I have been usurped in the silly monitors department!

 Authoring, Community, Fun, Management Packs  1 Response »
Oct 222009
 

Alas, it seems those Danes are just as goofy as I am. And I’m happy to hear it!

Jakob Svendsen over at CoreTech released a management pack today. That management pack will alert you when the coffee in your coffee pot gets low. I’ll go ahead and embed the video below, but you’ll have to go to their site to download it.

Now, I return to my dank and dark office, where I shall create a SUPERIOR coffee pot monitor!
I’m actually waiting on an order from SparkFun and Jameco to get here as we speak.

 

 Posted by jpavleck at 11:19 am  Tagged with: , ,

OpsMgr for… fun?

 Management Packs, Pavleck.NET, SCOM  2 Responses »
May 062009
 

Yes, it’s true. You can have fun with Operations Manager. Right now I’m currently on the bench, and then probably unemployment soon since jobs are scarce, but it won’t be slowing me down ((If you need someone in the Twin Cities area, please shoot me an email – it’s my first name@my last name.net.)) In fact, I’ll be able to work on a lot of the wacky creative uses for OpsMgr – things like:

  • Tracking your Dominoes pizza
  • Recording and reporting on things other then performance data – like stock prices, the weather, etc
  • Get emailed when your friend’s flight is about to land
  • Interacting with the physical environment using the Arduino microcontroller (Think: Turning on a fan when the heat gets too high)
  • And much much more!

So I’m rebuilding my current SP1 environment and turning it into an R2 RC one. Then I’ll start adding wacky monitors. And I’ll create a full management pack to do it, and you’ll learn step-by-step. It’ll be a fun time! So stay tuned, and you stay classy, San DIego!

 Posted by jpavleck at 3:13 pm  Tagged with: , ,

Contest extended, Wiki Updated

 Authoring, Contests, Management Packs, Pavleck.NET, SCOM, SDK  No Responses »
Dec 022008
 

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!

 Posted by jpavleck at 4:14 pm  Tagged with: ,
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