Archive for the Category: SCOM

Beta Private Cloud exams from MMS not showing on MCP transcript

August 24, 2012 Stephen Leuthold

A few month ago I came across Kevin Holman’s blog post on checking the status of the Private Cloud beta exams I took at MMS (71-246 Monitoring and Operating a Private Cloud with System Center 2012 & 71-247 Configuring and Deploying a Private Cloud with System Center 2012) and to my excitement I passed both […]

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Report on SCOM Alert Notification Subscriptions

December 5, 2011 Stephen Leuthold

Trouble tracking down alert notifications? A good word of advice is to be sure to include the notification subscription ID in your alert channel, such as follows… Alert: Logon Failures – Multiple failures by same User on single Machine Severity: 2 Source: ADS04.Domain.pvt Path: ADS04.Domain.pvt Last modified by: System Last modified time: 9/22/2011 11:47:49 AM […]

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Enable Windows Authentication for Live Maps on a non-RMS Server

April 7, 2011 Stephen Leuthold

I’ve wanted to move my Live Maps installation off of my SCOM 2007 R2 RMS for some time now. But until recently I was under the impression that it was not possible to do this with Windows based authentication enabled in Live Maps. I attended MMS 2011 and stopped by the Savision booth in the […]

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Resetting Logical Disk Fragmentation Monitor via PowerShell

December 8, 2010 Stephen Leuthold

I’ve been goog..errr bing’ing trying to look for a solution and most everyone points to the GreenMachine. Although a great and powerful tool that I have used on occasion, for some reason it does not filter for monitors in “Warning” only state and I cannot filter by monitor. In this case I will be resetting […]

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xperf: error: NT Kernel Logger: Cannot create a file when that file already exists

December 1, 2010 Stephen Leuthold

My % Interrupt Time on one of my servers was exceeding 10%, yielding a SCOM alert. I went to dive in deeper and discovered it is a driver or hardware issue. To determine what driver might be causing the large amounts of interrupts I had to result to a tool called xperf, which is apart […]

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OperationsManager Database Connectivity Issues After Migration

October 25, 2010 Stephen Leuthold

I was tasked with migration an OperationsManager database off to another SQL server on an SQL Instance other than the default “SQLSERVER” instance. I following the TechNet article to perform the migration but was receiving various database connectivity errors in the Operations Manager log on my RMS. Examples of errors occurring for me are below: […]

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PowerShell Script To Restart Service And Dependents

June 22, 2010 Stephen Leuthold

Some of my Windows 2008 R2 servers have been reaching over our 80% committed memory threshold more often than preferred. There is a hotfix out as noted on Kevin Holman’s OpsMgr Blog – http://blogs.technet.com/b/kevinholman/archive/2010/06/09/wmi-leaks-memory-on-server-2008-r2-monitored-agents.aspx , however the server admins have not tested and deployed the hotfix yet so in the mean time I needed an […]

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How to deploy SCOM Operations Console to Clients

November 11, 2009 Stephen Leuthold

It was a tough find but after much digging I came across the command to run for a silent install of the Systems Center Operations Manager 2007 Operations Console. Tweet

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OpsMgr ACS SecureVantage Noise Filter (Combined)

November 10, 2009 Stephen Leuthold

As many of you know collecting all security events on a server using the Audit Collection Service (ACS) can get very “noisy”. Thankfully SecureVantage has come up with a list of noise filters, unfortunately they are all separate queries. I took the time to combine all the queries and thought I would share to save […]

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Running SCOM Agent On Domain Controller as Local System

November 4, 2009 Stephen Leuthold

After deploying the OpsMgr agent to a DC you may receive some errors concerning scripts not being able to run. An example of an error you may receive is below: Forced to terminate the following process started at 1:01:51 PM because it ran past the configured timeout 120 seconds. Command executed: “C:\Windows\system32\cscript.exe” //nologo “C:\Program Files\System […]

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