How to move the Operations Manager 2007 Reporting Server
The download able pdf has the complete steps that I took to perform a successful move of our opsmgr reporting server to a new server separate from the Data Warehouse.
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How to create a SCOM Windows Events Monitor and alert on the Description field
When creating a monitor that alerts on event logs you may want to be able to monitor based on key words in the description field. This is not a default parmater and needs a few extra steps. But is still very easy to accomplish once you now the steps.
here are the two variables you will be adding to the monitor
parameter name: EventDescription
Alert description: $Data/EventDescription$
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How to Remove Management Pack Dependencies
When you create an override and don’t save it to a custom Management Pack it will by default save to the Microsoft.SystemCenter.OperationsManager.DefaultUser.xml management pack. This will later on bite you in the ass when you want to remove the effected management pack. To avoid this of coarse you should always save changes to a custom management pack…..
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SCOM: I screwed up the OpsMgr Health Service
Have you ever seen this in Microsfts System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)?
The OpsMgr Connector could not connect to MSOMHSvc\rms01.local
haha, I have.
Using a domain account is not supported and will not allow you to start the service. But it will register a second servicePrincipalName to the domain account. If this happens the agents will no longer be able to communicate with the server. Or at least until the duplicate servicePrincipalName is removed.
I found this out during the test phase when I changed the service login account during trouble shooting the health service. (The original problem with the health service was that it would keep failing and stopping. The resolution was never found, and that was with an open Microsoft call. We reinstalled the server and that resolved it. However the servicePrincipalName was still messed up in active directory.)
The following is what I have documented and used to fix this.
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