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