During a recent Operations Manager Unix/Linux agent deployment we were experiencing failures when deploying the agent because sudo could not be found. The details are shown below: Failed during SSH discovery. Exit code: 127 Standard Output: Sudo path: /user/bin/ Standard Error: ksh[11]:/usr/bin/sudo: not found. Resolution: On the systems experiencing the issue add a…
When you install Global Service Monitor (GSM) you choose a resource pool which GSM will use. As part of the installation process you need to install Windows Identity Foundation 3.5 (WIF). In Windows 2012 WIF is added as a feature (Windows Identity Foundation 3.5). It is important to know however that WIF needs to be…
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It’s a significant challenge to be smiling and optimistic when you are spending several hours a day looking out the front windshield of your car and seeing something like this… Add in rain, sleet and snow; and it is next to impossible to keep a smile on your face! (This is why I moved to…
We ran into this recently when attempting to deploy an OpsMgr 2012 SP1 agent to a SUSE Linux system. “One or more errors occurred. Failed to find a matching agent kit to install.” When browsing to the DownloadedKits folder on the management server (c:\program files\System Center 2012\Operations Manager\Server\AgentManagement\UnixAgents\DownloadKits) we found that there were no SUSE…
To develop a locally available OpsMgr environment on my laptop, I recently installed OpsMgr 2012 SP1 on an all-in-one configuration running on Windows Server 2012 and using SQL Server 2012 (hey, if you are going to build an all-in-one for something might as well try the latest and greatest of everything!). I was attempting the…
The new GSM monitoring functionality in Operations Manager 2012 SP1 is really interesting, but when something goes wrong it’s difficult to troubleshoot what is occurring. When you configure your subscription for GSM, you specify a resource pool which will perform this function (as shown below). This means that any member of the pool can be…
During some testing at a recent client engagement, we were going through the process upgrading from Operations Manager 2007 R2 CU6 to Operations Manager 2012 SP1 UR1. When we loaded the media for OpsMgr 2012 SP1 it stated that there were no products installed which could be upgraded. With a little digging and second perspectives…
It appears it’s been a little too long since I’ve worked on Configuration Manager. Yes, this is a 100 level issue but it bit me so I’m going to blog it so I remember it for the next time and in case others hit the same thing that I did. I ran into a situation…
This is my last post on System Center 2012 and Azure… This is it – I swear! During my investigating into the various integration points between System Center 2012 and Azure I found there there are a lot of areas where these products integrate. I see both of these products as important to Microsoft and…
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