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– Nagios + SCOM – Uninstall Nagios Agent remotely using Powershell

I don’t like to clean up very much, but there are certain cases where it really makes fun to clean up. Especially if there a Non-Microsoft product, Powershell and SCOM involved. In my case a customer decided to replace his Nagios system through SCOM 2012. Cool!!! Because Nagios also uses an agent for monitoring, one […]

SCOM 2012 SP1 – “Unable to Proceed” Troubleshooting Upgrade Error

As I already have learned in many ways – Don’t assume anything, proof it! Another rule is – What you see is not always what you get. With those two quotes in mind we have to start troubleshooting in IT. Today I spent quite some time troubleshooting an SCOM SP1 upgrade installation. I wanted to […]

SCOM 2012 – Event ID 7011 Service Control Manager Error

At a customers SCOM infrastructure I faced a very strange problem. The SCOM infrastructure consists of 2 management servers and 1 SQL server. Only one of the management servers stopped in certain time intervals responding to the agents and encountered the following symptoms: All agent computer which had this management server as primary management server […]