Comments on: Promoting MS to RMS : USE WITH CAUTION!! http://bradstechblog.com/scom/promoting-ms-to-rms-use-with-caution Microsoft technologies like: System Center Operations Manager, and whatever else comes up at the office. Mon, 22 Mar 2010 19:55:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Brad Hearn http://bradstechblog.com/scom/promoting-ms-to-rms-use-with-caution/comment-page-1#comment-494 Brad Hearn Thu, 14 Jan 2010 15:02:29 +0000 http://bradstechblog.com/?p=13#comment-494 Hi Chris, Promoting is a simple task. But make sure you follow the steps. If done wrong it can create more issues for you when you are ready to bring the original RMS online. If you need to promote your MS due to a full cluster loss. And you plan to return to the cluster after it has been resorted. Then you will need to to promote the virtual RMS only. Do not promote the nodes. If you were to do this you could introduce multiple RMS's into AD and will been then be stuck with the ugly job of cleaning up SPN's. If you need to rebuild the cluster. You would promote to the MS first. Make sure you perform a full promotion and removal of the old RMS when you do this. Rebuild your cluster and then promote it again. Send me a note if you have any questions through this. Brad Hi Chris, Promoting is a simple task. But make sure you follow the steps. If done wrong it can create more issues for you when you are ready to bring the original RMS online. If you need to promote your MS due to a full cluster loss. And you plan to return to the cluster after it has been resorted. Then you will need to to promote the virtual RMS only. Do not promote the nodes. If you were to do this you could introduce multiple RMS’s into AD and will been then be stuck with the ugly job of cleaning up SPN’s.

If you need to rebuild the cluster. You would promote to the MS first. Make sure you perform a full promotion and removal of the old RMS when you do this. Rebuild your cluster and then promote it again. Send me a note if you have any questions through this.

Brad

]]> By: Chris Rundle http://bradstechblog.com/scom/promoting-ms-to-rms-use-with-caution/comment-page-1#comment-493 Chris Rundle Thu, 14 Jan 2010 14:47:26 +0000 http://bradstechblog.com/?p=13#comment-493 If the RMS is clustered, but both nodes go down (network failure, rack destruction etc) and you promote a MS to be the temporary RMS, when the cluster is bought back online, do BOTH nodes need to be demoted/promoted to RMS, or just the virtual RMS? Same question applies if the cluster needs to be rebuilt - in that case there would still be a clustered MS to demote/promote. Thanks. If the RMS is clustered, but both nodes go down (network failure, rack destruction etc) and you promote a MS to be the temporary RMS, when the cluster is bought back online, do BOTH nodes need to be demoted/promoted to RMS, or just the virtual RMS? Same question applies if the cluster needs to be rebuilt – in that case there would still be a clustered MS to demote/promote.
Thanks.

]]> By: Paul Theuma http://bradstechblog.com/scom/promoting-ms-to-rms-use-with-caution/comment-page-1#comment-476 Paul Theuma Tue, 01 Sep 2009 21:55:05 +0000 http://bradstechblog.com/?p=13#comment-476 Do you know if they have sorted this out in SP2 or hav eyou tried it as yet. Cheers Do you know if they have sorted this out in SP2 or hav eyou tried it as yet.
Cheers

]]> By: max inglis http://bradstechblog.com/scom/promoting-ms-to-rms-use-with-caution/comment-page-1#comment-3 max inglis Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:02:44 +0000 http://bradstechblog.com/?p=13#comment-3 I love it when the MS tech guys haven't actually tried this stuff themselves... I love it when the MS tech guys haven’t actually tried this stuff themselves…

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