SCOM: Online Management Pack documentation

Today I was working on new Management Pack for SCOM 2012. As I was searching for a base class definition on the internet, I found this website which can be convinient if you need a quick peek at the System Center libraries. This website shows the System Center management packs contents and is easy to browse for class definitions, discoveries, rules and monitors.

Check it out: http://mpdb.azurewebsites.net/

Have fun!

Searching for Management Pack authoring

Today I came accross a blog post of Brian Wren from Microsoft.
They're working on a better search solution for finding information focussed on System Center technologies.

Now information and examples are scattered around the internet on forums, blogs, technet, community sites and you name it.

The solution Microsoft is working on is called 'System Center Cloud Search'. It's using the Bing search engine with selected data sources to search in.

For now, the beta is focussed on Management Pack Authoring.

See the whole story here: http://blogs.technet.com/b/mpauthor/archive/2011/04/15/cloud-search-for-management-pack-authoring.aspx

Give it a shot to see if this works for you and help making it better!

SCOM 2007 R2 Core MP Update & Guide Inconsistency

Last week Microsoft published a new version of the Core MP for SCOM 2007 R2, version 6.1.7695.0, see Kevin Holman's blog.

The MP Guide showed 3 new rules that where added with this version as a substitution for two monitors which you could enable and disable, respectively.

However after loading the MP in my test environment, it showed that the new rules are already enabled and the substituted monitors disabled.









Quote:

Manual Reset MonitorsThe Operations Manager Management Pack contains two monitors that require manual reset of health state, which are listed below. In version 6.1.7695.0 of the management pack, rules have been included that you can ??? enable in place of those monitors. The rules generate alerts for the same conditions as the monitors.

You can disable Alert Subscription Configuration Monitor and in its place, enable the following
rules:

• Alert Subscription Configuration Critical Notification Rule, which generates a critical alert on the same critical conditions as the monitor.
• Alert Subscription Configuration Warning Notification Rule, which generates a warning alert on the same warning conditions as the monitor.

You can disable the Alert Subscription Available monitor, and in its place, enable Alert Subscription Availability Critical Notification Rule, which generates a critical alert on the
same critical conditions as the monitor.

Just wanted to let you know.

SCOM: Operations Manager 2007 R2 Documentation

As I was browsing the Microsoft Technet site (most recent downloads) I came across a renewed documentation package for Operations Manager 2007 R2.

In this package you'll find everything you need for administering and authoring your OpsMgr environment, including XPlat! Also an easy way to complete your documentation library if it's not already up-to-date.

Here's a list with the contents:

• Linked.Reporting.MP.xml
• OM2007_AuthGuideXplat.exe
• OM2007_ReportAuthoringGuide.docx
• OM2007R2_CrossPlatformMPAuthoringGuide.docx
• OM2007R2_CrossPlatformMPAuthoringGuide_Samples.zip
• OM2007R2_DeploymentGuide.docx
• OM2007R2_DesignGuide.docx
• OM2007R2_MigrationGuide.docx
• OM2007R2_MPAuthoringGuide.docx
• OM2007R2_MPModuleReference.docx
• OM2007R2_OperationsAdministratorsGuide.docx
• OM2007R2_OperationsUsersGuide.docx
• OM2007R2_SecurityGuide.docx
• OM2007R2_UpgradeGuide.docx

If you want it all, just use the last download link

• System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Documentation.zip

Microsoft's technet site: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=19BD0EB5-7CA0-41BE-8C0F-2D95FE7EC636&displaylang=en

Even for the more experienced people there's a change already known documents are updated since the last time they were used in the field. So check it out.