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Operations Manager 2007 SP1, 2007 R2, 2012 Beta: General discussion forum
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Operator Basics SuperFlow available
The Operator Basics SuperFlow for Operations Manager 2007 helps front-line operators who are new to Operations Manager get started using the product.
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Troubleshooting Blank Reports in System Center Operations Manager
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Looking to Create Performance Alerting?
How to create a Basic Performance Monitor to look at a Static Threshold - http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb309655.aspx
Detailed information on Performance Monitors can be found at - http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff629408.aspx
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Cumulative Update 6 for System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 (KB2626076)
Cumulative Update 6 for Operations Manager 2007 R2 includes all previous cumulative updates for Operations Manager 2007 R2 and includes all cross-platform updates.
To download Cumulative Update 6 for Operations Manager 2007 R2, go to the following Microsoft Download Center website:Download Cumulative Update 6 for System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=694147f8-9691-4833-97af-0de918c60141)
Cumulative Update 6 for Operations Manager 2007 R2 resolves the following issues:- RMS promotion fails if NetworkName and PrincipalNames are not in sync for agents.
- UI is limited to only 100 MB for the Memory Usage field in the wizard.
- Additional OIDs in auth certificate are not processed correctly.
- AEM creates duplicate computer objects in OpsMgr based on Agents NetBIOS name.
- Cannot open reporting pane on OpsMgr 2007 R2 remote console.
- Cannot view schedule for scheduled report.
- ManagementServerConfigTool with the option "promoterms" fails because it stops polling the SDK Service.
- OpsMgr reports are failing on Windows 7 with the error: "Cannot initialize report."
- ACS events have "n/a" as their category in the ACS database.
- Watch agentless monitoring listener to detect failure to respond.
- SCOM SDK memory leak on cryptography keys and cryptography contexts.
- After you click Edit Schedule, a message box appears, and you cannot save the change value.
- Audit events can be lost when the AdtServer process crashes.
- The installation process for the IBM AIX 6.1 agent incorrectly checks for AIX 5.3 packages.
- After a system restart, the OpsMgr agent for Solaris may start to run before local file systems are mounted.
- On Red Hat Linux version 4 and SUSE Linux version 9, LVM disks are not discovered and cannot be monitored.
- The OpsMgr agent for AIX does not report the arguments for monitored processes.
- When Microsoft security update MS12-006 is installed on an OpsMgr management server, that management server can no longer communicate with the OpsMgr agent on any Linux or UNIX server.
- On HP-UX, OpsMgr cannot discover and monitor a logical volume that is composed of more than 127 physical volumes.
- Support for IBM AIX 7.1 (POWER).
- Support for Oracle Solaris 11 (x86 and SPARC).
System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Cross Platform Monitoring Management Packs (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=b15fef5c-e331-4006-8913-be376bb0e0c1) - Link
Custom Report Documentation Available
This is available at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg508710.aspx and covers the following:
Custom Reporting Overview
Setting Up the Environment
Creating Custom Reports
Data Warehouse Schema
Inside a Generic Report
Custom Report Queries
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Update Rollup 3 for System Center 2012 (KB2750631)
Update Rollup 3 for System Center Operations Manager 2012 (KB2750631)
Issue 1
When you use the 32-bit version of Windows Internet Explorer to start a web console, the Microsoft.EnterpriseManagement.Presentation.Controls.SpeedometerGaugeUIController controller does not work correctly.
Issue 2
When you run a Windows PowerShell cmdlet, you receive the following error message:Get-BPAModel is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet.
Issue 3
When you try to change a URL in the "web application availability monitoring" template instance, the change is not applied.KB article: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2756127/en-us
Download link: http://catalog.update.microsoft.com/v7/site/Search.aspx?q=2750631
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Looking to Create Event Monitors?
How to create a Simple Event Monitor - http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb309597.aspx
How to create a Correlated Windows Event Unit Monitor - http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb381298.aspx
Detailed information on Event Monitors can be found at - http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff629447.aspx
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Troubleshooting Gray Agent or Management Server states in System Center Operations Manager 2007 and System Center Essentials
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2288515 - please check this before posting on any grey Agent or MS issues. - Link
Cumulative Update 7 for System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 (KB2783850)
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2783850/en-us
Issues that are fixed in Cumulative Update 7
Cumulative Update 7 for System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 fixes the following issues:- Console performs poorly when User Roles are used to scope object access.
- Availability data is not shown for the current day when daily aggregation is used.
- Behavior is inconsistent between some views on web console and console.
- Log files do not roll over when the Unicode log file is monitored.
- Several security issues are fixed.
- Logical disk performance statistics are not collected for some volume types on Solaris computers.
- Some Network Adapters on HP-UX computers may not be discovered.
- Network adapter performance statistics are not collected for HP-UX network adapters.
- The Solaris 8 and 9 agent may not restart after an ungraceful shutdown.
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Operations Manager 2007 R2 Sizing Helper available for download
Check out the Operations Manager 2007 R2 Sizing Helper.The Operations Manager 2007 R2 Sizing Helper is an interactive Excel document designed to assist you with planning & sizing deployments of Operations Manager 2007 R2. It helps you plan the correct amount of infrastructure needed for a new OpsMgr R2 deployment, removing the uncertainties in making IT hardware purchases and optimizes cost. A typical recommendation will include the recommended hardware specification for each server role, topology diagram and storage requirement. The Operations Manager Sizing Helper is most useful when used with the Operations Manager 2007 R2 Design Guide (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=184377).
The Sizing Helper was previously available through the System Center Operations Manager blog.
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Exchange 2010 MP Guidance
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Operations Manager 2007 Authoring Console prompts for Microsoft.SystemCenter.Library.mp version 6.1.7221.61 or later versions
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How to differentiate between warning and critical and informational in an email alert
goof1427 Monday, May 20, 2013 4:29 AM - 457

