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SCOM 2012 Agent Failover – An Event Log Check

Sometimes we need a sign to check that some things happen . For me I wanted to visualize and verify if a SCOM agent failed over properly or not. As you might know the Windows agents do not report to a SCOM 2012 resource pool. If you install an agent on a Windows server the […]

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 […]

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…