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…
My friend JC and I ran into a situation recently where OpsMgr 2007 R2 started alerting us that: “Could not allocate space for object in database because the filegroup is full” Normally this means that the database is not set auto-grow or that the drive where the filegroup exists is full. These situations are fixed…
The System Center Operations Manager 2007 Unleashed book included a set of scripts on the CD (Chapter 12 content) that provided an automated backup process you could then schedule to execute as a regular task. These were also discussed at MMS 2009 as part of the SO34 “Don’t Flirt With Disaster” presentation by Kerrie Meyler…
We have a requirement to provide monitoring for FTP services that are provided by a product called GlobalScape FTP server. There were several different approaches that I considered here to monitor this via OpsMgr so here were the results: Since it was FTP I would not have done due diligence unless I tried to use…
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