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Here you'll find articles providing conceptual and practical guidance on MOM 2005 and MS System Center architecture and design, implementation and administration.

Scale-out Deployment of Operations Manager 2007 Web Interfaces

By Raphael Burri, this document bridges a gap in high availability OpsMgr 2007 architectures by providing step-by-step guidance for configuring the Web Console and Reporting components of Operations Manager 2007 in a high availability configuration. This document focuses on hardware load balancing to support a web farm hosting multiple instances of each of these components. This [...]

Using Event Descriptions in Alerts and Monitors

The question of “What XPath statement do I use to display the Event description” comes up often enough for us to forget.  It would be nice if the Ops Mgr Team would release a document that contains the ‘commonly used‘ XPath statements for Ops Mgr Administrators but don’t hold your breath…..
Here are the XPath statements to [...]

SCE Disaster Recovery Part 3 - Symmetrical Key backup for SDK Service

When SCE is installed for the first time, a symmetrical key is created for the purpose of encrypting RunAs account data for storage in the DB.  In the case of a disaster on the SCE server, if you do not have this key, then the RunAs information contained in the database is completely worthless and [...]

Old alerts that will not resolve in UI

Some users have reported a weird error to the OpsMgr newsgroups that involve old alerts that were previously resolved appearing in a UI console. Here is an example: old alerts will appear in the UI console on ServerA but not in the UI console on ServerB. ServerB will be considered up-to-date and correct [...]

Find a rule using Powershell in Ops Mgr 2007

I was trying to find out if a rule was deployed to a particular set of servers but I couldn’t find a quick way to do it. It is not that I don’t trust my overrides to work but I would just like to verify that they are working as intended. I have [...]

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