In SCOM operations we often get the question where a certain alert is. For instance one person is seeing the alert and another person is not seeing it. This might seem like something easy (and it is!!), but I think I get or see one question about this e…

A good number of management packs depend on an agent setting to enable proxy mode. Now this has nothing to do with using a browser to access the internet. This setting basically means that you allow the agent to forward data to the management server on…

Having a number of consoles open places a burden on the RMS server as all consoles connect to the SDK service on the RMS server. This includes web console sessions. So if you have more than a few consoles open continuously you might consider lowering th…

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…