I assume you have already deployed SCOM and you are monitoring Linux or another kind of UNIX derivate. If you are new to cross platform monitoring I recommend my older blog posts in the Xplat category . SCOM uses certificates to communicate with the Linux/UNIX agent. These certificates are signed by a randomly chosen management […]
Troubleshooting
SCOM 2012 SP1 – Upgrading Linux Agent From SCOM 2007 R2
This week I was working for an international customer. The customer had a SCOM 2007 R2 CU5 infrastructure installed on Windows 2008 R2 SP1 servers with ~800 Windows agents and ~250 Unix based agents which they were going to migrate to SCOM 2012 SP1 UR2 installed on Windows Server 2012 in a side-by-side scenario. Because […]
SCOM 2012 SP1 – Publish Visio Dashboard in SharePoint 2010 Walkthrough
There are many posts including TechNet article about publishing Visio dashboards in SharePoint 2010 using the Microsoft Visio 2010 and SharePoint 2010 Extensions for System Center 2012 . I found most of these article have a lack of information either the posts are for SCOM 2007 R2 or they do not cover the SharePoint side […]
SCOM – Role Permission For Scheduled Reports
Depending on the SCOM role you are using you might need to give the user the ability to see and run scheduled reports. For example you add the user into the SCOM Operator role in addition you create Report Operator role and you assign this Report Operator role permission for Reporting Services. Marnix Wolf has […]
SCOM – SCOM Console Empty Report Pane
Today I bumped into an interesting issue. The customer needed to restrict access to the SCOM environment a SCOM Operator role and in addition access to the SCOM reports in the console. Therefore I created the SCOM Operator role with the needed permission and I also created a Report Operator role and added the user […]
Quick Post – SCOM 2012 R2 New Windows Service Names
Actually I was looking for some other things in SCOM 2012 R2 as I suddenly noticed some interesting naming convention of the SCOM services… Until SCOM 2012 Sp1 the Windows services on the management server were named like this… In SCOM 2012 R2 the Windows services on the management server are named like this…
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 […]
Quick Post – Import-SCOMManagementPack : The requested management pack is not valid. See inner exception for details.
I have seen in the forum there are some difficulties using the Import-SCOMManagementPack cmdlet for SCOM 2012. Some time ago I wrote a post about how to import multiple MPs using Import-SCOMManagementPack. If you try to import just one MP you might get a meaningless error in PowerShell like this…
SCOM – Agentless Exception Monitoring (AEM) – FAQ
Agentless Exception Monitoring (AEM) is an older technology which has been around since a few years now. First it started off as Desktop Error Monitoring as a part of the MDOP kit and later on it has been implemented into SCOM and since then it exists as a feature until SCOM 2012 SP1. This post […]
SCOM – SQL Server Event ID 28005, AEM Wizard Runs Forever, Reporting Services Not Working
I like to automate things, creating batches and scripts. Well at least I like to create them myself and then I know what they do. In a small project I needed to install SCOM 2012 SP1 to show Agentless Exception Monitoring. Because larger environment need a managed way to install IT systems identically they often […]