Author Archives: Cameron Fuller

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}…

I ran into a situation where I could not get a gateway server to approve via the Microsoft.EnterpriseManagement.GatewayApprovalTool.exe. It was erroring out saying that "The gateway name already exists as a computer instance.". After digging into the console (in the computers view), I found that the Nworks management pack had created a "not monitored" computer…

Looking for a quick way to validate that your SMTP servers are working correctly? A good first step is to do a telnet to the SMTP server name on port 25 but that doesn’t let you know if the system will allow the relay of mail. As a next step try this out. The Alert…

When attempting to install a MOM 2005 console in an environment I had difficulty trying to find the appropriate link to download the .Net 1.1 framework for x64 systems which was causing the prerequisite checker to fail. For reference (mine as well since I know that I will forget this otherwise), the appropriate download for…

I have an environment where we have a forest that does not currently have PKI available and as a result we haven’t been able to install agents on the servers in that forest. This is a temporary situation as we will have PKI in place soon and will be able to fully monitor these systems…