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Collection of Miscellaneous VB Scripts

admin — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 03:32:23 GMT

from Idan Lerer, this zip file contains a number of sample scripts that can be adapted for use in MOM 2005, Operations Manager or Essentials 2007. Samples include time zone check, process dump by memory usage, system uptime check, and a couple of file script samples (file count and last modified check).

Adobe Flash Mediaserver Managment Pack for Operations Manager 2007

admin — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 11:58:08 GMT

by Raphael Burri, The Adobe Flash Media Server management pack monitors the health of Adobe’s FMS 2 and 3, installed on Windows Computers. It provides discovery, availability, performance collection rules, performance reports and FMS related tasks. The management pack requires at least Operations Manager 2007 SP1.

Great work Raphael!

Operations Manager 2007 Free Disk Space Monitor - Custom MP

admin — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 12:32:56 GMT

by Scott Moss, This MP addresses a challenge dating back to MOM 2005.

Operations Manager 2007 free disk space script monitor had the same problem the original mom 2005 script had. It required a disk to cross both a percent free and free megabytes thresholds before an alert would be fired off. This script only works on logical disks, not mount points. Monitoring of mount points is done by another script/monitor.

This management pack contains one Monitor named Logical Disk Free Space – Customized that runs the modified Operations Manager 2007 free disk space script. The monitor is setup to run every 15 minutes on the hour. The monitor is disabled by default. There are four rules to catch possible errors that are written to the agents Operations Manager event log.

Great work Scott!

Group-to-Class Sample MP for Operations Manager 2007

admin — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:29:41 GMT

by Anders Bengtsson, this management pack allows security groups in Active Directory to be used to discover classes in Operations Manager 2007. For example if you already have your servers divied into security groups in Active Directory you can use populate classes from those groups and use the same in Operations Manager 2007 for targeting.

This management pack needs to be adapt to your environment before you can use it. Anders recommends you to do that in the Authoring Console.

Nice work Anders!

Alert Forward Managment Pack 3.0

admin — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 06:12:30 GMT

by Ron Williams, this management pack creates a console task that will allow you to forward the selected alert to an email recipient. To forward an alert, select the alert , and then click on "Forward Alert via Email" in the Actions pane of the Operations Manager console.

If you are running the task from a console installed on a PC that also has Microsoft Office Outlook, then the task will open an email prepopulated with the information contained in the alert. If you do not have Outlook installed, then the email will be sent by SMTP.

To install the management pack, copy the 3 installation files to a directory on your Root Management Server. The installer MUST be run from a directory local on your root management server, and will not run from a UNC share. Double click on Setup.exe.

The installer will prompt for three values:
1. The name of your RMS
2. The FQDN or IP of your SMTP server (for emails sent by SMTP)
3. The email sender's address (for emails sent by SMTP)

The installer will then create a directory at C:\Forward_Alerts_MP. It will share the directory as \\%Servername%\Forward_Alerts_MP, then copy the required files to that folder and import the management pack into OpsMgr.

MSMQ Queue Monitoring Script for OpsMgr and Essentials 2007

admin — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 19:37:43 GMT

by Idan Lerer, this script can be used in a Timed Script Rule in Operations Manager and Essentials to monitor the number of messages queued against a user defined threshold.

Management Pack Export Utility

admin — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 19:31:34 GMT

by Neale Brown, this recently updated utiltiy provides several command line options for exporting sealed and unsealed MPs from both Operations Manager 2007 and System Center Essentials 2007. This is especially handy for Essentials adminsitrators, as they previously have had no way to export MPs to an unsealed format.

File System Management Pack for Operations Manager 2007

admin — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 05:38:45 GMT

Updated 11/28/2008

Version 6.0.1.3

by Jaime Correia, this management pack provides several script-based monitors for shares, files and folders, offering something for most any scenario. The MP also includes custom object classes for discovered objects, and an impressive diagram view. The accompanying MP Guide is also quite detailed.

Well done Jaime!

Remote Maintenance Mode Scheduler for OpsMgr 2007

admin — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 05:32:24 GMT

by Timothy McFadden, the remote maintenance mode scheduler adds a GUI wizard interface to scheduling updated versions of Timothy's Operations Manager Powershell maintenance mode scripts in Task Scheduler. Definitely much nicer than contending with the Task Scheduler directly.

SDK Connector Tool for Operations Manager 2007

admin — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:44:46 GMT

by Vicent de Vries, the SDK Connector tool allows you to manage Product Connectors in your Operations Manager 2007 environment through a simple graphical user interface. The tool is self explanatory. In the "Connect to Host..." popup enter the machine name of your Root Management Server. Once connected, the tool will show three tab pages: remove a Product Connector, add a Product Connector and an about tab.

SCCM Roles Wizard

admin — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 11:24:55 GMT

by Jason Scheffelmaer

The SCCM Roles Wizard is a Bare Metal solution to the SCCM Image Deployment Process. It is used in conjunction with SCCM and Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) to deliver a front-end solution tonon-managed Bare Metal systems. By querying the MDT database for Roles and delivering them to the front-end wizard the technician deploying the image has the ability to choose predefined Roles directly from the database that can change or apply how the build isapplied. This includes things such as which domain or OU structure tojoin, what post applications to install, or even homepage or Productkeys to use.

This addresses the problem that even though SCCM/MDT supported a roles based build delivery it had no way of you choosing which role you wanted to apply during the deployment. Any roles and settings that you wanted to apply to the build had to be done up front before the Bare Metal system actually was deployed. This was not feasible in many companies processes to be able to choose and apply these roles and settings on a per machine basis up front. This is a front-end to do just that, it also has a wizard for naming the computer.

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