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…
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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…
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…
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…
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…