[python]

import urllib2
import urllib
import sys

devicedim = ['41941']
deviceoff = ['48839']
deviceon = ['62270']
username = 'admin'
password = 'admin'

topurl = 'http://isy'
passman = urllib2.HTTPPasswordMgrWithDefaultRealm()
passman.add_password(None, topurl, username, password)
authhandler = urllib2.HTTPBasicAuthHandler(passman)
opener = urllib2.build_opener(authhandler)
urllib2.install_opener(opener)

if sys.argv[1] == 'playing':
for devicex in deviceoff:
theurl = 'http://isy/rest/nodes/' + devicex + '/cmd/DOF'
#normalize the URL
theurl = urllib.quote(theurl, safe="%/:=&?~#+!$,;'@()*[]")
print (theurl)
pagehandle = urllib2.urlopen(theurl)
for devicex in devicedim:
theurl = 'http://isy/rest/nodes/' + devicex + '/cmd/DON/64'
#normalize the URL
theurl = urllib.quote(theurl, safe="%/:=&?~#+!$,;'@()*[]")
print (theurl)
pagehandle = urllib2.urlopen(theurl)
elif sys.argv[1] == 'stopped':
for devicex in deviceon:
print (devicex)
theurl = 'http://isy/rest/nodes/' + devicex + '/cmd/DON'
#normalize the URL
theurl = urllib.quote(theurl, safe="%/:=&?~#+!$,;'@()*[]")
print (theurl)
pagehandle = urllib2.urlopen(theurl)
else:
print 'no state given'
[/python]

Usage: [plain]isy-medialights.py playing|stopped[/plain]

[powershell]param($rootMS,$urlName,$minutes,$comment,$reason)
Add-PSSnapin "Microsoft.EnterpriseManagement.OperationsManager.Client" -ErrorVariable errSnapin;

Set-Location "OperationsManagerMonitoring::" -ErrorVariable errSnapin;
new-managementGroupConnection -ConnectionString:$rootMS -ErrorVariable errSnapin;
set-location $rootMS -ErrorVariable errSnapin;

$URLWatcher = (Get-MonitoringClass -name Microsoft.SystemCenter.WebApplication.Perspective) | Get-MonitoringObject | where {$_.DisplayName -eq $urlName}

$startTime = [System.DateTime]::Now
$endTime = $startTime.AddMinutes($minutes)

"Putting URL into maintenance mode"
foreach ($name in $URLWatcher) {
New-MaintenanceWindow -startTime:$startTime -endTime:$endTime -monitoringObject:$name -comment:$comment -Reason:$reason }[/powershell]

Usage:

[bash]C:\WINDOWS\system32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe URLMaintenanceModeV4.ps1 -rootMS: `SCOMRMS1′ -urlName: ‘MSN Website Checker’ -minutes:45 -comment: ‘My Comment’ -reason: ‘PlannedOther’[/bash]

http://www.scom2k7.com/schedule-a-into-url-maintenance-mode/

This article is still under construction.

There are several options for disaster recovery and high availability. There's host based solutions, array based solutions, and virtualization solutions. Which to pick? We're going through a pretty crazy test of products, but we have the same problem as everyone else, we have tons of different storage vendors. So do you pick host based replication solutions, probably not. Do you pick array based solutions, sure, those will work. What about adding another layer of complexity to the solution and add an in-band virtualization solution? Or implement something like EMC RecoverPoint and only worry about replication with one thing, and keep array based solutions for specific tasks? So many things to choose from.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972821

Just add this to your ReportingServicesService.exe.config file in the \ReportServer\bin

[bash]

[/bash]

Place this between the tags:

[bash]
[/bash]

Some important information here:

Reset Health Permission

Goto your user role area for your author group. The "tasks" tab is where you need to add "Flush Health Service State and Cache" task.

Allow viewing the 'overrides' under 'authoring'

You need to allow access to all "views". You can still lock down which machines they view by the "group scope", and "author scope" locks down which targets (or rules/monitors/etc) they can modify).

*I haven't found a way to lock down the views yet. If you know, please let me know!

To perform a remote shutdown:
1. Open Computer Management (Local)
2. In the console tree, right-click Computer Management (Local), and then click Connect to another computer.
3. In the Select Computer dialog box, click Another computer, type the name of the computer that you want to restart or shut down, and then click OK. You can also click Browse to search for the name of the computer.
4. In the console tree, right-click Computer Management (Remote computer name), and then click Properties.
5. On the Advanced tab, click Startup and Recovery.
6. Click Shut Down to open the Shut Down dialog box.
7. Under Action, select the actions you want to perform on the computer to which you are connected.
8. Under Force Apps Closed, select the circumstances under which you want to force applications to close when you shut down or restart the computer, and then click OK.

http://scug.be/blogs/scom/archive/2008/08/18/opsmgr-agent-greyed-out-on-domain-controller.aspx

Update: Looks like these will ship with new systems only starting December (and by new systems, it seems maybe only the FAS-3170s). General availability will come a few months later.

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