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Thomas Ellermanns view on System Center
AD Trust Monitoring - what generates the alert and why it's not auto resolved
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over 3 years ago
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Thomas Ellermann
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When importing the Microsoft Active Directory Management pack, it normally generates quite a few alerts that needs to be solved and/or tuned. One of the alerts I often see is the warning ' A problem has been detected with the trust relationship between...
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Event ID 21023 - Management server not downloading configuration files
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over 3 years ago
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Thomas Ellermann
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Earlier today one of my management servers quit receiving new configuration and all agents reporting to it also quit updating their configuration. I got the event 2 1023 every 5 minutes in the Operations Manager log : Log Name: Operations Manager Source...
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Orchestrator Runbooks not appearing on the web console
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over 1 year ago
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Thomas Ellermann
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I was creating new runbooks in System Center Orchestrator 2012 and wanted to synchronize them to Service Manager 2012, but after running the connector the runbooks still didn't appear. Browsing to the Orchestrator web console I could see the runbooks...
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SCSM 2012 Data Warehouse jobs keep failing
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9 months ago
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Thomas Ellermann
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I often run into the same problem with the SCSM 2012 Data Warehouse, that the cubes jobs all fail. When resuming one of the jobs the following errors appear in the log: Message : An Exception was encountered while trying during cube processing. Message...
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Automatically close incidents after x number of days
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over 2 years ago
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Thomas Ellermann
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I had a request from a customer that the would like a workflow to close all resolved incidents, 7 days after they were resolved. Several solutions exists on the internet, but I think this one is the most simple. First you need to install the SCSM...
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SQL 2008 R2 support for Operations Manager 2007 R2
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over 3 years ago
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Thomas Ellermann
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Many customers have been asking for the support of SQL 2008 R2 and Operations Manager 2007 R2. Today we relased a KB on how to do a clean install or an upgrade to SQL 2008R2 while running Operations Manager 2007 R2. KB Link is : - http://support...
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System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Cumulative Update 4 released
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over 2 years ago
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Thomas Ellermann
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Today we finally released the Cumulative update 4 for Operations Manager 2007 R2. Cumulative Update 4 resolves the following issues: The Performance and Resource Optimization (PRO) Tips feature does not function correctly after you install Cumulative...
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Service Manager 2012 services won't start after applying KB2677070
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8 months ago
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Thomas Ellermann
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After applying the recently released security update KB2677070 the System Center Data Access Service and the System Center Management Configuration Service wont start. Both services will log a "Error 1053: The service did not respond to the start or control...
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System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Cumulative Update 3 released
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over 3 years ago
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Thomas Ellermann
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Today we released the System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Cumulative Update 3 with some valuable fixes (KB2251525) CU3 includes all the fixes from CU1 and CU2 and you therefore only need to apply CU3 to apply all fixes included in these 3 cumulative...
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Failed to Apply UR2 to SCSM 2012 SP1 - Performance Counters not found
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2 months ago
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Thomas Ellermann
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I've been updating a couple of SCSM2012 SP1 installations to UR2 and everytime time I run into the same problem - the installation fails. The installations fails with: error occured while executing custom action: "_Installhealthserviceperfcountersforpatching...
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Force language on SCSM 2012 Console
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over 1 year ago
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Thomas Ellermann
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Several customers would like to use the console with the US language setting, even though the client OS is of a different language. In both SCSM2010 and SCSM2012 the console will start up the same language as the client, but for SCSM2012 the users now...
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Incident reports failing with - Query execution failed for dataset 'RelatedCIs'.
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over 2 years ago
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Thomas Ellermann
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I ran into a funny problem the other day when working with the SCSM Incident reports. The reports all ran fine, but when we wanted to drill furter down we got the following error: Query execution failed for dataset 'RelatedCIs'. (rsErrorExecutingCommand...
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Scheduling and disabling the SCSM Active Directory connector via powershell
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over 2 years ago
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Thomas Ellermann
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One of my customers noticed a console performance decrease every hour when the AD connector/s ran. So we had to come up with a plan on how to schedule the AD connector to only run during the nigth. When setting up the AD connector via the SCSM Console...
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Blank User Role name and description in the SCSM console
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over 2 years ago
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Thomas Ellermann
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If you have a SCSM 2010 environment where you are using localised consoles and not only the English one, you will most likely come across this little problem: US Console Danish Console If you run a SQL Query against the Userrole and LocalizedText...
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Agent communication error - 21001 - caused by wrong type of trust
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over 3 years ago
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Thomas Ellermann
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I was working with a customer that had deployed several agents in the same domain as the OpsMgr servers, but when deploying to servers in other trusted domains, the following error occurred in the Agents OpsMgr event log: Event Type: Error Event Source...
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SCSM Portal error, due to Web Content Server being out of sync
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5 months ago
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Thomas Ellermann
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Recently one of my customers had issues with their SCSM Portal where new categories didn't appear and several of the Request offerings failed. Looking in the SMPortalTrace.log it stated that a Management pack was missing from system: Ressourcestrings...
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Cumulative Update 5 for System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 is released
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over 2 years ago
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Thomas Ellermann
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On the 5th of August 2011 we released Cumulative Update 5 for System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2. Cumulative Update 5 for Operations Manager 2007 R2 resolves the following issues: Restart of non-Operations Manager services when the agent...
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SCOM 2007 R2 Universal Connector, Interop Provider certificate expired
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11 months ago
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Thomas Ellermann
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I recently ran into the problem that a normal working Universal connector stopped working and generated three different entries in the Application event log and alerts in the OpsMgr console: EventID 1500: 2012-06-26 15:21:21.835 [Microsoft.SystemCenter...
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SCSM Active Directory Connector optimization
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2 months ago
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Thomas Ellermann
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Often customers setup Active Directory connectors to import all objects from the root of the Domain. This means that all users (enabled and disabled), groups and computer objects are imported. First thing to consider about the AD Connector is to determine...
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Dell Equallogic MP v.4.1 - Not supported on Clustered RMS
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over 2 years ago
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Thomas Ellermann
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I was working with the Dell Equallogic Management pack, v.4.1 and had problems getting it to discover the SAN ifself. The customer had installed the DLL-Helper utility on both of the nodes on the RMS-Cluster and in the log we found the following: ...
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Orchestrator Runbook to reassign SCSM Incidents
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3 months ago
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Thomas Ellermann
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I was working at a customer that was doing a domain migration. Service Manager was installed in the new domain, but up til now the analysts and users have used their old accounts. The task was to create a runbook, that reassinged all Incidents from the...
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SCSM - The item cannot be updated.....aka. Click Apply and die :-)
Posted
7 months ago
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Thomas Ellermann
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I guess you all have seen the error message below: The problem all relates to internal workflows, that kicks in as soon as you hit Apply. Here's a short example: 1. The incident is created and you click Apply. This will add the following entry...
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Data Warehouse problems after upgrading to SP1
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1 month ago
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Thomas Ellermann
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Recently I discovered that an otherwise working SCSM installation had begun to fail the MP synchronization after upgrading to SP1. The following error was logged in the event log: Event ID: 33333 Description: Data Access Layer rejected...
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