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Feeling lucky today?. Due to a feet operation I’m in recovery at home. So my mind was spinning to do something. I was always wondering why there wasn’t a ORACLE management pack for MOM. Of course you could buy one form Netiq example , but the complete version will have more overhead that you want (I tried it). No I want a FREE and ...

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 management pack. That collects all security events and generate alerts when a ...

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 is born.  I'm still working on it ...

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 view. In this version I have only enabled the most critical event rules.   You are ...

MOM 2005 MOBILE PHONE OPERATOR CONSOLE   Yesterday I’ve managed to get the mom mobile phone console working. So what you say… Ok look at the source . It is in Chinese language and Microsoft says the wont bring out an English version. . After what testing I figured out that you can change it to English easily.  Because they ...

MOM 2000/2005 WAP Operator Console is born. Past week I had a great idea. We are now sending SMS alerts to our standby phone. This is working O.K but the problem was that the standby operator was getting multiply SMS parts because the alert message was longer than 160 chars. I had to figure out to get a fast and costless solution for this. I ...

Sorry , only in Dutch. Use AltaVista's Babelfish to translate 1.1          Installatie SNMP op de MOM management server   Voor dat SNMP in combinatie met MOM gebruikt kan worden op Windows 2003 moet er een aantal onderdelen geïnstalleerd en geconfigureerd worden. SNMP in combinatie met MOM werkt via een WMI interface.  In het kort is de ...

spotted on: http://blogs.technet.com/momteam/archive/2005/07/03/407231.aspx   Automatically Refreshing the Perf View in the MOM console Quite a few customers have asked 'Why doesn’t the performance view automatically refresh like the other views in the operator console?''  This is a great question.  There are basically ...

Spotted on : http://blogs.technet.com/momteam/archive/2005/08/03/408629.aspx Take Control of your MOM 2005 Operator Console Experience with .omc Files The MOM 2005 Operator Console has a great hidden feature most people don't know about - .omc files!  A .omc file is a file which stores your personalization settings for the console ...

Quote: We have many SQL 2000 server, that is not setup as a distributor or a publisher. It is not involved in replication. we we have been seeing a bunch of connections on the server from user NT AUTHORITY/SYSTEM application SQLDMO executing exec sp_helpdistpublisher @check_user = 1 a number of times. Why would it be doing that, ...