Testing an Alert proactively
We are wanting to test our web application alerts to make sure they are working without of course taking down those sites.What are the best ways to do this? How are others doing it?We have tried with...
View ArticleSystem Center app connection strings.
Hi,We are looking at moving the System Center set of databases to a next SQL Server cluster.Where can we find out information related to changing the System Center set of connection strings and we they...
View ArticleShould I install an agent on my Management server?
Hi I am all new to SCOM and has just installed my first SCOM server ever (version 2012 SP1). I am wondering if I should install an agent on my Management server itself or does that not make any sense...
View ArticleAgent reconnection AD integrated.
Hi,We have 2k7/2k12 dual homed agents using AD integration for the management groups. What I've been seeing lately is that when a machine is restarted the agent may fail to read info from active...
View ArticleSCOM dashboard cell relationship
I want to create a dashboard to implement following function on SCOM 2012 SP1.Let's start an example. That I have lots of computers in SCOM. and I create some classes,like CPU, memory...I want to...
View ArticleSCOM - Cannot open the Console: The Data Access service is either not running...
Hi.I've run into a brick wall, ANY help would be greatly appreciated. I will mark the solution as the answer a 100 times over!! I am in dire need of assistance please!!I am currently trying to open my...
View ArticleAlert followed by restart services recovery - cmd v script problems
Hi, I am doing a test of a custom service failure/restart in which if one service fails 3 services also need to berestarted one after each other. To do my test I am just stopping the wireless...
View ArticlePorts required for communication from one agent in the DMZ with the...
Hi Folksrecommended way for Microsoft to communicatean Agent in DMZ is using theGTW Server. And there is other ways to make the communication of these agentsthrough certificates.I remember that there...
View ArticleSCOM 2012 Service Level Dashboard seems to have wrong timezone?
I created a service level dashboard in scom 2012 showing service level tracking for a distributed application. I set it to show the last 24 hours, but the time graph at the bottom seems to be wrong....
View ArticleHealthService.exe, trying to terminate McAfee processes.
On one of my servers, i get the following error in the mcAfee logs:18-02-2013 09:03:25 Blocked by Access Protection rule NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM C:\Program Files\System Center Operations...
View ArticleSCOM 2007 R2 and 2012 AD integration coexistence
Hello,I can't find any information on this - or my Goo... I mean Bing-skills are not as good as I thought.We'll be deploying SCOM 2012 SP1 soon (in 10 days) but temporarily we might want to keep some...
View ArticleRaise an alert with specific resolution state
Hello, I want to clasify the alert by priority in a dashboard.Priority field only manage 3 states, informational, warning and critical and I need extra states.I think that the best way to achieve it...
View ArticleSCOM 2012 - How to programmatically get a list of SNMP devices in pending...
I'm using an automated process to discover and delete network devices in SCOM 2012 and for a variety of reasons, I wind up with a fair number of discovery failures.I'd like to programmatically get a...
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SQL 2012 SP1 requirements for fresh install of SCOM 2012 SP1
Three VMs:DC01 - Windows Server 2012, all Windows Updates installedSQL01 - Windows Server 2012 with SQL 2012 SP1, all Windows Updates installed - Instance Name: SCOM2012 - dynamic ports off, firewall...
View ArticleSCOM 2012 SP1 monitoring of Servers that are respawned daily
Hi,I am working on a setup of SCOM 2012 SP1 where I need to monitor Citrix XenApp 6 Servers that are built via a Gold Image and respawned daily.I understand I need to configure Active Directory...
View ArticleSCOM Report for a Specific Alert
I have the Most Common Alerts report... And from there, I want to be able to generate a report on just the #1 most common alert and find all servers that have generated that alert over the period of...
View ArticleHow to monitor JetNexus Load Balancers in SCOM 2012
Hi,How to monitor JetNexus Load Balancers in SCOM 2012 ?Do we have any Management packs? or is there any other way of doing it.Please guide me.Thank youRegardsThamaraisiva
View ArticleMiddle ware- integration
Can we use biztalk for below activity?if yes ,briefe description on each point1.create multiple integration points for a business process 2.weight/Fast track transactions based on multiple dimensions...
View ArticleOM 2012 Console pop up message, "Could not continue scan with NOLOCK due to...
I am having customers report the following pop message in the console, "Could not continue scan with NOLOCK due to data movement." Once you click "ok" you are able to continue your use in the console....
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Restart a server using Recovery option of a monitor
I wish a remote server to restart if an alert is triggered by a monitor.Using the "Configure Recovery Tasks" for the monitor, I have the following inserted:Would someone pls be able to assist as to...
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