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Monday, October 05, 2009 6:29 AM

What is config churn?

There have been a couple good articles briefly covering this topic…. you might have read them.  I will reference some below.  Config churn is basically, when your RMS is in an almost never-ending loop of generating config.  This can be
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Friday, October 02, 2009 9:31 PM

Keep your management pack names SHORT in SP1!

I have seen this twice now… so I will blog about it.  It seems to be rare in the wild, but it will completely cripple a management group when this occurs.  So beware SP1 users!   This article does not apply to R2.  This is only an
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Thursday, October 01, 2009 10:23 PM

Fixing troubled agents

Sometimes agents either will not “talk” to the management server upon initial installation, and sometimes an agent can get unhealthy long after working fine.  Agent health is an ongoing task of any OpsMgr Admin’s life. This post in NOT an “end to
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Monday, June 29, 2009 8:45 PM

Error alerts from the DNS MP – script failures, WMI Probe failed?

Updated 9/28/09 I have seen this at several customer sites, and even in my own lab. You might find the following alerts (below) stemming from the DNS MP. To start, I would recommend the resolutions in my previous post: Getting lots of Script Failed To
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Attachment(s): Custom.DNS.Addendum.MP.zip
Monday, June 29, 2009 3:24 PM

Getting lots of Script Failed To Run alerts? WMI Probe Failed Execution? Backward Compatibility Script Error?

In OpsMgr 2007, it is likely that your most common alert is not really a MP based alert from a technology management pack…. it could be a built-in alert that a script failed, or WMI could not be accessed.  This is because when WMI is broken on a
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Monday, June 22, 2009 11:52 PM

Health Service and MonitoringHost thresholds in R2 – how this has changed and what you should know

In THIS post – I described the way the agent HealthService will bounce on a regular basis, and how to alert on that, and change the thresholds.  Please see that post for details on SP1.   Now – in R2 – much of this has changed in how it works. 
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Tuesday, April 07, 2009 10:46 PM

R2 – Improved Agent Proxy Alerts

Here is a nice add in R2:  When we give you the old “agent proxy alert”, we now tell you the name of the Agent that needs agent proxy enabled, and resolve the name of the object type that it was bringing in:   Nice improvement.  I enable
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Thursday, March 26, 2009 7:50 PM

Are your agents restarting every 10 minutes? Are you sure?

**Updated 6-22-2009 – This post applies to SP1 ONLY!!!  This architecture has changed for R2.  The version of this article updated for R2 is located here:  http://blogs.technet.com/kevinholman/archive/2009/06/22/health-service-and-monitoringhost-thresholds-in-r2-how-this-has-changed-and-what-you-should-know.aspx
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Attachment(s): Custom.Agent.Restart.Alert.MP.zip
Friday, March 20, 2009 3:02 PM

The Cluster Service will automatically restart itself

Something I ran across with a customer. There aren’t many situations where service recoveries run automatically in Microsoft MP’s, but this is one case where they do.  The cluster service running is critical to a healthy cluster.  In the current
Posted by kevinhol | 1 Comments
Wednesday, February 25, 2009 2:20 AM

Applying an OpsMgr hotfix to a RMS Cluster node? Some things to be aware of.

  When you apply a SCOM hotfix to a RMS cluster, you need to be aware of some issues, and some workarounds.  This is something I have seen several times in the field…   On any server/agent, the Hotfix installer will stop any discovered
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Friday, February 20, 2009 6:27 PM

Getting and keeping the SCOM agent on a Domain Controller – how do YOU do it?

I’d like to hear some community feedback on this….   In OpsMgr – deploying a SCOM agent to a DC often presents companies with a bit of a challenge.  The reason is – in order to install software to a DC and manage it – we need rights on the DC
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Tuesday, January 27, 2009 5:35 PM

Console based Agent Deployment Troubleshooting table

This post is a list of common agent push deployment errors… and some possible remediation options.     Most common errors while pushing an agent:   Error Error Code(s) Remediation Steps The MOM Server could not execute WMI Query "Select
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Monday, September 29, 2008 7:57 PM

Agent Pending Actions can get out of synch between the Console, and the database

When you look at your agent pending actions in the Administration pane of the console.... you will see pending actions for things like approving a manual agent install, agent installation in progress, approving agent updates, like from a hotfix, etc.
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Friday, July 11, 2008 9:47 PM

Helper Objects are not copied to gateways

Something I noticed today..... when you deploy a gateway server - the helper object oomads.msi was not copied to the local \ AgementManagement directory for agent push. This means, that if you have a DC in the untrusted forest, managed by a gateway, that
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Friday, June 27, 2008 11:11 PM

A report to show all agents missing a specific hotfix

This is a continuation of my previous post on determining which agents are missing a hot-fix: How do I know which hotfixes have been applied to which agents- I wrote up a report that allows you to paste in a KB article number into the report as a parameter,
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Attachment(s): Agents_Missing_Hotfix_Report.rdl
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