Here’s another KB article we published today. This one describes a problem where deploying the SCOM 2007 Linux Agent fails with "The certificate Common Name (CN) does not match" due to a certificate issue: ===== Symptoms Attempting to deploy the System Center Operations Manager 2007 Linux Agent...

System Center Operations Manager 2007 uses mutual authentication to communication with the agents. First the agent will try to communicate with Kerberos and when this is not possible certificates will be used for the secure communication.  If you happen to have agents that lie outside of your domain...

By default when we request a certificate in System Center Operations Manager 2007, the validity period is 1 year. When the certificate is about to expire you will receive a warning message on the RMS stating that the certificate on the RMS server is due to expire. To avoid and to extend the certificated...