Congratulations are in order to Jim and Zolon, they won an autographed Operations Manager 2007 Unleashed and a Sapien Schwag pack – who will win next? Maybe it’s you! The prizes are getting better and better!
Thanks guys, I’ll be sending them out asap!
Please forgive the delay in posts, but trust me, I’ve been busy.
Shortly after this post I’m going to make a valiant attempt to get the new site up. Though I’ve learned that to import a Wordpress blog into Drupal, I need to install Drupal 5, run an import, then upgrade to 6. So yeah, we’ll see how that goes.
For the past several days I’ve been in an MS workshop entitled ‘Vital Signs’. It’s essentially a performance tuning course which focused on the counters and thresholds to watch out for. To commemorate the occassion, I’m working on a Windows Diagnostics Management Pack – which is mostly a group of tasks to run against a remote machine – collecting a variety of counters and analyzing it via SPA.
You’ve got about 5 hours to enter the contest, and then it’s all done. I’ve lined up additional items for upcoming contests, such as the top notch screen capture program Snagit by TechSmith. Thanks to them for that!
And I’ve been doing a lot of non-OpsMgr powershell work. Since I did intend for Pavleck.NET to include ‘general’ IT topics, I think I should start posting them – been working on a bunch of Amazon web services stuff.
Anyway, off to work on this upgrade!
Hey folks!
I’ve gone an extended last month’s contest a couple of weeks because I’m waiting for my lanyards to show up AND I really want more people to have signed up, because the prizes are just going to keep on getting better! So if you haven’t, go sign up @ Contest Machine – I don’t keep any personal info, seriously!
I’ve also worked over the weekend to cleanup the OpsMgr Wiki some – so please have a look. You can find all of the Command Shell cmdLet help, there’s a snapshot of the MS OpsMgr blogs, and even some management pack version info.
Additionally, the next few things I’m working on are an extension to the OpsMgr audible alert – I’ll show you 2 more ways to do it; Via WinRM & PowerShell and via a custom web service and connector. Look for that, soon!
Greetings my fellow OpsMgr admins! I’m back from vacation with 100% more married then before! And I come bearing gifts!1
Yes, that’s right, it’s contest time again. This time I’m offering up 2 things: 1 autographed copy of System Center Operations Manager 2007 Unleashed. This is a fairly rare item as it’s one of less then a half dozen signed by all the authors. I had to do dirty dirty things to Cameron to get it. I’m not proud, but for my peeps I go the distance!
A copy of SCOM2007 Unleashed signed by all the authors
The second item is a little teaser prize package from the wonderful folks over at Sapien Technologies. Soon I’ll be posting a new contest with oodles of Sapien prizes – from the PrimalScript Universal Resource Kit to flying monkies and more! That entire contest/post will be centered around setting up PrimalScript as the development environment for us OpsMgr Admins. You’ll love it! This current package, however, isn’t as illustrious: It contains a Sapien portfolio, PicoPad, Post-It notes, a credit card sized flash drive and an awesome pen!
A little teaser of whats to come from Sapien!
Additionally I’d like to offer up some SDK app loving I’ve been baking all day!
I’m working on a neat console application that was initially called Alert Utility, and is now just called the OpsMgr Utility. It reports on a variety of things and allows you to interact with the system in a variety of ways.
I’m not much of a programmer, so I need to start out slow – so the first thing I whipped up is a little utility called SCOM-CloseAll. Simply put, it takes 2 arguments – your RMS and an optional comment to insert when you resolve the alert. It then connects to the SDK service on the RMS, retrieves all open alerts, then resolves them. And yes, it does ask if you truly want to do this. It’s in beta, so I’d love it if you all could test it out for me. This is a perfect solution to handle those pesky alert storms and another tool in the box.
Take a look at the screenshots then download it here.
Showing the initial startup of the Alert Closer
Showing the progress bar indicating what % of alerts have been closed
