Can someone please help me with the following (one or more) questions regarding SCOM, thanks
1: How can I check All overrides for a given management pack.
For example if I have the SQL management pack installed and over the course of several months various admins have overridden certain rule or monitors settings (hopefully storing the overrides in the same SQL override management pack) how can I list off the overrides for the SQL management pack (even if some of the overrides are no in the SQL override management pack but another unsealed MP). Can I do this with PowerShell and or SQL select statement? If so what are the command pleaseJ
2: Is there a way to get a list of all the ‘subscriptions’ a particular ‘subscriber’ belongs to (and if possible the notification criteria), for example using the console, PowerShell or SQL select statement.
3: If I have three management servers, how to I prevent an agent from failing over the one of the management servers. For example if one of the management servers is being used exclusively for take feeds from a gateway or gateways (and I do not want agents communicating directly with this management server, should the agents normal management server go offline.
4: In a situation where you have a gateway server in the DMZ and you are monitoring say 10 Servers in the DMZ. If these 10 Servers are standalone (e.g. not part of a DMZ only AD Domain for example) e.g. workgroup servers. By dentition as far as I understand it the gateway server will have to use NTLM (not Kerberos) to talk to these workgroup servers e.g. map network drive. As long as the username and password are the same on the gateway server and server in question pass-though authentication would be used to map the drive. However as far as I see from the gateways perspective because these servers are not in a Kerberos ‘realm’ (e.g. AD domain/forest) with the gateway server, each server is going to have to use certificate based SSL to speak with the gateway server individually (e.g. cert per Server). Is this correct please?
5: Let’s say you have a simple Alert Generating Rule which alerts if it sees X event in the application long on say all Windows 2008 R2 Servers. Simply so far, what would happen OperationsManagerDB went offline (as management servers still up). Would notification subscriptions still work e.g. would users still get and email for said alerting rule above. The reason I ask is I had a situation where the DB went offline for a few hours but still getting general alerts as above. I just wanted to understand this chain of events when an agent sends and alert back to its management server, because to some extent I thought an alert had to be written to the database before it could via a notification subscription.
6: What is the correct SQL ‘collation’ for SCOM 2012 R2.
I have seen some debate on the above question over and above the official documentation suggesting a compatible but alternate collation (than the one in the documentation) to help SCOM fit in with SQL collation requirements from other System Center products , in particular SCSM (Service Manager) . For example the following blog
http://blogs.technet.com/b/servicemanager/archive/2012/05/24/clarification-on-sql-server-collation-requirements-for-system-center-2012.aspx
States the following near the end
We will make this simpler going forward and be more progressive in supporting and using the most up to date collations. To do this we will be modifying setup of all the SC components in the next release to require the latest Windows collations available at that time for that version of SQL Server that you are attempting to install on. The collation versions will likely be updated over time by the Windows/SQL Server team so our requirements will stay in lockstep with them. That means for example if when you are installing any component of System Center on SQL Server 2008 in the next release we will require the Latin1_General_100_CI_AS collation for an English system. If you are installing on SQL Server 2012 we will require Latin1_General_110_CI_AS (assuming there is such a thing as _110_ - I don’t know right now). This will only apply to new installations. Upgrade installations will not be subject to this and we will continue to support the older collations for those upgraded databases.
If this still the current recommendation or has it changed (I am thinking of SCOM 2012 R2)
Thanks you very much
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