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SCOM 2012 – Encryption Key To Backup Or Not To Backup

Once in a time there comes the question about the encryption key in SCOM 2012 (SP1). Older SCOM administrators were used to backup their SCOM encryption key using the SecureStorageBackup.exe utility in SCOM 2007 R2. This encryption key is essential for restoring a SCOM 2007 R2 RMS server. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc540390.aspx The root management server encryption key […]

SMA – Error “Root element is missing”

While I was building SMA runbooks in the past couple of months I bumped into this rather strange error. So happen few days ago, I tried to call (invoke) a child runbook, from a parent runbook function. SMA returned an error “Root element is missing” I simplified the structure so it looks like this… Function […]

SCOM 2012 Linux Monitoring (Lab) – Part 1 Setup SUSE 11.1

This time I wanted to try LINUX monitoring using SCOM 2012. It has been a long time since I used to setup a LINUX system and it took me a short time to remember all the basic commands. Although you don’t need that much shell hacking but it always helps if you know at least […]