One of my clients recently asked me a very reasonable question that I had not considered yet. Can a crossplat agent be multihomed in OpsMgr? As background in OpsMgr a Windows agent can be multihomed to up to four different management groups (meaning the same agent can report to four different OpsMgr management groups). Some…
I originally blogged on this for OpsMgr 2007 R2 which is available at: http://www.systemcentercentral.com/BlogDetails/tabid/143/IndexID/67980/Default.aspx. In OpsMgr 2012 there are updated PowerShell scripts so it was time to get an update done for this blog post. In the original scenario I had added a bunch of management packs named with test that I needed to remove.…
I recent rebuilt my laptop to run on Windows 8 and had been working around one annoyance I had found so far – some of the websites which I work with on a regular basis weren’t responding as they had been. As an example, the System Center Central site (SCC) below would not let me…
“In OpsMgr 2012 how does the failover process actually work?” For starters, this answer varies depending upon what is doing the communicating and what it is communicating to: Agent to Management Server, Agent to Gateway, Gateway to Management Server, Network device to resource pool, and Unix/Linux agent to resource pool. Windows Agents reporting to a…
Are you looking for a way to quickly display key performance indicators (KPI’s) for a group of servers in OpsMgr 2012? Dashboards to the rescue! Open the OpsMgr console, Monitoring pane, right-click to create a new dashboard (follow through the wizard). For this example, we will use a four cell grid dashboard which will show…
So, you have an existing OpsMgr 2007 R2 environment and you have decided to use a multi-home migration to move to OpsMgr 2012. What are some key points to consider? First is to consider what upgrade options are available in System Center: Attached is the matrix of the System Center components and their deployment options…
Based upon my experiences with the SCVMM 2012 management pack in Operations Manager 2012, I added several ReSearch This! KB’s on this topic which are linked below: Tuning for the System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager management pack: (alert name, URL for the ReSearch This KB) VGS Not installed: http://www.systemcentercentral.com/BlogDetails/tabid/143/indexId/93620/Default.aspx Host has exceeded the…
Now that System Center 2012 is one “product” we’re seeing a heavier focus towards using a common back-end for the products. Microsoft has done a good (not great) job on providing a consistent set of back-end database requirements so that a single version of SQL 2008 R2 SP1 CU6 should be sufficient for all of…
What do you do when you are falling behind on the big things in life that need to get done but there just don’t seem to be enough hours in the day? Please note – this blog article is really about a process of my own learning how to integrate writing into my life. It…
During a recent discussion on OpsMgr 2007 R2 environments, I was told that OpsMgr subscriptions do not fire for sub-group members. I decided to test this and see if this works the same way in OpsMgr 2012. To test this I created a total of three groups: A top level one called “Top Level Group” …
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