MOM 2005 How-To Guides
Below you will find a listing of great MOM guides courtesy of MOMResources.org and the MOM community. They will take you step by step through MOM tasks that range in difficulty from novice to professional. In addition to these custom guides, we have a list of How-To articles on the Microsoft HERE.
| Date Added | Task | Description | Category |
| 10/16/06 | How to update custom fields on MOM alerts | A walkthrough for implementing a custom script to populate custom fields on MOM alerts with computer information retrieved from Active Directory. | MOM Admin |
| 10/09/06 | How to automate MOM Mgmt Pack Backups | A walkthrough for implementing a custom script to automate mgmt pack backup and archival. | MOM Admin |
| 8/11/06 | Maintenance Mode Tools & Strategies | A walkthrough of the various scripts and utilities for managing maintenance mode on your servers. | MOM Admin |
| 8/2/06 | Process Monitoring Without Custom Scripts | A tutorial illustrating how to leverage the WMI Provider in MOM 2005 to monitor Windows processes without the need for custom scripts | Windows Monitoring |
| 7/27/06 | Implementing Custom Scripts | A tutorial for providing step-by-step guidance in implementing custom scripts and the associated event rules in MOM 2005. | MOM Admin |
| 04/24/06 | Create a Custom Event Report | A tutorial for creating your first MOM report with Visual Studio. | Reporting |
| 04/24/06 | Create a Custom Performance Graph Report | A tutorial for creating a MOM report in Visual Studio incorporating graphical elements. | Reporting |
| 04/24/06 | Monitor a Single Line Logfile | Guidance on configuration of providers and rules for parsing application text logs for occurrence of desired strings. | Monitoring |
| 04/24/06 | Create a Task to Display SP / Hotfixes | Steps for configuring a custom Operator Console Task to that will return the service pack and hotfixes installed on an agent-managed computer. | Ops Console |
| 04/24/06 | How to Change Any Password in MOM | Instructions for changing most any MOM or MOM-related password. | MOM Admin |
| 04/24/06 | Consolidating Duplicate Events | A short article outlining how to configure consolidation rules and how they work. | MOM Admin |
| 04/24/06 | Event Filtering with Regular Expressions | Guidance on how to incorporate regular expressions into MOM event rules to filter unwanted events from generating alerts. | MOM Admin |
| 04/24/06 | Tracking Database Growth | This T-SQL script creates a stored procedure and SQL table in the master database. Can be scheduled to run daily to provide data for growth trend reports. | MOM Admin |
| 04/24/06 | Interactive Remote Command Prompt Task | Steps for configuring a custom Operator Console Task to that will lauch a command prompt focused on a remote machine. Requires PSEXEC from sysinternals.com. | MOM Admin |
| 04/24/06 | Task to Capture Process Memory Utilization | Steps for configuring a custom Operator Console Task to that will return the memory utilization (process\private bytes) for all processes running on an agent-managed computer. | MOM Admin |
| 04/24/06 | Recover from Extended DTS Failures | Guidance on how to resolve and recover from failures in the nightly SystemCenterReporting DTS package. | MOM Admin |
| 05/30/06 | Notification Workflow 2.1 Quickstart Guide | Streamlined, step-by-step guide for successful deployment of the Notification Workflow Solution Accelerator. | MOM Admin |
| 04/24/06 | Setting and Using MOM State Variables | How to configure a MOM response to update a state variable. | MOM Admin |
| 04/24/06 | Create Custom Task to Launch WMI Script | Steps for configuring a custom Operator Console Task to launch a WMI scripts. | MOM Admin |
| 04/24/06 | Monitoring OU Creation | Event rule configuration for monitoring creation of OU's in Active Directory | Security - AD |
| 04/24/06 | Monitoring OU Permissions Changes | Event rule configuration for monitoring changes to OU's in Active Directory | Security - AD |
| 04/24/06 | Audit Logon Events | Event rule configuration for auditing logon failures in Windows Security Event Log. | Security - AD |
| 04/24/06 | Monitoring OU Changes | Event rule configuration for monitoring changes to OU's in Active Directory | Security - AD |
| 04/24/06 | Auditing security events with a repeat window | Explanation of the use of consolidation rules to audit noteworthy events in Windows Security Event Log while controlling the volume of alerts generated. | Security - Windows |
| 04/26/06 | View Computers Requiring reboot in Ops Console | Illustrates use of computer attributes to create a group to review all computers requiring a reboot as a result of patch updates. | Windows Admin |
| 5/2/06 | How to backup Windows Event Logs with MOM | Steps through backing up Windows Event Logs with MOM via a response script. | Windows Admin |
| 5/11/06 | Expose MSFT_Alert Problemstate attribute in WMI | This document explains the process of modifying the MOM WMI namespace to make this parameter accessible via WMI, normally only available in the MOM .NET class library. | MOM Admin |
| 5/12/06 | Step by Step MOM to MOM Product Connector | This document explains the process of setting up a MOM to MOM connector. | MOM Admin |
| 5/26/06 | How to change default range in MOM Reports | This document explains the process of changing the default date range populated in MOM Reports. | MOM Admin |