Welcome to TechNet Blogs Sign in | Join | Help

Tips, Tricks, and Best Practices (RSS)

Friday, April 07, 2006 5:13 PM

Tired of people stopping your MOM service? Want to increase MOM agent availability?

I hear reports quite often of people having trouble with MOM agents that get stopped or disabled by unwitting or mischievous server administrators.  MOM administrators have to respond to missing heartbeat alerts and start up the MOM service using
posted by twright | 1 Comments
Filed Under: , , ,
Thursday, October 20, 2005 6:36 AM

.NET application monitoring and DSI - MOM and AVIcode Management Pack

Application development and application maintenance are no longer separate. Closing the loop between operations and development is critical for keeping the total cost of operations down. Recently, the AVIcode .NET Operations management pack was released
posted by dhan | 0 Comments
Filed Under: , ,
Friday, September 09, 2005 6:52 PM

How to install the MOM Connector Framework (MCF), MOM to MOM Product Connector (MMPC) and MOM Web Console silently?

The following command line switches have not been mentioned in the MOM 2005 deployment guide. These switches are for users who would like to install the MOM Connector Framework, MOM to MOM Product Connector and the MOM Web Console silently.   Machine
posted by DeploymentMan | 1 Comments
Filed Under: ,
Thursday, September 01, 2005 12:57 PM

Playing a Sound When a New MOM Alert Comes In

We had another one of those interesting threads on an internal distribution alias today about playing a sound when a new alert comes into MOM.  While MOM doesnt support this natively, the contributors to this thread came up with some interesting
posted by twright | 3 Comments
Filed Under: , , ,
Thursday, September 01, 2005 12:41 PM

Running Multiple MOM Consoles at Once

We had an interesting thread today on an internal alias about running multiple MOM consoles simultaneously.  The following are supported configurations: Run multiple MOM 2000 consoles at once - create more than one MMC console with a MOM
posted by twright | 0 Comments
Filed Under: , , ,
Monday, August 22, 2005 2:34 PM

Creating a read-only MOM Operator Console

A question that I hear frequently is "How do I create a read-only Operator Console"? The MOM security groups are 'MOM User', 'MOM Author', and 'MOM Administrator'.  Unfortunately, there is no 'MOM Read-only User' security group.  This means
posted by twright | 2 Comments
Filed Under: , , ,
Monday, August 22, 2005 7:12 AM

MSDN Magazine MOM Article

MSDN Magazine has a great article on how to write a manageable application and then montoring it with MOM, entitled Instrument and Monitor Your ASP.NET Apps Using WMI and MOM 2005. This really gets to much of the core of DSI which starts wtih designing
posted by dalekoetke | 1 Comments
Filed Under: , , , ,
Wednesday, August 03, 2005 10:28 PM

Take Control of your MOM 2005 Operator Console Experience with .omc Files

The MOM 2005 Operator Console has a great hidden feature most people don't know about - .omc files!  A .omc file is a file which stores your personalization settings for the console session.  You can do a File/Save As at any time to start a
posted by twright | 5 Comments
Filed Under: ,
Monday, August 01, 2005 11:54 PM

Bypassing the MOM 2005 Installation Prerequisite Checker

There are quite a few situations recently which have come up where you might want to bypass the MOM 2005 installation prerequisite checker.  These include installing MOM 2005 (not SP1) on a Yukon server, installing the MOM UI on Windows Vista, or
posted by twright | 2 Comments
Filed Under: ,
Saturday, July 23, 2005 1:00 AM

Microsoft IT - Showcase customer of Microsoft Operations Manager

I have been working with Microsoft IT (MSIT) for three years now as the Program Manager liason with various teams within Microsoft IT.  MSIT is a huge organization and there are many different groups within MSIT that are the earliest and most hard
posted by twright | 1 Comments
Filed Under: , , ,
Sunday, July 03, 2005 3:42 PM

Automatically Refreshing the Perf View in the MOM console

Quite a few customers have asked 'Why doesn’t the performance view automatically refresh like the other views in the operator console?"  This is a great question.  There are basically two reasons for this:   1.     
posted by twright | 0 Comments
Filed Under: ,