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Forums: RE: Re: CU2 installation: Agents never show up in Pending

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 19:55:02 GMT

Found it.

I found a blog somewhere (wish I had the link to give them credit) that said that sometimes even though you use an elevated cmd prompt it doesn't always work. It said to disable UAC, reboot, and try again.

As soon as I did that, everything worked perfectly. No idea why, but it did.

Forums: Re: R2: Trying to upgrade from SQL 2005 to 2008

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 18:30:49 GMT

Marco,

Did you copy the and replaced updated SRSUpgradeTool.exe with the existing one which is shipped with SCOM R2 Cumulative update 1 or 2

Forums: Re: ACS in a DMZ scenario?

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 16:51:07 GMT

I’m in the financial industry, and the auditors are requiring that we centrally collect all security event logs. ACS was to be our solution for this to keep the overhead of security events for 400+ servers out of the operations database. I think I can live with a separate ACS database if that is doable, though I’m not sure how reporting on that database would work.

Blog: MonitoringHost.exe taking up all memory on RMS with Exchange 2010 MP

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 16:35:12 GMT

(SCOM 2007 R2) We have the exchange 2010 Management Pack installed with the Exchange Correlation engine installed on the RMS and while running, the MonitoringHost.exe will (at no specific point in time) consume all remaining memory ultimately rendering the RMS not functional.

Our RMS is on windows 2008 Enterprise sp2 64 bit.

Our issue is that we start up the Exchange Correlation Engine and it will eventually cause the MonitoringtHost.exe process to consume all memory. We know this stems from the Correlation engine. we are working with MS on this but we have a counter part with the same management pack but on 2003 for their RMS and this does not happen to them.

We have not disabled any exchange 2010 rules which is a "known" issue if you use the 2010 MP.

anyone seeing this?

Forums: RE: In house developed monitor failures (EventID 1206 failed, got unloaded and reached the failure limit that prevents automatic reload. Management group "".)

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 16:07:38 GMT

I'm working with Cliff to resolved this issue.

As suggest, I try to run the script manually using the command line. The script complete sucessfully and return the expected XML.

The Mp containing the vbs is available here : http://pastebin.com/JL9KtQJm

Using the function LogScriptEvent(), I manage to figure out the call to oAPI.Return() hang when the propertybag is too big.

Forums: Re: CU2 installation: Agents never show up in Pending

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 16:01:21 GMT

Are your management servers windows 2008, or 2003?

I've seen incomplete patch installs in 2008 when the patch was not started with 'run as administrator' option.

Forums: Re: Servers with Multiple NIC's and agent health

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 15:28:32 GMT

It was the SPN. Thanks!

Forums: Re: CU2 installation: Agents never show up in Pending

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 14:56:53 GMT

I should have mentioned that I followed his blog while doing my installation. I even saw his section about the agent patch files not being put in place which is what clued me into looking there. I've also posted this exact question to his blog in hopes that he might also see it and respond.

I get no errors at all. None on the RMS, MS's, GW's, or agents. They all just go along as if nothing is wrong.

I've contacted the team that manages our package deployment utility (similar to SCCM) to see what it'll take to make a package. I'm at a complete loss as to why this might be happening.

Forums: Re: R2: Trying to upgrade from SQL 2005 to 2008

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 14:39:39 GMT

@Tom, My understanding is that all the permissions have been checked out. It's the first place we looked.

@Simon, Is there a detailed step-by-step anywhere online? For example, would one uninstall OpsMgr Reporting Services first before going with the SQL tear down?

Forums: RE: Re: Generic Log .txt Monitor HELP!

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 14:38:16 GMT

No, I mean it only seems to find the text string once and create an alert. All appearances of the text string after the initial alert seem to be ignored. As if it stops looking for it all together. Even inserting the text manually into the log file doesnt seem to affect the alert.

Forums: Re: Alerting when Task Scheduelr service is not running

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 14:28:18 GMT

You should get an Alert when it's down, then you right-click the Alert and create a new Notification subscription.

But since you didn't get the Alert yet, this won't work. You have to go to the Administration Tab, right-click Subscriptions, "New subscription...", insert a name, then tick "created by specific rules or monitors" and in the Criteria description box you see "specific", click it, search for the Monitor, add it. Next, next...

