If you read the previous blog article (and were paying attention) you may have noticed that not only was there an unmonitored Management Server, but there were also two gateway servers which were in a grey state. These two gateway servers were the only gateway servers for a remote domain in the environment. Reviewing the…
I logged into one of my OpsMgr environments and on the Administration space I ran across an interesting issue. A functional management server which considered itself to be Not monitored (see below). Reviewing the event logs on the management server there was nothing interesting so it wasn’t obvious what the issue was… Until I looked…
We have a large number of servers in our environment which are virtualized and as a result they are created with C drives that are relatively small compared to physical servers (there is no reason to provide a 128 GB C drive on a virtual system if it can be stored in 30 GB). This…
Recently I was working through activating AD Integration in a remote forest. If you are planning on doing this I highly recommend that you read this in detail (http://www.systemcenterforum.org/wp-content/uploads/ADIntegration_final.pdf) and if you have access check out Pete Zerger’s session on how to get AD Integration working in a untrusted forest (both at MMS and TechEd…
Windows IT Pro just published my article with them which is now online at: http://windowsitpro.com/article/articleid/101719/top-5-extensions-for-opsmgr.html The topic is: Top 5 Extensions for OpsMgr (Managing Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 smarter, faster, easier). This is my first article that I have published with Windows IT Professional, so I would really like to thank Windows IT…
A while back we built out some conference room kiosk’s (discussed at http://cameronfuller.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!A231E4EB0417CB76!1509.entry) which display the status of a conference room using an Outlook Web Access calendar. We have run into issues where the connection to the OWA server would be lost and/or when other issues would occur which would cause these to stop functioning.…
We ran into a situation where SQL jobs started failing on a SQL server in a DMZ domain seemingly out of the blue. As background, we have a situation where: Domain-A trusts Domain-B, but Domain-B doesn’t trust Domain-A (This is common in a DMZ configuration) SQL Server is installed on a Domain-A machine (This is…
There are new service names in the R2 version of OpsMgr. The following is the mapping of the new R2 service names and what they map to for the RTM/SP1 version: OpsMgr RC2 Service Name OpsMgr RTM & SP1 Name System Center Data Access OpsMgr SDK Service System Center Management OpsMgr Health Service System Center…
While doing a test deployment on the upcoming OpsMgr R2 release I was debugging why some of my agents were not deploying and I couldn’t find my agent installation logs to see what was causing the issue. These are created on the management server which the agent will be reporting to. So as an example,…
The Alert view link which is sent in the email notifications provides a link to the alert in the web console that is defaulted to the netbios name of the server. As an example, this is a sample alert in the environment before the change: Alert: DNS 2008 Resolution Time Alert Source: {SERVER.DOMAIN.COM} Path: {SERVER.DOMAIN.COM}…
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