SCOM is an acronym for Microsoft's System Center Operation Manager.
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SCOM vs. Windows System Center vs. HP Operations Manager
(I asked this question over on Stack Overflow and they sent me here. Sorry for the very basic question, but I have purely coding experience - no server management stuff at all - and this is ...
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SCOM, Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008
I'm trying to setup SCOM(System Center Operations Manager 2007 (SCOM) – Platform Monitoring) on my Server 2008 machine using SQL Server 2008 running on the same machine. When I check my prerequisites ...
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Correct settings for tempdb to avoid significant changes in free space
Every two to three days we are getting the following SCOM error:
The database tempdb in SQL instance
MSSQLSERVER on computer
sqlserver has
experienced a significant change in
free space
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Can SCOM 2007R2 monitor Exchange in a separate Forest?
We have multiple forests, each with an independent install of Exchange 2010 SP2.
Can one SCOM installation monitor both forests?
Is a one way or a two way trust needed?
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How do I realert Scom Monitors?
There's a "rule of monitors" that a user of scom might be aware of. If you have an alert that was generated by a monitor (as opposed to a rule that generates alerts) do not close it and let it close ...
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Dell Management Packs in System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2?
I recently set up SCOM in a small business network environment. The root management server is a Dell Poweredge 2950, and I'd like to use SCOM to monitor it using Dell's management packs. I've imported ...
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Is Sql Server 2008 R2 unsupported by Operations Manager (SCOM) 2007 R2?
I'm performing a test configuration of System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2, on a system prepared with Sql Server 2008 R2. Unfortunately, the Scom 2007 R2 prerequisites verification program seems ...
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SCOM Maintenance Mode
SCOM supports putting discreet objects/classes/targets into maintenance mode. This gives a very fine control over what objects/classes/targets have alerts forwarded or not.
Unfortunately, ...
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Simulate DOS/High Workload on IIS
I want to simulate a DOS attack, or a very high workload on a simple IIS web site. The purpose is testing SCOM responses with IIS.
Any suggestions for a tool and/or script?
Thanks!
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SCOM 2007 versus Zenoss (or other open source)
I've taken the liberty to test both SCOM 2007 and Zenoss and found the following:
SCOM 2007
Pros:
Great MS Windows server monitoring and reporting
In-depth configuration and easily integrates into ...
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How to migrate SCCM and SCOM's databases from SQL Server 2005 to SQL Server 2008?
I need to migrate databases (including reporting services) applications System Center Operations Manager and System Center Configuration Manager to a single SQL Server 2008. Currently each of the ...
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SCOM 2007 - SQL Server Monitoring
I've been tasked with comparing the monitoring capabilities in SCOM 2007 with the established SQL products such as Spotlight, SQLSentry, etc.
I'm pretty sure that SCOM can't do some of the more ...
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MS Operations Manager 2012 Web Console access Active Directory Users And Computers
Does anyone know if it is possible to add/manage "Active Directory Users And Computers" to/from the System Center 2012 Operations Manager Web Console?
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Lync Pool discovery issue in SCOM 2007 R2
Trying to get my Lync topology to show up in the SCOM 2007 R2 console.
So far, I've done the following:
Deployed the SCOM agent to the Lync servers
Enabled Agent Proxy on all Front End servers in ...
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Monitor one server with two separate SCOM (opsmgr) consoles
We have a situation where we have two independently deployed and managed SCOM consoles in our organization; both consoles are interested in collecting data from the same servers.
To the best of my ...
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Migrate SCOM 2007 R2 Databases to SQL 2008 R2 (change server)
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I have a SCOM 2007 R2 server that uses a sql 2005 server.
Machine 1: SCOM (SCOM 2007 R2 - W2K3)
Machine 2: SQL2005 (SQL 2005 SP2 - W2K3)
SQL Cluster: SQLCLUSTER (SQL 2008 R2 on Cluster - ...
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SCOM 2012 DNS Forwarder Availability Monitor
Background:
I have an environment with two different AD domains, each in its own forest, each with two Windows Server 2008 R2 domain controllers acting as DNS servers. There is no trust between the ...
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SCOM: Override all monitors for host
I'm running SCOM 2007 R2 to monitor both production and dev environments. I want all of the monitors to be enabled, but I want a way to disable all of the alerts on the dev servers. I know I can go in ...
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SCOM 2012 - SQL Server Monitoring
I have been tasked to see whether SCOM 2012 is the right tool to do the following, which have been asked of me:
Find out what are the longest running queries
Find out the number of locks
Does ...
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Monitor message queues
I'm looking for a simple way to monitor RabbitMQ queues from SCOM. In particular, I want to be notified when a particular queue (one we use for "dead letters") is not empty.
RabbitMQ has a RESTful ...
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PSEXEC from powershell
I have been struggling getting powershell to run Psexec. It works fine for single line commands. but i need to call SCOM to put the server in maintenance mode through Psexec...
$output = ...
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Create group in SCOM 2007 R2 that targets windows computer but is populated based on an installed service
I am trying to create a group in SCOM 2007 R2 that targets the Windows Computer class but is populated based on a certain service being installed. I want the group to be populated dynamically based on ...
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SCOM, Powershell and SMTP
I have created a Powershell script that emulates a telnet connection to an SMTP Server, the purpose of this is to check our SMTP gateway server to see if there is issue with sending mail. The script ...
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How to use SCOM 2007 R2 to see AD Computer last logon?
Can I use SCOM 2007 R2 to see Computers last logon from Active Directory?
I have 4 domain controllers that need to be replicated.
I know that I can use other programs like ...
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system center operations manager (SCOM) role combinations
We are evaluating system center operations manager 2007 R2 product, and would like to know what all roles can be combined onto single server.
