operations manager

RE: Re: Exchange 2010 SP2 and the Exchange MP v14.2.71.0

LarryAlthouse — Fri, 25 May 2012 14:52:15 GMT

Thanks for the reply! Normally, I'd agree with you completely. However, the jump from Exchange to Exchange SP1 required the update to the MP. Given that SP2 has been out all year and there is little word about monitoring it or the need for a new MP, I am hopeful that there are no known issues. We do have a small set up in our lab that appears to be working, so we will probably end up moving forward with it.

Re: Setup cannot be completed - SCOM 2012

gabriel» — Fri, 25 May 2012 14:49:38 GMT

No problem, the log shows two installation attempts because I tried the installation yesterday and today again. Yesterday when I saw the error I think that was related to some update missing, so I ran windows update and installed all the pending updates. Today I rebooted the server and tries again without success.

The server is a Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise SP1 running on Hyper-V with 3.5 GB of ram and 60GB of free space. The installer is running from a iso mounted in the virtual machine. The database is a SQL Server 2008 R2 without service packs.

If there is another detail or log file required, please make me know, thanks in advance!

Re: Setup cannot be completed - SCOM 2012

Andreas Zuckerhut — Fri, 25 May 2012 14:17:19 GMT

Could you give us a bit more detail on your actual setup steps because that log contains various installations it seems.

Setup cannot be completed - SCOM 2012

gabriel» — Fri, 25 May 2012 14:06:48 GMT

Hello,

When trying to install SCOM 2012, the installations stops in the Management Server installation. Im following this guide:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/kevinholman/archive/2012/04/26/deploying-opsmgr-2012-a-quick-start-guide.aspx

Any help would be appreciated, I attached the installation logs

Gabriel T.

SCOM 2007 R2 Console - Alert View-The program cannot display the webpage when viewing Details

Andreas Zuckerhut — Fri, 25 May 2012 18:21:46 GMT

So today I logged in as usual on my SCOM Console server, wanted to check an Alert I received Ticket for and then I get this:
This program cannot display the webpage
Most likely causes:
- You are not connected to the Internet.
- The website is encountering problems.
- There might be a typing error in the address.

Never seen that one before I was like

Let’s restart the console with /clearcache – nothing.

Googling around a bit I stumbled across this solution here pointing out it may be an issue with the Temporary Internet Files - http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/ta/operationsmanagergeneral/thread/da7713fd-7f21-4265-be48-1cb5bb85daa0

Tried to delete temporary internet files, nothing.

What solved the problem at the end was deleting the entire profile folder of my user which took several hours as there were some 1.4M files in it.

Re: DPM 2010 Tapes

Tommy Gunn — Fri, 25 May 2012 12:05:08 GMT

There is no real absoute way to determine that. DPM will show the amount of data sent to the tape drive in the DPM UI for each tape, but if you select the option to compress the data during backup, then the space used on the tape will be less than what is displayed. Typical hardware compression is ~2:1 - so if your tape is 800GB native, you can figure DPM will show ~1.6TB written the tape before we fill it. Of course the compression rate varies based on the data type.

DPM 2010 Tapes

HirenTata — Fri, 25 May 2012 10:32:56 GMT

How can I tell how much free space is left on a tape in DPM 2010

Re: MSSQL SPN Loop

Shaun Laughton — Fri, 25 May 2012 09:51:56 GMT

Hi Marco.

Are the SQL Server Services on your new SQL Server 2008 R2 Server running under a Domain User account rather than local system? If so then you will need to add the SPN to the user object rather than the computer object.

Let me know if this fixes your issue.

Cheers

Shaun

Re: 2012 single-server upgrade: attempt 1, catastrophic failure 1

Shaun Laughton — Fri, 25 May 2012 09:36:46 GMT

I had a very similar experience. My particular upgrade completed the Initial Configuration and Operational Database configuration stages successfully, only to hang at the Validating Install stage of the Management Server deployment. The logs merely indicated that OMSERVER.MSI had been launched. Had to revert to backups, and am now going through the upgrade process again as I type.....

Exchange 2007 Management Pack for System Center 2012 Operations Manager

Matt Tinney — Fri, 25 May 2012 07:46:34 GMT

I have an exchange 2007 environment i want to monitor. I am running the exchange 2007 MP and have discovery working. I have run the powershell scripts on the exchange servers to configure the test mailboxes. The issue I am having is getting the synthetic transactions to working properly. I have run through the management pack template for setting up the internal/external OWA as well as IMAP but it is not working . I see nothing in the event viewr on any my exchange servers telling me symptoms of an issue. I look into the performance data in the synthetic transaction view of the exchange mp but see no data.

