When you are deploying SCOM agents to many servers from a test or prod environment, it could happen that a server administrator steps up to you and tells you that he has many strange event log entries which are probably from SCOM. Like in this example here…
Troubleshooting
SCOM 2012 – Console Crash On Windows 7 x86 (32-bit)
Today I ran into an issue which I would like to share. The customer had Windows 7 clients fresh and nicely installed including SCOM 2012 SP1 console. Every time we tried to start the SCOM 2012 SP1 console Windows Error Reporting (WER) would kick in and the console crashed. The clients had Windows 7 32-bit […]
SCOM – “Alert subscription data source module encountered errors while running”
Life is like a box of chocolates you never know what you are gonna get. This famous sentence is very true for the IT business also. Recently I had been configuring subscription using a PowerShell script and command channel for a customer environment. The day after, the customer called, that he has lots of alerts […]
SCOM 2012 – Performance View “Rotate Chart” Selected, How To Get Back
If you are in the SCOM console and you choose a performance view, you are able to select “Rotate Chart”…. …this will give you a kind of 3D view of your chart. Well, yes it does something, and you can do something with it, but in my opinion it is useless. Because you can move […]
SCOM 2012 – SNMP Traps, How The Heck Do I Get It Working?
In this post I would like to share some know-how and my personal experience, because I have seen it so many times in the forums and other blogs which had trouble getting SNMP Traps working in SCOM 2012. The difference between SCOM 2007 R2 and SCOM 2012 (R2) in terms of network monitoring is, that […]
Quick Post – SCOM Script Monitor Customizing Alert Name
This time I needed to build a two-state script monitor to test several file shares for availability. The script works in multiple steps… Try to access the shared folder Create a file within the share Check if the file exists Delete the file If one of the tests above would fail, we need to get […]
Quick Post – SCOM An account specified in the Run As profile Microsoft.SystemCenter.Omonline.OutsideIn.RunAsProfile…
During a recent install of SCOM the health state of 4 management servers turned suddenly to critical and the 2 others stayed healthy. The setup consists of totally 6 management servers split up into 3 Resource Pools (Windows, Unix/Linux, Network/SNMP) and several gateway servers. It was somewhat suspicious, because for a long time the management […]
SQL Server – Gain Easy Sysadmin Access (!)
Today I had a very cool idea, which I like to share. A customer of mine had trouble with his SQL Server 2008 R2. Because of that, he needed to open SQL Server Management Studio for troubleshooting and then he realized that he was not able to login into SQL server neither with his domain […]
SCOM – Linux Agent Deployment “Signed certificate verification operation was not successful”
Today I ran into a problem which is not new to SCOM cross-platform monitoring but since this problem will hit you sooner or later it makes sense to write about it. This issue applies to all SCOM versions. It could well be that when you are deploying SCOM agents to your UNIX/Linux server you will […]
SCOM 2012 – Get Rule / Monitor Details For Corresponding Workflow Name
Sometimes you receive alerts from SCOM which contain a lot of content in the description. For example in certain cases you receive alert like this… In this description you see the workflow name Microsoft.Windows.Server.2008.NetworkAdapter.PercentBandwidthUsedTotal.Collection. In some cases it is more difficult to figure out a bit more about a workflow and using the GUI search […]