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My experience upgrading to OpsMgr R2 RTM
I upgraded my test lab from SP1 to R2-RTM this weekend. My current test lab consists of the following servers: OMRMS – Server 2003 - RMS role OMMS3 – Server 2008 - MS role, Web Console OMMS – Server...
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How to force the Web Console to open a specific view, instead of the default...
When you open the Web Console – the default view will open to a “Monitoring Overview” pane. This view, in very large environments, can take considerable time to finish loading, before you can select...
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Common Issues with the OpsMgr Web Console
This post is a collection of the most common issues and resolutions I see with the SCOM 2007 R2 Web Console: Windows Auth on a non RMS. The most common issue is typically where customers install the...
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My experience upgrading to OpsMgr R2 RTM
I upgraded my test lab from SP1 to R2-RTM this weekend. My current test lab consists of the following servers:OMRMS – Server 2003 - RMS roleOMMS3 – Server 2008 - MS role, Web ConsoleOMMS – Server 2003...
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How to force the Web Console to open a specific view, instead of the default...
When you open the Web Console – the default view will open to a “Monitoring Overview” pane. This view, in very large environments, can take considerable time to finish loading, before you can select...
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Common Issues with the OpsMgr Web Console
This post is a collection of the most common issues and resolutions I see with the SCOM 2007 R2 Web Console: Windows Auth on a non RMS. The most common issue is typically where customers install the...
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OpsMgr 2012: Web Console issue immediately after upgrade to SP1
Had an interesting call with a customer. He had a working SCOM 2012 RTM environment, and applied SP1, and the service pack upgrade appeared to immediately break the web console with the following...
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System Center Universe is coming – January 19th!
REGISTER NOW HERE: http://www.systemcenteruniverse.com/ Read Cameron Fuller’s blog post on this here:...
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UR8 for SCOM 2012 R2 – Step by Step
NOTE: I get this question every time we release an update rollup: ALL SCOM Update Rollups are CUMULATIVE. This means you do not need to apply them in order, you can always just apply the latest...
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Writing a service recovery script – Cluster service example
I had a customer request the ability to monitor the cluster service on clusters, and ONLY alert when a recovery attempt failed. This is a fairly standard request for service monitoring when we use...
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UR9 for SCOM 2012 R2 – Step by Step
NOTE: I get this question every time we release an update rollup: ALL SCOM Update Rollups are CUMULATIVE. This means you do not need to apply them in order, you can always just apply the...
View ArticleRemoving / Migrating old Management Servers to new ones
This is a common practice for rotating old physical servers coming off lease, or when moving VM based management servers to a new operating system. There are some generic instructions on TechNet...
View ArticleEvent 18054 errors in the SQL application log – in SCOM 2012 R2 deployments
I wrote about this issue for SCOM 2007 here:...
View ArticleAlert Lifecycle Management
Sometimes – this is almost a dirty word in some companies. It is applying an ITSM process around monitoring, to ensure alerts are real, actionable, assigned, accountable, and reportable. In my...
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The impact of moving databases in SCOM
I recently had an interesting customer issue. We were deploying a new management group to do some performance testing of the impact to SCOM performance as we scale up agents. This particular...
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Windows 10 Client MP’s are available
Download here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=51189 The client OS MP’s are available when you need to monitor Windows clients in your SCOM management group. These...
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Base OS MP’s have been updated – version 6.0.7303.0
***WARNING*** There are some significant issues in this release of the Base OS MP, I do not recommend applying this one until an updated version comes out. Issues: Cluster Disks on Server 2008R2...
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Exchange 2013 Addendum MP – for Exchange 2013 and 2016
The Exchange 2013 MP has been released for some time now. The current version at this writing is 15.0.666.19 which you can get HERE This MP can be used to discover and monitor Exchange Server...
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How to generate an alert and make it look like it came from someone else
This capability has been around forever, but I have never seen it documented. This is a really cool way to generate alerts as if they came from other agents, but target a different agent. Suppose a...
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How to remove OMS and Advisor management packs
When testing OMS (Previously called Advisor) with SCOM, there is one side effect: Once connected, the OMS rules import management packs into your management group with no notification or change...
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