What are some common points or things to look into that may be misconfigured? I did review the entire exchange MP and followed it for the implementation.
Just wondering what i might be missing or if there are any known bugs with setting up synthentic transactions with exchange 2007?
Thanks for your insight!

Add Change Password Web Part to SCSM 2012 Self Service Portal

Buchatech — Fri, 25 May 2012 06:51:53 GMT

In this post I am going to show how to deploy this on a SharePoint 2010 farm and expose it through SCSM’s Self Service Portal.

Click download to be directed to the full post.

Re: SCOM 2007 R2 and Monitoring Individual Process Performance

curtmcgirt — Fri, 25 May 2012 00:26:55 GMT

i was looking for this too. that MP was written for IIS 2003, but for anybody else who looking for an update for IIS 7, i just

1. opened this xml in the authoring console

2. added the IIS 7 MP as a reference

3. changed the target of the Rule and Monitor to "IIS 7 Application Pool" instead of iis 2003 application pool.

4. pushed the MP to my management group from the authoring console

5. adjusted the monitoring views to use IIS 7 application pool instead of IIS 2003 application pool.

everything seems to be working.

Re: Exchange 2010 SP2 and the Exchange MP v14.2.71.0

Shaun Collins — Thu, 24 May 2012 23:11:34 GMT

Larry, there has been no update to the Exchange 2010 MP for SP2 to my knowledge, but I would think this should not be a big deal since a service pack does not usually bring new features, but patches. I would suggest simply running in test and moving forward based on results.

Exchange 2010 SP2 and the Exchange MP v14.2.71.0

LarryAlthouse — Thu, 24 May 2012 21:42:59 GMT

Is anyone monitoring Exchange Server 2010 SP2 with the last release of the Exchange 2010 MP (v14.2.71.0). One of our teams is getting ready to push Exchange SP2 and we're being asked if there will be any problems on the OpsMgr side, but I cannot find any information that addresses this directly. Please let me know if you are running this configuration and if there were any problems in OpsMgr going from Exchange 2010 SP1 to SP2.

Thanks!
Larry

Re: Core MP version for CU5

curtmcgirt — Thu, 24 May 2012 21:42:27 GMT

thanks Pete. i should read that before tomorrow, and maybe i'll ask him directly; he and Cameron are scheduled to be at the inaugural DFW User Group meeting tomorrow. but i didn't see your name on the list, sir.

Re: Core MP version for CU5

Pete Zerger — Thu, 24 May 2012 21:21:53 GMT

Best resource is likely Kevin Holman's recently posted "OpsMgr 2007 CU6 - My Experience' article at http://blogs.technet.com/b/kevinholman/archive/2012/05/18/opsmgr-2007-r2-cu6-rollup-hotfix-ships-and-my-experience-installing-it.aspx

Re: Backup metadata enumeration failed - sharepoint error

Tommy Gunn — Thu, 24 May 2012 21:03:35 GMT

Sameer, kind of an obscure issue I think. I've seen this error in my environment and the iwalkthru.com was helpful. Also see this one - http://www.lennaerts.com/?p=41

Re: Backup metadata enumeration failed - sharepoint error

Sameer — Thu, 24 May 2012 20:44:18 GMT

Not much DPM help on SCC? :)

Orcehstrator 2012: Six more “must read” articles from Robert Hearn

Tommy Gunn — Fri, 25 May 2012 01:17:46 GMT

This guy is on fire writing some great articles covering the lessor known (or completely unknown) points within Orchestrator 2012. Check these out…especially the ‘Understanding IP Installation”….great stuff!

Cool Tool: New Command Line Utility to Start a Runbook

Quick Tip: Understanding Multi-Value Data and the Databus

Automating Builds of Orchestrator Integration Packs

Community Spotlight: Putting a “Send Popup” Activity Back in Orchestrator

Using Windows Task Scheduler to Invoke Scheduled Runbooks

Understanding IP Installation: What Does Register/Unregister/Deploy/Undeploy Really Mean?

Re: Core MP version for CU5

curtmcgirt — Thu, 24 May 2012 20:12:28 GMT

assuming i missed something in installing cu5, which step of installing cu6 should i pay close attention to to check the version of my system center library to make sure it was applied correctly?

Re: performance alerts for missing performance data

curtmcgirt — Thu, 24 May 2012 20:05:34 GMT

ok i finally got the overridden 2008 monitor to work on my bad agent by downloading a cpu stresser utility and making the machine run at 5% cpu for a few minutes. (the agent is grossly oversized with 16 processors that haven't been above 1% utilization for the past two weeks, save for this morning's spike. ah, "standards.")

now the question remains, why has this monitor repeatedly failed to detect 100% cpu utilization on this agent and how can i troubleshoot it any further than i have already?