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OpsMgr: Where Are My Events?

Yeah. I know. We’re late to the party. We just got OpsMgr 2012 rolled out. If you want to skip the story time, just go to the TL;DR section. So, one of the first times I opened the console, I realized there were some events I was looking for that I wasn’t able to find. After carefully combing the console (read: frantically clicking on crap) I came to the realization that no matter which event view I chose, it was restricted to one day. After talking with one of my engineers, he suggested looking at this article http://www.opsman.co.za/how-to-search-for-more-then-500-objects-in-the-scom-console-group-and-report-add-objects-fields which seems to be referring to searching objects. It did, however, lead to a very useful registry key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Microsoft Operations Manager\3.0\Console\ConsoleUserSettings I don’t know what most of these settings do and quite frankly don’t want to figure it out. There are, however, two registry values of particular interest:

how to retrieve your ip address with powershell...

update: here is a new method using system.net.dns as noted here : [system.net.dns]::gethostaddresses( "" ).ipaddresstostring   update: this is how it’s performed in powershell v3 as demonstrated here . (get-netadapter | get-netipaddress | ? addressfamily -eq 'IPv4' ).ipaddress   update: this is by far the easiest. PS C:\temp> (gwmi Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration | ? { $_.IPAddress -ne $null }).ipaddress 192.168.1.101     are you laughing yet?  i know you probably find this topic amusing.  it's really interesting though.  whenever you get over it, i'll do this in the standard cmd.exe interpreter and then in powershell to show you what kind of coolness powershell does. done?  okay, good.  this is an interpretation of a demo that bob wells did at our smug meeting.  hope you like it. i should tell you, it's not as simple as the title would lead you to believe.  i like doing that little slight-of-hand thing since it gives the impression