A few months ago Microsoft released newer versions of the Windows Server base OS management pack. This version had a good number of improvements, especially in the monitoring of cluster disk and cluster shared volumes. However the pack was still not com…
Had something funny today, with an unsealed management pack failing to import.
It gave an error like so:
The management pack cannot be imported.
Xml failure while validating maangement pack. [Line: 227, Position 18]
hexadecimal value 0x00, is an i…
Lately we have gotten many questions about when the book Mastering System Center 2012 Operations Manager from Sybex would be available. It is great that you all have so much interest in what we are writing about and when you can get your hands on it! B)…
Update Rollup 3 for System Center 2012 has been released today. It contains a number of fixes for SCOM, DPM and SCSM.
KB 2756127 – Description of Update Rollup 3 for System Center 2012 explains the fixed items and the methods to download the updates…
By request, hereby a script which restarts all SCOM 2012 agents in the management group. This is run from for instance a management server. It picks up the names of all agents (not the management servers!) and gets the HealthService of those machines an…
I have been seeing a number of questions where people want to know how to set the agent proxy default setting in SCOM 2012 to enabled.
For instance for SCOM 2007 I had a post which contained a command near the bottom of the post with a simple command t…
Microsoft released a KB article for cases where you get this error while running SCOM 2012 on a single management server:
Operations Manager Error: The All Management Servers Pool has not reported availability
You may also see the following events…
The Infrastructure Planning and Design guides (IPD) are always a great resource when working through designs for implementations of all kinds of products and solutions. CUrrently the team is working on the IPD guide for SCOM 2012.
They have released…
As I explained in the previous post on how to check for CU5 installation on SCOM 2007 R2, the way to check for successfull implementation of Cumulative updates has come up as questions in the community a number of times and I found a need as well to hav…
During the past year I have seen several requests from people in the community on how they can check if their servers have successfully applied a certain Cumulative Update. Lately I had a requirement to create some test scripts to determine if CU5 has b…