Hi everyone, Vikram Sahay here and I’m back again with another interesting topic on system Center Operations Manager 2007. Hope you find it useful. Recently we were working on an  issue where we were getting an error indicating that an agent could not be removed from a Windows Cluster service node...

Here's a somewhat obscure issue that took me a little bit of time to figure out so I thought I'd post it here to save you some trouble in case you ran across it as well.  In this scenario, once the Forefront Threat Management Gateway Management Pack was installed into a System Center Operations...

To follow up on yesterday's fix for a problem importing the Red Hat Linux Management Pack on System Center Operations Manager 2007, here's another tip for an issue you may run into where the Discovery Wizard fails when attempting to discover UNIX/Linux servers: Symptoms While attempting to perform a...

Let’s say you’ve got a mixed version (SP1 and R2) Operations Manager 2007 environment and agents are commonly multi-homed.  This works and is supported to enable a phased upgrade approach. However, if you’re planning to multi-home new agents in this mixed version environment and you’re using the...

The System Center Operations Manager 2007 product team just posted a cool article on how to fix a couple Discovery related issues and if you haven’t already seen it then it’s worth a quick read.  Here’s the scenario they work with: In this post I shall discuss a scenario where we had the following...

If you’ve been reading this blog for any length of time then you’re already familiar with the postings made by Steve Rachui over on his Manageability blog, but there’s been a flurry of activity over there in the past two days and it probably deserves a quick pointer here just in case you’re not a subscriber...

This is kind of a weird one but I came across it the other day and thought it might be worth a quick heads-up.  Normally you wouldn't think this would be a common issue, and in reality it isn't, but with the economy the way it is right now this may be something you eventually run into: ========...

If you've been an Operations Manager admin for any length of time you've probably had a need to discover security group membership for your various agent computers so if this is you then this is your lucky day.  Over on Steve Rachui's manageability blog he posted a sample MP that  does this...