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Fixing Citrix WMI errors 0x80041001 / 0x80041002 – XenApp 6

I am sure during your Operations Manager career you already faced some WMI errors while installing e.g. Active Directory or XenApp management packs. A few days ago I installed the XenApp 6.0 MP in SCOM 2007 R2. Suddenly errors 0x80041001 and 0x80041002 appeared in Active Alerts view. WMI errors are always kind of pain in […]

Not monitored Domain Controllers still showing under Windows Computers – Active Directory MP DiscoverAgentOnly

If you are monitoring Active Directory in a multi-domain environment you might only want to monitor certain domain controller because you don’t have the administrative sovereignty nor any permission to access the other systems.In that case you probably installed the SCOM agents to your domain controllers and imported the Active Directory management pack. If so […]

SCOM 2007 R2 CU2 – Deploy Agent to Sun Solaris 10 Zone (SPARC)

Today I had a kind of emergency operation to complete. The customer needed a pre-prod Solaris 10 environment monitored with SCOM 2007 R2. The purpose was to get an idea what he could do and to show other teams what it looks like. There was just one small hitch it had to be now (as […]