AuthorMPs
This blog is focused on authoring concepts and samples for System Center Operations Manager (SCOM). This is the replacement for www.authormps.com.
Microsoft iSCSI Target 3.3 Released
So this is not a normal topic for this blog. I will be back soon with some more content but things...
Date: 04/05/2011
Your MP Discoveries and Clustering
This is one of a few posts I will likely do on monitoring applications running on clusters using...
Date: 03/13/2011
Decentralizing Monitoring Configuration
SCOM provides rich override capabilities from the console so authorized users can override...
Date: 03/11/2011
Installation of Authoring Resource Kit on .Net 4.0
If you are using the Authoring Console and are having problems trying to install it if you only have...
Date: 03/10/2011
Visualizing the MP Schema
Did you know you can use any edition of Visual Studio to easily visualize and walk through the MP...
Date: 03/08/2011
State Based Vs. Stateless monitoring
This is more of a philosophical post I wanted to write based on some recent conversations I have had...
Date: 03/07/2011
Seed Based Discovery Concepts
Seed based discovery is a reasonably common concept that is used in many Microsoft MPs. There are a...
Date: 02/25/2011
Management Pack Schema
As I was moving content over from the old authormps, I was reviewing all the old schema...
Date: 02/24/2011
Workflow Types
In MOM 2005 things were fairly straight forward. You had the concept of rules, tasks and responses....
Date: 02/24/2011
Module Type Semantics
This is a quick summary of the different module types available in Operations Manager. Again nothing...
Date: 02/24/2011
Composite Write Action
This tutorial shows some composition basics and uses a write action that we will use in a task to...
Date: 02/24/2011
Using Abstract Classes
A very quick run through of how and why to use an abstract class when building management packs....
Date: 02/24/2011
Basic Monitors
To go with the basic rule MP here is the basic monitor MP. Again nothing new, just good XML...
Date: 02/24/2011
Basic Collection and Alerting Rules
This is a collection of basic collection rules and alert generating rules from a number of different...
Date: 02/24/2011
Discovery Samples
This is a nice collection of discovery samples - again very old but should still work. The zip file...
Date: 02/24/2011
Your First MP in XML
This is a very old tutorial I wrote that is a good first step into the intricacies of XML authoring...
Date: 02/24/2011
Consolidation / Composition Tutorial
Another old favorite topic I get asked about quite a lot. This tutorial covers two concepts and ties...
Date: 02/24/2011
Property Bags and Multi Instance Monitoring
Another old tutorial I wrote. This tutorial and sample MP shows you the right and wrong way to go...
Date: 02/24/2011
OLEDB Based Monitoring
OK first real post on this new blog. This is a set of tutorials and sample MPs I wrote a while back....
Date: 02/24/2011
New blog
This blog is going to be the replacement for www.authormps.com. Maintaining this site is quite...
Date: 02/24/2011