With a few reports of installation failures of Operations Manager 2012 in the forums, I wanted to share a bit of important troubleshooting information – where detailed logging of OpsMgr 2012 installation process can be found.
Log Location
Logs are located in the %LocalAppData%\SCOM\Logs directory for the account under which installation was run. On a default installation on Windows 2008 R2, that would be c:\users\<UserName>\Appdata\Local\SCOM\Logs where <UserName> is the name of the account you used to run the installation.
Logs and Log Contents
The table below provides a brief description of log files and their contents.
| Log | Description |
| OpsMgrSetupWizard.log | Reports activity and progress of setup wizard. (Detailed logging of specific features is available in logs listed below.) |
| SCOMPrereqCheck.log | XML output of the prerequisite checker. |
| OMReporting.log | Logs progress of installation of the reporting feature |
| OMConsole.log | Verbose logging of installation of the Operations console |
| OMServer.log | Verbose logging of installation of the mgmt server role |
| WebConsole.log | Verbose logging of installation of the Web console |
| SetupX.log | Detailed logging of installation progress (where X is 0 for first attempt and incremented once for each subsequent attempt). If you attempt to install multiple times, multiple files will exist…setup0.log, setup1.log, etc. etc. |
Additional Resources
If you have not already downloaded the OpsMgr 2012 beta, it’s time to get started! Download the beta at http://www.microsoft.com/opsmgr For more information, tutorials and examples, see the resources below
- OpsMgr: Writing and debugging OpsMgr 2007 scripts outside of a live Mgmt Group
- Links: OpsMgr 2007 Scripting Articles at System Center Central
- Make your MonitoringObject Highly Available: (SCOM 2012 Resource Pool)
- Community Management Pack Catalog Cheat Sheet
- how to create a resource pool in OpsMgr 2012
Could have used this data a few days ago. Thanks for sharing mate!
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I was just searching for during my setup. I found them and the post around the same time. It was a great idea to publish this. I have all three logs side by side with OM Setup in CMtrace
Now I can watch as the logs update during the install.
I was just searching for them during my setup. I found them and the post around the same time. It was a great idea to publish this. I have all three logs side by side with OM Setup in CMtrace
Now I can watch as the logs update during the install.