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New Post: Install on VS 2010

wloeffler — Thu, 05 May 2011 18:04:08 GMT

Hi kasou, To my knowledge there are no plans for a TSMMD release on VS 2010.

-Bill

New Post: Install on VS 2010

kasou — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 13:12:44 GMT

Is there a release for installing on VS 2010? :-)

New Post: Filename or path too long

bobmarty — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 18:12:25 GMT

I had the similiar problem and finally I found solution:

www.tooLongPath.com

New Post: Is this project Dead?

nanderto — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:52:14 GMT

Does anyone still think this is good guidence? Are there any alternatives that we should be looking at?

Noel

New Post: Installing TSSMD V2.2 on VS 2008 Team Suite

wloeffler — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 22:07:18 GMT

Hi Tim,

Sorry for the long delay responding to your message.

There actually was a minor bug in the installer that was fixed in an update that was unfortunatly was not released. The workaround is to install the VS SDK.

Actually the DSL runtime is what is part of Visual Studio. The design time is still part of the Visual Studio SDK.

For Guidance Automation see:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/teamsystem/aa718949.aspx

-Bill

New Post: Performance Counter issues

wloeffler — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 22:02:32 GMT

Hi John,

Thanks for the feedback. I have included your feedback into our tracking database in the event the project (or similar one) should come to be.

Regarding your feedback this initial release of the tool was intended to demonstrate to overall use of Health Modeling tools in the software development lifecycle. The focus is therefore on breadth rather than depth in each or the disciplines that TSMMD covers.

-Bill

New Post: Is this project Dead?

wloeffler — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 21:57:23 GMT

Hi Noel,

Unfortunately the patterns & practices group ended further investment in the Design for Operations program and specifically in the TSMMD tool and associated guidance. All of the original team members have moved on to other projects. I will try to dedicate time next week to catch up on the forum topics however it’s a in my spare time basis.

-Bill

New Post: Is this project Dead?

nanderto — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 21:08:57 GMT

Is this project Dead. There have been no responses forth coming from the Development team for months now. Is the guidance also dead?

thanks
Noel

New Post: Performance Counter issues

jptasznik — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 19:24:48 GMT

Hi,

For the most part I like the tools, but it does a very bad job generating helper code for Performance counters.

Specifically it does a bad job of generating code for counters that require a base counter.

For example if I add the two required performance counters AverageTimer, AverageBase to a Measure and then generate the code.

1. The default implementation should have the incrementBy adds the passed in value for both, but it should add it to AverageTimer and only increment the AverageBase.

2. It does not always add the AverageTimer and AverageBase in the installer in the correct order, in needs to always put the AverageTimer first and then AverageBase.

3. It is annoying that it does not allow spaces in the category names for performance counters in the tool.

On all of theses I can manually massage the code and over come them, but it seems to be it should do all of them in the generated code.

On a side note it is kind of annoying to have to delete all the generated code before being able to generate new code. It means having to manually massage the code again and the output paths as we want them dumped to a central lib directory so that our actual code in the main project can use assembly references to avoid having it add them back.

Thank you and keep improving the tools,

John

New Post: Installing TSSMD V2.2 on VS 2008 Team Suite

timdaley — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 16:05:10 GMT

http://www.codeplex.com/dfo/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=16280

indicates:

TSMMD requires Visual Studio 2008 Team System and the Guidance Automation Extensions (GAX) V1.4.

I have installed VSTS 2008 Verwion 9.0.21022.8 RTM. When I try to install TSSMD-Setup-August_2008.msi, I get the message:

"This installer requires Visual Studio Software Development Kit 2008 which is not present on the computer."

My understanding is that this SDK is include in VSTS 2008.

Also, I can only find GAX 1.3.1.

New Post: How to create a database?

yysun — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 15:26:44 GMT

Hi,

Using TSMMD 2.2, I could not find database from the toolbox. How to model an ASP.NET Web application with an back-end database?

Thanks,

yysun

New Post: Installation of Documentation for TSMMD incorrect on x64

calvinandhobbes — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 23:32:30 GMT

When you install on Vista x64, the shortcut for the documentation for TSMMD is incorrect. This is what is created:
"%CommonProgramFiles%\Microsoft Shared\Help 9\dexplore.exe" /helpcol ms-help://MS.VSCC.v90/MS.VSIPCC.v90/ms.practices.tsmmd.2008august /LaunchFKeywordTopic tsmmd2008august.introduction /filter "Team System Management Model Designer Power Tool - August 2008"

%CommonProgramFiles% should be %CommonProgramFiles(x86)%, but the problem with that is it is too long for shortcut text, so you can't enter it. To make it work I had to remove the /filter parameter. That way at least the documentation will launch.

