Once in a while you will encounter a situation where you will have to uninstall the agent from a command line. For instance if somebody shutdown a SCOM test environment while forgetting to do the uninstall of all agents first. They will all be active an…
Once in a while you will need to remove a management pack. Either because you are no longer monitoring whatever that management pack was for, or a new version of the same management pack requires you to remove the previous version first.
Well removin…
A question that comes up a lot is whether SQL 2008 R2 is supported for SCOM 2007 R2 and what to do while installing a new SCOM installation on that version of SQL.
If you do a fresh installation of SCOM on a SQL 2008 R2 you will find that you cannot…
In a few cases we have seen 1106 events in SCOM environments appearing. You will see those in the operations manager event log from the HealthService with ID 1106. These will have a text referring to RunAs accounts. For instance: Cannot access plain tex…
So you want to do some cross platform monitoring of Linux and Unix clients with SCOM. A very good idea. As mentioned before in Trick 1: Read the product documentation at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb310604.aspx
But in some cases you…
The other day I had been called in to help troubleshoot another case where management servers and agents turned to a grey state. It was a case with a reason I had not seen before so I thought I might mention it here.
What happened was that due to som…
Very often you will see some SCOM agent turn into a grey state. In some cases this can happen to your management server or RMS as well (I hope not!!). This can have several reasons and range from an agent being down or a machine being down to more serio…
Service Principal Names (SPN) are used to uniquely identify an instance of a service. SCOM Services are also registered and mostly everything will be just fine, but in some cases you might have issues with this.
My friend Walter Eikenboom has writte…
In some cases you might require a lot more info from SCOM about what is going on during troubleshooting. In that case you might want to have more diagnostic logging (more verbose). Here is how to use it.
How to use diagnostic tracing in System Center…
In some cases we might open the SCOM console and go into a state view and see old entries there. Devices that have actually gone already. Items that have been discovered before somehow and not being monitored. Assuming that we do not want these monitore…