Like root management server and reporting servers can be ...
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System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 install problem
While installing SCOM 07 R2 Database component on our DB server I get this error...
I've gotten the same error on the following configurations.
Windows Server 2003 & SQL Server 2008 SP1
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Why don't SCOM R2 web console performance views load?
When I select any performance view via my SCOM R2 web console, I get the following error:
Unexpected error
There was an error displaying the page you requested.
... and some suggestions about ...
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Systems Center Operations Manager on Dual-Homed Server
I am attempting to start playing with SCOM 2007 but I've run into a brick wall.
The box SCOM 2007 is installed on is a dual NIC machine, one network connected to the public Internet and the other ...
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SCOM 2007, Sql Audit event
I'm new to SCOM 2007. Im trying to setup alerts and views for failed SQL login attempts.
I've been on the internet for hours without any luck.
My test case is trying to connect to SQL server on the ...
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How is Win32_DefragAnalysis FilePercentFragmentation Calculated
SCOM 2007 R2 added a fragmentation analsysis health check that is producing warnings on many of my servers. To try to understand how SCOM is determines the fragmentation level, I created the following ...
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Where to download SCOM 2007 R2?
I'm browsing the MSDN subscriber downloads and they only have up to SCOM 2007 SP1. Searching Microsoft downloads has the R2 evaluation edition, but that's not what I need.
The R2 release has been ...
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How do I find the HKLM Registry Key of a Server Role for use in SCOM
I am learning to use SCOM in order to develop a SCOM pack. The only usable tool I have found (yet) to develop a pack is Visio (with the management pack designer).
I managed to create a pack that ...
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Monitoring JBOSS 6.1 with SCOM 2012 using JMX
I have really no knowledge about SCOM and a very little knowledge about JMX protocol. What I am trying to achieve is I have a HelloWorld application which has an HelloWorldMBean works perfectly fine ...
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case-insensitive SCOM Rule expression
I have a Rule watching the Application Log for Event 17137 (database starting up). A minor annoyance is that, whenever an instance is failed over, we see alerts fire from both the node and the ...
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In SCOM, can I allow overriding of the recurring schedule for missing event detection?
I'm creating a rule to look for a missing event in a windows log using SCOM and I need to override the rule for different groups of servers to set different timings.
For example server A needs to ...
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Monitoring OpenMQ in SCOM via JMX
Is there a way to connect SCOM to OpenMQ via JMX to monitor it? I've found an app named BridgeWays Java Attributes that can apparently do this but it is right now in beta. I was wondering if SCOM has ...
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SCOM 2007 Active Directory attribute discovery
I am trying to create a group in SCOM 2007 R2 based on the AD attribute DS_managedBy from a WMI query. I currently have a discovery that returns a list of all computer objects and the "managed by" ...
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SCOM Timed Monitor Two State Script Not Working
I have a two state script I've added to Monitoring that checks the state of a service on two servers and reports if it's running on both or none (should only run on one). It runs fine interactively ...
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The OpsMgr Health Service service terminated with service-specific error 2148073487 (0x8009000F)
I'm using Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 SP1 and I'm having some problems getting the client installed on a couple of servers. They are Windows 2008 (not R2) SP1. (I'm going to try ...
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What resources are helpful to a SCOM Administrator [closed]
What websites and resources are helpful for a SCOM administrator?
Based on my own research I found the following links helpful:
Software: Quest Extensions Manager
Community site/Blob: Everything ...
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How to update license key in SCOM 2012 after eval period expires?
Does anyone know how to update the license key for SCOM 2012 after the evaluation period expires. My scom server will not allow me to connect and will not allow me to update the key using the power ...
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How to get admins to actually use SCOM? [closed]
We implemented SCOM in our internal infrastructure. However, I have the impression that is isn't used as it could be.
For example: we have had regular incidents in our production (and other) ...
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Create a SCOM Monitor/Alert with a threshold relative to a performance counter?
Is it possible to have a SCOM monitor that is related to a performance counter. For instance, we monitor a WCF Service Operation that gives us an indicator of our system's workload ("Calls Per ...
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Use SCOM 2012, WMI, or Powershell to identify all servers that have hyper threading turned off
We recently setup SCOM 2012 and deployed agents to all of our servers. We also have noticed that a number of these servers do not have hyper threading enabled, which they should. Is there any way we ...
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How do I create a Dynamic SCOM group that includes HP servers with a certain name
I'd like to select servers that are HP servers and start with NYCEX*. I looked at the following HP group and the query appears like this:
<Expression>
<Contains>
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System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) 2007 R2: Send notification emails to a non-anonymous account
I would like to send emails to an already established service account, but it's an account that requires a login name and password. I don't understand why SCOM only has two options: Anonymous and ...
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Custom rules in SCOM 2007
Our networking department uses Microsoft's System Center Operations Manager 2007 (formerly MOM) to monitor servers. We want to check if a particular SQL Server database is being updated (basically if ...
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How to target SCOM 2007 R2 monitor to monitor only one server
This might be basic, but hopefully someone can help me:
We have a well-working SCOM 2007 R2 implementation monitoring our Microsoft infrastructure. Now, on one of these servers there's an event ...
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Can MS SCOM delegate monitoring and dashboards to a product team?
With Microsoft System Center Operation Manager 2012, can you create a group of resources/servers and delegate management to a team of programmers?
And can they setup their own dashboards to sit on a ...
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How to lower SCOM discovery time
I am developing a SCOM pack, and every time I do a change to the discovery rules I re-deploy my pack to SCOM and it takes it a lot of time to update the discovered objects. This makes my development ...
