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SCOM 2012 – Get Agent Failover Management Server

Because of an issue I needed to get the failover management servers of the agents. Well, because I like to fool around with Powershell I thought I would write a short script. Just to give you some background how I figured it out. First I got the members of the Get-SCOMAgent command by typing: Get-SCOMAgent […]

SCOM 2012 – Console Error Microsoft.EnterpriseManagement.Monitoring.Console.exe

There are different ways to install the SCOM console. One way is to install it calling the regular SCOM 2012 setup wizard and choosing the SCOM console option. The other way is executing directly the OMCONSOLE.msi package. The difference is, if you call the regular SCOM setup wizard it will check for pre-requisites. If you […]

SCOM – How Data is Encrypted

Recently I got a question from a customer how SCOM traffic is encrypted. Well, I knew that the traffic IS encrypted, but how the encryption works, that is a different story. First we need to know, about what traffic we are talking about. Is it the communication between agents , respectively healthservices? Is it the […]