For background, ReSearch This! is a common repository for information on how to resolve alerts for Operations Manager 2007, System Center Essentials and Microsoft Operations Manager 2005. It provides a method to search a community repository for alert resolutions and to submit information to share how you have resolved alerts in your environment. This management…
On several of our extremely scalable systems running SQL server (servers with 24 processors and about 200 GB of memory) we were receiving sporadic errors about disk transfer latency issues. Specifically this alert: Alert: Disk transfer (reads and writes) latency is too high Description: The threshold for the Logical Disk\Avg. Disk sec/Transfer performance counter has…
Our team has several IBM X3650 M2 servers that we were configuring to have access to one of our SANs. When working on the first of these servers the Operating System installed without an issue but as soon as the LUNs were attached the server would not longer boot to the local drives. The following…
Recently I logged into my RMS server and had a somewhat unpleasant surprise. While I am sure that I had done the production activation on this server I noticed in the event logs and on the properties of my system that Windows was not activated yet. I still had three days left to activate my…
Today we received a couple of alerts from the Active Directory 2008 management pack for a 64-bit Windows Server 2008 domain controller. They caught my eye because they did not have alert descriptions and in one case there was no Alert name. Normally I would post these as ReSearch This kb articles (see http://www.systemcentercentral.com/default.aspx?tabid=39&search=KB) but…
I ran my first upgrade today to from Windows Server 2008 SP1 to Windows Server 2008 SP2. The installation was for a domain controller running in a virtual (Hyper-V) and it ran for approximately 1 hour and 20 minutes. At this point it appears to be working without issues. A quick video of the upgrade…
Alert: IIS Discovery Probe Module Failed Execution Issue: Non-recurring failure across multiple servers in the environment. Discussed here at http://www.eggheadcafe.com/conversation.aspx?messageid=32202280&threadid=31903288 with no resolution. This is occurring in IIS MP version 6.0.6539.0. We have approximately 115 IIS servers with 85 alerts of this type occurring weekly. Digging into these led to a list of object discoveries…
When creating a set of dashboards for different servers in our environment, we started with the creation of a group which had the servers defined within it. Once this was done, we create a series of views to show us the state of the servers and to show relevant performance information. The user requirement was…
During a large deployment we were debugging several agents which would not go to a healthy state/they were reporting to OpsMgr in a grey state. We investigated on the agent side event logs and saw no indication of an error and no indication of an error on the OpsMgr RMS server or the gateway servers…
We ran into a situation where we had several servers in our environment which would report a heartbeat failure and then would start heartbeat successfully for a while. We tracked down the common configuration when we found in the OpsMgr console / Administration / Device Management / Agent Managed that each of these servers was…
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