of other posts I’ve written regarding the fine tuning of alerts via alert name. Some of what I’m going to be accomplishing is in R2, but it’s not RTM yet and as such I need to act just like it doesn’t exist.

It has a new name now, the OpsMgr Alert Wrangler. It’s much like some of the code I’ve written here, except for it uses an XML config file instead of having everything hardcoded, and it hopes to be a little bit smarter about how it accomplishes things. This is really my first real foray into programming anything serious, so once it’s at a stable enough place I’ll be throwing it on CodePlex so you can all make fun of me and tear it apart. 

There is an additional method to narrow alerts, and it seems like it would really work well – and that is the Alert Category; right now it has things like availability, DSIntegration, performance, custom, etc etc. I can’t find a way to properly add a new category – yet. By all accounts, the SDK documentation says I can’t – the categories are static coded members of the EnerpriseManagement.Configuration namespace, but that’s not to say there isn’t something undocumented. I’ll keep tapping away at it.

I need to bang together a new contest, and this time give away something really good, like some copies of Sapien Primalscript and such – which will come soon when I finish my ‘I <3 Primalscript’ post fairly soon.

I also to work more on the Wiki, work on my video Q&A, and about 2 dozen other things – there’s really a free moment!