Operations Manager is used to identify conditions that occur and provide notification if those conditions take place. Generically speaking, the concept of monitoring is “Watch my back (uh, environment), and let me know what’s going on.” Monitoring with OpsMgr allows us to react to situations more quickly than we would otherwise. Once we are aware of an issue, OpsMgr can provide product knowledge to help us more quickly resolve the problem. The user community also assists with problem solving – there are numerous articles and blogs discussing the use of the product.
One approach to problem solving, developed by my coauthor Cameron Fuller, is the ResearchThis! management pack. This management pack provides a shared community-based knowledge repository residing at www.systemcenterforum.org for OpsMgr 2007, System Center Essentials, and MOM 2005. The management pack is available in two versions – one for OpsMgr 2007/System Center Essentials, the other in MOM 2005 akm format. You can share your solutions with the community and run tasks that search the SystemCenterRepository for solutions provided by others.
You can download the management pack from System Center Forum’s Community Management Pack catalog, or directly from https://systemcenterforum.org/wp-content/uploads/ReSearchThisOpsMgr.zip (OpsMgr, Essentials) or https://systemcenterforum.org/wp-content/uploads/ReSearchThisMOM.zip (MOM 2005).
For additional information, see https://www.systemcenterforum.org/news/research-this/.
