You may notice the site will be in an erratic state for awhile. Just be patient. I need to re-organize and update a majority of the content as well as aggregate a lot of the fragments sitting out there.
This site will no longer be solely dedicated to Operations Manager. Instead, it will be focusing on automation & process improvement items – things to make our lives easier.
I’ll no longer be writing as the ‘elitist’ Senior OpsMgr Consultant which was my role for so many years – I’m now Joe SysAdmin. And as such, I’ll be tackling problems in that manner.
So except fewer Opsmgr posts, and more about dealing with opsmgr in the way most companies do; they pick Random System Admin guy, point a magic wand and say “You’re the OpsMgr Guy now”.
And this is how we’ll be solving problems from here on out.
Real, every day problems. A lot of them will clearly be hacks, but some of them will be quite wonderful.
On that note – if you’re a C# developer and would like to collaborate with me to get the OpsMgr Web Service to a state I feel is acceptable to distribute, please email me and lets start a dialog about all this.
Jeremy
Sorry for my lengthily hiatus folks. I honestly never meant to leave you stranded! There was a lot going on, and most of it wasn’t OpsMgr related, so I neglected you, fair reader. But my 33rd birthday was on the 26th and with it I vowed to not do it to you all again, so I am back!
Hopefully in a day or 2 I’ll have a new post for you – How to get other information into OpsMgr.
What do I mean by other information? Well, in my test scenario, that will be the current stock price for a symbol – we’re going to use MSFT.
There are many many ways to get information directly into SCOM. I’m going to use what *I* think is the easiest method – and that’s a PowerShell script that queries for the given symbols last price and then writes that into a custom performance counter.
To prepare for it, make sure you’re running the most current version of PowerShell 2.0 (Which is CTP3, if you’re on Windows 7 though, you’re fine). If you have UAC enabled, you’ll also need to run this script in an elevated prompt.
I was hoping to have the post out for you today – but an extended power outage at home ended that dream.
So in short: I’m back.
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 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!
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!
Welcome to the new Pavleck.Net, the technical side of Jeremy Pavleck’s blog. I need to do a LOT of work on this now, but at least I know what I’m doing. So stay tuned.