Regards,
Thomas

New Post: Exactly what is the Managed Entity Property IISApplicationName

nanderto — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 19:00:39 GMT

I have searched though the documentation and I am unsure exactly which name should be entered into this parameter, it seems this is important for the discovery of the instrumentation bu the monitoring tool. For example I want to host serveral WCF services in IIS. Do I have to choose the "Web Site Name"? Are we restricted to modeling by web site or can I set up an application in that web site and use the Application name displayed on the properties page in the IIS console? Is this even the correct value or is it the value of the virtual directory? Your tool has validation rules for example no "." or spaces but IIS does not care about either of these rules so i am unsure if either of these are the corect values. If it is the application name then i am curous why we need these rules.
I have the same question about the ServiceName. If I host multiple WCF services in a windows service can i only enter the name of the service or can i model each service separately, and if i do what exactly is the ServiceName for each managed entity?

Thanks

NEW POST: Enterprise Library Performance Counter

David — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 16:20:04 GMT

I think the TSMMD will be a perfect tool to fill the gap between developers and Operators. Since developer can create a management pack without any SCOM knowledge.

But it is still very limited since it is not possible to monitor an Enterprise Library Performance counter (e.g. # of Exceptions Handled/Sec) since it contains "illegal characters" for the Tool.
And also It would be really helpful to indicate which instance to monitor (since each instance may mean a different managed entity).

NEW POST: Only 1 event per health state?

David — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:52:35 GMT

Another work around could be to create an abstract Event (e.g. called Green State Event) that has many "Configurable Implementations".
Assign to the "Green State Event" all the event logs that will make the application go to Green.

NEW POST: Bounds in measure formula overlapping?

sgrummesgaard — Tue, 20 May 2008 08:05:23 GMT

I have created an aspect on performance counters. My states are as following:

Green state:
Lower bound: (empty)
Upper bound: 1

Yellow state:
Lower bound: 2
Upper bound: 5

Red state:
Lower bound: 6
upper bound: (empty)

When validating this I get the following error:

Model Validation : Bounds in measure formula for aspect "WorkItemUpdates" are invalid. When three states are defined, the upper bound of the first state must be equal to the lower bound of the second state and the upper bound of the second state must be equal to the lower bound of the third state. Other bounds must be empty.

One way to fix this is to set Yellow Lower bound to 1 and Red Lower bound to 5. As I read the description of the lower and upper bound fields, these values are included in the interval.

Then my question is: If my performance counter has value 1 (or 5), which state is my health in?

Br,
Søren

NEW POST: State or Abstraction in instrumentation helper classes

sgrummesgaard — Tue, 20 May 2008 07:41:16 GMT

I am missing the opportunity to keep state in the generated instrumentation helper classes, or some abstraction (interfaces, abstract classes).

An example: Let’s say you have a web application and a health definition with an aspect looking at database connectivity. Each request coming in to the web application grabs a connection from the pool. If this fails a ConnectionFailed event is raised, which makes OpsMgr enter into Red Health State. If getting a connection was a success I raise a ConnectionEstablish event – this way it will go from Red to Green Health State.
But if we are already in a Green Health State I don’t really want to know that a connection was established – It would spam my event log if the number of requests is high enough.

If I somehow could keep state in my instrumentation helper classes so it would only raise events when necessary, that is, when Health state is changed (maybe redirecting “unnecessary” events to a log file instead).

Now this is probably too specific to put into the helper classes and I think it would be fine if I were to write this myself. But it would require some abstraction on the helper classes which I don’t find (otherwise I would have to rewrite whenever changing the health definition), see also http://www.codeplex.com/dfo/Thread/View.aspx?ThreadId=25183 (I am looking at v2.1)

What's your opinion on this?

Br,
Søren

NEW POST: Issues with the generated code

RyanRoberts — Mon, 19 May 2008 13:51:56 GMT

The subversion issue turned out to be a problem with visual svn's vs 2008 integration and GAX. I'll take a look at 2.1 as soon as I get a chance, most of our experience with 2.0 has been very positive.

NEW POST: Empty toolbox

sgrummesgaard — Thu, 15 May 2008 14:07:26 GMT

Solved...

I reset my toolbox, and selected the "ManagementInstaller" in Choose Toolbox Items.
That did the trick.

Br,
Søren

sgrummesgaard wrote:
I just "upgraded" (uninstalled - installed) feb08 CTP to apr08 CTP of TSMMD

My toolbox is completely empty (only has an empty General group). I can see a lot has moved into Wizards, and I managed to create a managed enty and an external managed entity. Now I want to connect these, but can't select the Connector tool as described in the walkthrough.

I tried "choose items" on the toolbox, but couldn't find any relevant file to add. Is there an installation problem or am I doing something wrong?

Br,
Søren

NEW POST: Empty toolbox

sgrummesgaard — Thu, 15 May 2008 13:57:35 GMT

I just "upgraded" (uninstalled - installed) feb08 CTP to apr08 CTP of TSMMD

My toolbox is completely empty (only has an empty General group). I can see a lot has moved into Wizards, and I managed to create a managed enty and an external managed entity. Now I want to connect these, but can't select the Connector tool as described in the walkthrough.

I tried "choose items" on the toolbox, but couldn't find any relevant file to add. Is there an installation problem or am I doing something wrong?

Br,
Søren