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September 2006 - Posts

• MOM MP: Basic Windows Security check

  Due to account policy's we forbid administrators to logon with specific domain admin accounts or with the local administrator accounts. Also wanted was a security audit to lookup or monitor possible attacks. To do this I've written a simple security Read More... Posted Thursday, September 14, 2006 6:36 AM by michel kamp | 1 Comments Filed under: MOM 2005, MOM Management Packs (MP)

• PART 2: Mass MOM rule Editor

  Ok did some coding today. There's the first real build. !!!! Please test it NOT on production ;-) Don't except error handling in this version. The tool is quite easy to understand. 1. Run the exe on you MOM server (with the MOM SDK installed). 2. Press Read More... Posted Thursday, September 07, 2006 9:42 AM by michel kamp | 7 Comments

• PART 1: Mass MOM rule Editor

  OK. I was I a situation that I had about 200 rules that must be disabled. The only way to do this is: 1. By hand one by one with the administrator console 2. Do a non supported SQL update 3. Use the MOM SDK Of course I did step 3. And the MassMomRuleEditor Read More... Posted Wednesday, September 06, 2006 6:09 AM by michel kamp | 1 Comments Filed under: MOM 2005

• MP: Sophos v4

  Yesterday I needed some rules to check Sophos Virus scanner on our corporate network. So I made an first version to monitor Sophos Version 4.x You can Import it into MOM and it will automatic find the sophos enabled servers. See also the Alert and event Read More... Posted Tuesday, September 05, 2006 9:53 AM by michel kamp | 2 Comments Filed under: MOM 2005, MOM Management Packs (MP)

• HOWTO: bulk export / import MOM management packs

  Hi, As a MOM system administrator / consultant I have visited many customers that don't backup the MOM MPs. The say " why? I'm making a SQL onepoint backups , this should do it.... ” Personally I'm not a big pro on restoring the Read More... Posted Friday, September 01, 2006 6:02 AM by michel kamp | 2 Comments