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    April 21

    System Center Operations Manager Tools (Updated on June 19, 2008)

     

    Here are some useful tools that you might want to check out when working with System Center Operations Manager 2007:

     

    • Create URL Monitor; script to create url monitors, download
    • Agent MM; a command line tool to place OpsMgr agents into Maintenance mode, download
    • Creating overrides using the SDK, download
    • DumpMpContents; dump the contents of a management pack, download
    • GroupMM; takes a group and puts all the computers in the group, download
    • MP2XMLDUMPER; export MP to XML, download
    • MPTOXML; Converting a sealed management pack to readable XML, download
    • MPViewer; show the contents of a management pack, for example rules, monitors, views, tasks, console tasks and reports, download
    • OpsMgr 2007 Database and Data Warehouse Size Calculator, download
    • Agent Proxy Configuration Tool, download
    • ProxySettings; enabling proxying for agents, download
    • Run As profile configuration helper; configure a RunAs profile for agents in bulk, download
    • Counts and displays the number of security events generated every second, download
    • How to specify which RunAs account to use for a particular RunAs profile on a particular agent, download
    • View and configure the data warehouse data retention policies within your Operations Manager DW, download
    • Utility to view Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 Server/Agent Event logs on a remote computer, download
    • MP Module Explorer; a tool to find a particular module and see its settings and configuration, download
    • OpsMgr Lineage Explorer; a tool allows you to explore the lineage of OpsMgr MP elements, download

     

    Updated HP BladeSystem Management Pack (v1.6.2)

    Updated HP BladeSystem Management Pack, version 1.6.2 is now available

     
    Download the updated HP BladeSystem Management Pack, version 1.6.2 here.


    Version 1.6.2 addresses the following:

    Bug Fixes:
    Fixed the HP BladeSystem Enclosure Monitor Manager to support the regional and language settings on Windows Operating System.
    Fixed the HP BladeSystem Management Pack for Alert Parameter Replacement Failure on Operations Manager 2007 SP1.
    April 01

    Bug in new RSAT tools for Vista SP1

    RSAT and ADUC: Getting the Terminal Services Tabs to Appear in AD Users and Computers
     
    If those acronyms don't mean anything to you, you can skip the rest of this post. Otherwise, please take a look at the blog entry from Net Pyle of the Directory Services Team regarding a bug (and a fix!) in the new RSAT tools for Vista SP1: