Jan25
If you have servers in your environment which appear as “Not Monitored” in the Agent Managed section of the Operations Manager/Administration console you may want to check this out. We found that agents which had been installed with the wrong Management Group Name appear as “Not Monitored” in the Agent Managed section. In our case these were manually deployed agents which had a typo in the mana...
Posted by Cameron Fuller on
Monday, 25 Jan 2010 05:57.
Jan22
Recently I was working in an environment where the root management server for the Forefront environment would regularly restart the health service. At first I figured it was one of the RMS thresholds (private bytes or some such thing – see the end of this article for great link from Kevin Holman).
However, this debug took a new direction when I looked in add/remove programs and saw that this ...
Posted by Cameron Fuller on
Friday, 22 Jan 2010 07:41.
Jan18
In Operations Manager 2007 R2, one of the most common alerts that I am running into is the “SQL job failed to complete successfully” alert which is part of the SQL server management pack. In one of our environments, the request was made to provide an alert if this issue occurred for a specific job name. This is a custom job which is business critical for the environment. As background, the foll...
Posted by Cameron Fuller on
Monday, 18 Jan 2010 02:13.
Jan16
I’ve had several times recently when I was on a client site, and nobody knew what server was hosting the Operations Manager database (the usual response is “I’ve slept since then”). Each time I end up digging around for a while so I thought it would make sense to post this. There are multiple ways to locate which server is providing the Operations Manager database:
1) Registry: Regedit to key...
Posted by Cameron Fuller on
Saturday, 16 Jan 2010 09:20.
Jan14
Alert: Root Management Server Unavailable
Issue: We ran into an issue recently where we saw issues with most of our distributed applications changing to a grey state seemingly for no reason. After a little digging we determined that the RMS server itself was actually in a grey state. We tried things that have worked in the past like reviewing the Operations Manager logs on the RMS, restarting ...
Posted by Cameron Fuller on
Thursday, 14 Jan 2010 08:15.