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Critical Update 06/29/2012: Installation/Configuration and Tuning the Exchange 2010 management pack (#SCOM, #Exchange, #SYSCTR, #PowerShell)

infrastructureBy Cameron Fuller June 29, 2012

Critical Update: On June 27th the Exchange Management pack was removed from the catalog and a blog post of explanation was provided by the Exchange team on the 28th which is available at: http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2012/06/28/mailboxes-on-a-database-are-quarantined-in-an-environment-with-system-center-operations-manager.aspx The synopsis is if you have the Exchange MP version above, it’s critical to first identify if you have quarantined mailboxes.…

QuickTricks: Identifying Windows 2003 servers without OU information requiring a hotfix (#SCOM, #SYSCTR)

infrastructureBy Cameron Fuller June 28, 2012

During a recent client engagement, we needed to create groups based upon Organizational Unit (OU). We found that our Windows 2008 servers were identified correctly as members of the group but the Windows 2003 servers in the same OU were not showing up as members of the group. Digging on the web we found that…

Catapult Systems Wins System Center Partner of the Year!

infrastructureBy Cameron Fuller June 25, 2012

I am extremely proud to say that I just saw the notice that Catapult Systems has won System Center Partner of the year! Well done to all of my colleagues for all of their hard work which made this possible! Check out the official announcement at: https://www.catapultsystems.com/About/News/Articles/Pages/Catapult-Microsoft-Systems-Management-Partner-of-the-Year.aspx

OpsMgr 2012 Installation in a two server configuration (#SCOM, #SYSCTR)

infrastructureBy Cameron Fuller June 25, 2012

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…

Minor issue with the “Install Agent and Certificate on UNIX and Linux Computers Using the Command Line” documentation (#SCOM, #SYSCTR)

infrastructureBy Cameron Fuller June 23, 2012

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…

Error deploying OpsMgr agent to RedHat (#SCOM, #SYSCTR)

infrastructureBy Cameron Fuller June 22, 2012

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…

OpsMgr 2012 resource requirements and usage recommendations for Agent and Agentless monitoring (#SCOM)

infrastructureBy Cameron Fuller June 22, 2012

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:…

OpsMgr certificate expiration (#SCOM, #SYSCTR)

infrastructureBy Cameron Fuller June 22, 2012

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?”…

QuickTricks: How to bulk uninstall agents in OpsMgr 2012 by name in PowerShell (#SCOM, #PowerShell, #SYSCTR)

infrastructureBy Cameron Fuller June 21, 2012

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)…

Does-It-Work-In-OM12? xSNMP Management Packs (#SCOM, #SYSCTR)

infrastructureBy Cameron Fuller June 21, 2012

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…

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