How to use the Management Pack Compare Util to identify management pack version differences

infrastructure

In environments with multiple management groups it’s really helpful to be able to quickly identify what management packs are different. I originally blogged on this utility at: https://www.catapultsystems.com/cfuller/archive/2012/08/30/tool-to-quickly-compare-opsmgr-and-service-manager-management-packs-versus-what-is-in-the-catalog-scom-scsm.aspx but I didn’t cover the details of how to use the tool and it took me a few minutes to remember how this worked! As a quick…

Notes on the Dell EqualLogic management pack

infrastructure

I’ve ran into multiple times that I’ve needed to track these notes down so the following are my high level notes on what I’ve seen related to the Dell EqualLogic management pack. Download the software from: http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/systems-management/w/wiki/4120.dell-equallogic-storage-management-pack-suite.aspx It is required to install the main Dell management pack first. You have to discover the network device…

Updated agent and server troubleshooting issues when reporting to an Operations Manager 2012 R2 environment – Part 2

infrastructure

I wasn’t planning on doing a part 2 to this blog post but it turns out that when I originally blogged on this issue at https://www.catapultsystems.com/cfuller/archive/2013/11/01/updated-agent-and-server-troubleshooting-issues-when-reporting-to-an-operations-manager-2012-r2-environment.aspx I thought I had fixed it but I had not. Checking back later in my lab I found that it was not in the state that I had left…