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Yes... you can now install the MOM 2005 SP1 Agent on Windows XP Embedded

The MOM 2005 SP1 Agent Prerequisite Component for Windows XP Embedded installs the necessary components that support the MOM 2005 SP1 Agent on Windows XP Embedded. This allows you to then install the MOM 2005 SP1 Agent and monitor the health of Windows Read More...
Posted Thursday, September 14, 2006 10:23 PM by DeploymentMan | 0 Comments

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 the update Read More...
Posted Friday, April 07, 2006 5:13 PM by twright | 1 Comments

.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 Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 20, 2005 6:36 AM by dhan | 0 Comments

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 with Read More...
Posted Friday, September 09, 2005 6:52 PM by DeploymentMan | 1 Comments

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 options: Read More...
Posted Thursday, September 01, 2005 12:57 PM by twright | 3 Comments

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 2000 administrator Read More...
Posted Thursday, September 01, 2005 12:41 PM by twright | 0 Comments

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 that there is Read More...
Posted Monday, August 22, 2005 2:34 PM by twright | 2 Comments

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 Read More...
Posted Monday, August 22, 2005 7:12 AM by dalekoetke | 1 Comments

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 new .omc file. Read More...
Posted Wednesday, August 03, 2005 10:28 PM by twright | 5 Comments

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 installing Read More...
Posted Monday, August 01, 2005 11:54 PM by twright | 2 Comments

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 core Read More...
Posted Saturday, July 23, 2005 1:00 AM by twright | 1 Comments

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. The performance view takes quite a bit of processing Read More...
Posted Sunday, July 03, 2005 3:42 PM by twright | 0 Comments