When installing Operations Manager in a two server configuration (OpsMgr Management Server on one, SQL databases and reporting on the other) the various databases can be created on remote servers but the “Reporting server” components must be installed on the server with the Reporting components. Don’t check all four of the options below unless you…
The “Install Agent and Certificate on UNIX and Linux Computers Using the Command Line” document available at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh212686.aspx currently states: “Restart the agent by typing sxadmin –restart” (screenshot below) Which is incorrect it should say: “Restart the agent by typing scxadmin –restart” This change has been forwarded to the documentation team is is minor (scxadmin…
During a recent OpsMgr agent deployment we were failing with a message that “The task cannot be executed against the object(s) because the target of the task does not match any of the classes of the object.” Microsoft provided a great wiki on troubleshooting deployment of Unix/Linux agents which pointed me to the solution and…
The following is a summary of the statistics gathered during the deployment of an Operations Manager 2012 agent to a Windows Server 2008 R2 computer system both during the agent deployment and for five minutes after the agent deployment. This summary also provides the statistics gathered monitoring the system agentless in OpsMgr 2012. Testing details:…
Recently I had an opportunity to spend an hour with a group using OpsMgr in my former home-town. We discussed a large variety of OpsMgr focused topics but one specific question that I thought that the community had answered but I wasn’t able to remember where. “How do we identify expiring certificates used in OpsMgr?”…
The following is a quick PowerShell script which uninstalls agents based upon matching a naming convention. This example identifies a unique naming for the servers such as those which are named with “DC” indicating they are a domain controller: (where xyz.com is the name of the domain) Get-SCOMAgent -DNSHostName *DC*.xyz.com | Disable-SCOMAgentProxy $credential = (Get-Credential)…
Topic: xSNMP Download location: http://xsnmp.codeplex.com/ Issues: The NetworkDevice class which xSNMP was built on for OpsMgr 2007 was depreciated in OpsMgr 2012. For a new installation of OpsMgr 2012 this means that xSNMP will NOT work: “In System Center 2012 Operations Manager the Microsoft.SystemCenter.NetworkDevice class is deprecated and should no longer be used. SNMP based…
Answer: Yes, a Gateway can be a member of a resource pool. Screenshots below show the membership of the Operations Manager Gateway Server Computer group followed by the same server highlighted when adding the Gateways to a resource pool. So this means that we could create a resource pool for network devices or a resource…
Open the Operations Manager Console, in the Administration pane under settings and reporting. Copy the URL from this section and paste it with either the http:// or https:// configuration specified on the page. An example of this is shown below:
Marnix Wolf provided an excellent perspective on licensing in System Center 2012 in a series of blog posts – check out the parts below! Part 1: http://thoughtsonopsmgr.blogspot.nl/2012/06/sc-2012-licensing-lets-complify-part-i.html Part 2: http://thoughtsonopsmgr.blogspot.nl/2012/06/sc-2012-licensing-lets-complify-part-ii.html Part 3: http://thoughtsonopsmgr.blogspot.com/2012/06/sc-2012-licensing-lets-complify-part.html Part 4: Not posted yet but hopefully soon at: http://thoughtsonopsmgr.blogspot.com/ Keep up the great blogging Marnix!
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