Tag Archives: SCOM

System Center News & Updates – 2014 M1

“System Center News & Updates” is apart of an annual 4 part series of anything new & noteworthy in the System Center world. We publish it at the end of every HASMUG (Houston Area Systems Management User Group meeting). The publication has two placeholders: (ECM) Enterprise Client Management, and (CDM) Cloud and Datacenter Management. We […]

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Report on SCOM Alert Notification Subscriptions

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

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

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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OperationsManager Database Connectivity Issues After Migration

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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How to deploy SCOM Operations Console to Clients

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)

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

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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SCOM 2007 R2 MOM Agent Activation context generation failed

I came across the following errors today on the server I’m trying to push the SCOM MOM Agent to a Windows 2008 server: Log Name: Application Source: SideBySide Date: 10/15/2009 9:29:04 AM Event ID: 33 Task Category: None Level: Error Keywords: Classic User: N/A Computer: SERVER01.domain.pvt Description: Activation context generation failed for “C:\Program Files\System Center […]

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Running OpsMgr 2007 R2 DBCreateWizard on 64-bit SQL Server

There may be an issue when running the R2 64-bit DBCreateWizard on an SQL server. You may see the following in the application log: Log Name: Application Source: Bid Date: 10/14/2009 2:09:38 PM Event ID: 1 Task Category: None Level: Warning Keywords: Classic User: N/A Computer: SQL01.domain.pvt Description: C:\ISO\OpsMgr 2007 R2\DBCreateWizard.exe 8880 Tweet

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