Forums: Re: Alerting when Task Scheduelr service is not running

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 14:04:15 GMT

Anyone? Please? Thanks! :)

Forums: RE: CU2 installation: Agents never show up in Pending

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 08:59:07 GMT

Bob, what sort of error messages are you seeing on the RMS or clients that are not updated? Any warning messages of any sort? Not sure if you've seen Kevin's CU2 rundown, which may have a nugget that helps.

OpsMgr 2007 R2 CU2 rollup hotfix ships – and my experience ...

Forums: RE: Servers with Multiple NIC's and agent health

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 08:54:33 GMT

You'll find the cause in the error events. Find the error events in the 20,000 - 21,000 range in the OpsMgr Event Log on the agent computer, then on the mgmt server. Check them against the authentication event reference on the WIKI that I posted - http://www.systemcentercentral.com/BlogDetails/tabid/143/IndexID/32926/Default.aspx

Forums: RE: Re: How does overrides apply?

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 07:43:01 GMT

Thanks Dimitri!

SCOM really amazes me sometimes, and sometimes it simply sucks... :-)

Figured out i'll go for optin one short term, and make a option 2, longer term.

I started creating MP in Auth Console. -> Probe Action -> Picked Microsoft.Windows.Script.PropertyBagProbe module put my script in etc.. but on save it says ... this ... can you help :-) ?

error. ProbeAction Module (Type=Microsoft.Windows.ScriptPropertyBagProbe, ID=Script) cannot be a leaf node in this composition. The composition has no input types (but this ProbeAction leaf module has one [ManagementPackElement=System.BaseData in ManagementPack:[Name=System.Library, KeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35, Version=6.1.7221.0]]). Only P....

Forums: Re: scom snmp monitoring

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 07:34:42 GMT

Sameer,

you could contact Opslogix and ask for their solution to build a SNMP based MP for your device. (easiest way )

Or indeed use the guide and dive into the world of SNMP - XML maybe the hard way but as stated before in my opinion the most fun! (Offcourse you probably come into situations where you would bump your head against the screen). Also take a look at Krish his solution on SNMP monitoring.....

Cheers,

Forums: Re: R2: Trying to upgrade from SQL 2005 to 2008

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 07:03:25 GMT

Marco, the reporting in 2008 is really different to 2005. AddWebConfigAppSettingCA is an error with the web Config file. I would backup the DB then remove SQL 2005 replace with SQL 2008. Remove the reporting then restore the DB's back into SQL 2008 clean install the SRS services.

Forums: Re: Any good .net MPs out there?

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 06:54:55 GMT

AviCode has intercept studio, Quest has FogLight. Both are the same and written by AviCode. Although it is an expensive program this has to judged by the need. I have installed AviCode products alot and the client got a good ROI on the investment. It is not a tool for the faint hearted and you would really need a good knowledge of .Net to fully understand the result.

The ASP.Net that come with OpsMgr is also created by AviCode, OEM'd to MSFT but in a very cut down form.

Forums: RE: Event Based Rule needed with Repeated Event abilities

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 05:09:28 GMT

I believe what you're looking for can be accomplished with a "Repeated Event Detection Monitor" instead of a rule. Go to Authoring, add a new Monitor, look under Windows Events, and choose "Repeated Event Detection". In there you can do Manual resets (operator has to close the alert manually), Timed resets (after a certain period the alert clears itself), or Windows Event Reset (alert clears when a separate event is detected in the event logs).

Forums: CU2 installation: Agents never show up in Pending

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 04:42:34 GMT

I'm in the middle of upgrading to CU2 and am having an issue getting the agents to show up as pending upgrade.

At first, I had done the installation with my account, which has all the access needed (even SA). Everything went fine, but I noticed the update packages didn't get put into the agentmanagement folders. I manually copied them in, but this didn't change anything (even after cycling the HS on the RMS and each MS).

Then I logged in as the action account, which is also local admin and SA. Install went fine again, it DID copy the files into place, but still the agents don't show up in pending.

I manually updated two agents, and they show up just fine as having the CU2 update in the agent view. But I can't get any of the other agents to show up in pending. Am I going to have to resort to a 3rd party tool to push the update out?