How to set up monitoring for a file using SCOM
Aslesha T Monday, May 20, 2013 3:31 PM - 322

Many errors in SCOM2007R2......
bradje 7 hours 43 minutes ago - 016

ASA 5525 Firewall monitors changes from healthy to unknown periodically
Lance Lyons 9 hours 13 minutes ago - 175

SCOM 2012 SP1 Scheduled Canned report
Kitaab Thursday, May 09, 2013 11:16 AM - 257

Unable to perform Trace functions
larry.leblanc Friday, May 17, 2013 8:12 PM - 667

How can I see when a monitor override was created, and by whom
mpleaf Monday, May 20, 2013 10:32 PM - 17328

Performance data gaps
Cookie.Monster Wednesday, March 27, 2013 12:37 PM - 246

Grooming is not working in SCOM DW
Sandoss Kumar Monday, May 20, 2013 12:42 PM - 10547

Data Warehouse failed to deploy reports for a management pack to SQL Reporting Services Server
Carlos GC Thursday, March 07, 2013 5:40 PM - 465

The Generic Performance Mapper module experienced an execution failure.
Ven007 Sunday, May 19, 2013 4:21 PM - 276

SCOM 2007 : RDP connection is not working any more after the server rebooted after a harddisk crach.
Adesign Thursday, May 16, 2013 8:16 AM - 376

I need an Older Version of a Management Pack
KHigginz Friday, May 17, 2013 7:16 PM - 444

confused with management server action account and agent action account
om zeyad 20 hours 0 minutes ago - 456

Error when running the first time Discovery
Daoud_Ghannam Sunday, May 19, 2013 12:41 PM - 396

Sorting by "Created" in Groups view not working
larry.leblanc Thursday, May 09, 2013 1:14 PM - 679

Servers are in "Not Monitored" state in SCOM 2007 R2
Udit Jain Friday, May 17, 2013 12:15 PM - 487

Config churn (what is too much?)
JarvJarv Thursday, May 16, 2013 3:16 PM - 356

Trace SCOM server
Poobalan Munusamy 20 hours 48 minutes ago - 270

problem in the Root mangment server ( receiving too many emails ) Resolution state: Closed
Abdul S Wednesday, May 15, 2013 10:00 AM

