Today we received a couple of alerts from the Active Directory 2008 management pack for a 64-bit Windows Server 2008 domain controller. They caught my eye because they did not have alert descriptions and in one case there was no Alert name.

Normally I would post these as ReSearch This kb articles (see http://www.systemcentercentral.com/default.aspx?tabid=39&search=KB) but generally there are three required pieces of information: The Alert, the Issue, and the Resolution. In both cases there was no alert description and in one of these cases we do not have alert text. Both of these alerts occurred at the same time on the same domain controller:

Alert: Overall Essential Services state

Issue: The Overall Essential Services state monitor portion of the Active Directory Domain Controller Server 2008 Computer role identified an alert. No additional knowledge was available.

Resolution: Speaking with the technician we found out the he had performed an uninstallation of the Exchange 2007 tools from the domain controller at the time that these alerts activated. These alerts had not recurred since that time. We closed the alerts to monitor to see if it will reoccur.

Alert: (none)

Issue: The SysVol for Windows 2008 portion of the Management Pack for Active Directory Server 2008 (Monitoring) identified an alert as part of the DFS Service Health alert monitor for one of the domain controllers in our environment. No additional knowledge was available.

Resolution: Speaking with the technician we found out the he had performed an uninstallation of the Exchange 2007 tools from the domain controller at the time that these alerts activated. These alerts had not recurred since that time. We closed the alerts to monitor to see if it will reoccur.