Chat

October 7th, 2009 Leave a comment Go to comments

As great as forums and news groups are, nothing beats the ‘let me bounce this idea off of you’ right now repertoire like realtime chat. As a community we should have some easy way to be able to talk to each other, right? Instant messanger programs are awesome, but there’s that whole ‘adding contact-let’s wait to be approved-who are you?-I’m so and so-Oh ok’ rigamarole that we have to go through first – so what to do?

Well, why not IRC? I’ve created a channel on the Freenode network called #SCOM for us to chat about OpsMgr and whatever else. Why FreeNode? Well, the PowerShell folks have a channel there, so I figure it’s as good as any for me to hang out.

So in your favorite IRC client, just connect to server irc.Freenode.Net and /join #SCOM. If you’re looking for a client, here’s a whole list of them for Windows – I use mIrc & Pidgin currently.

Chat will open up in a new window.

Chat here

  1. Rory Primrose
    January 19th, 2009 at 01:03 | #1
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    Hi Jeremy,

    I am trying to write a SCOM pack that will read records in a database table to create event data in SCOM, much like getting a monitor to read a Windows event log.

    I am using a DataSourceModuleType that uses a System.OleDbProbe to query a database. I then have a rule that writes the records to the SCOM database and warehouse. The issue I’m having is that I need to convert between System.OleDbData and System.Event.Data. The problem is that there doesn’t appear to be any documentation about the schema for System.OleDbData that I can use with a System.Event.GenericDataMapper.

    Are you able to point me in the right direction?

    Cheers,

    Rory

  2. Sameer Dave
    March 19th, 2009 at 12:40 | #2
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    Hello,

    I am sooo glad that I found your website. Thank you for the great work and your help to the thousands of scom admins who are struggling to find answers.

    I am not sure if this is the right place to post a question, but as I could not connect to the IRC, I thought of posting it here.

    I have a question on the recent gateway server I deployed in our SCOM Management group.
    Details — We have a scom enviroment which has around 400 servers being monitored. All are monitoring us.abc.com. Now we added a gateway server to another domain which is xx.abc.com. Both domain have a trust established, so we didn’t have to use any certificates.

    All servers are being monitored fine on the us.abc.com. Now xx.abc.com has exchange servers which we added for monitoring. I created a group for xx servers and added all the xx servers (monitored by gateway server) to that group. xx exchange server was also added to the xx group. Created a subscription for the xx servers to be sent to the xx admins.

    Now all the exchange related alerts are going to the us.abc.com admins instead of going to the xx group subscription which I had created. I checked the groups for us.abc.com admins subscription, and found that MS Exchange 2003 Server group is what they are getting alerts from.

    Now, I am not sure how I could get these exchange alerts sent to the xx group instead of the us.abc group. I have checked on a few other alerts for xx servers and they are working fine, except the exchange alerts…

    Any suggestions-troubleshooting steps I need to do for these exchange alerts?

    Thanks

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