To all the IT Zombies out there, I’ll continue posting more stuff after the New Year, but until then I want to tell everyone to enjoy this with family, friends and co-workers.
I only ask that each of you take to stop and help total strangers; in return your actions should encourage them to do the same.
I am not 100% sure when Microsoft released SQL Server 2012 Release Candidate (RC). And you can download it once you register for it. I am very interested in learning if System Center Operations Manager 2012 will play nice with it, and I don’t think there will be any support for OpsMgr 2007 R2. Here is what they have to say about it.
“SQL Server 2012 will deliver mission-critical confidence with AlwaysOn availability for faster failover and greater hardware utilization and in-memory ColumnStore for 10x the data warehouse performance gains. SQL Server 2012 will also enable breakthrough insights with business intelligence solutions such as Power View for stunning, interactive data visualizations and enhancements to PowerPivot. Lastly, SQL Server 2012 will uniquely support hybrid IT environments with common management and development tools, scale elastically, and extend applications directly to the cloud through SQL Azure.”
Register to access technical product resources—such as forums, solution accelerators, white papers, and webcasts—at the SQL Server 2012 Resource Page.
Review Microsoft SQL Server 2012 RC system requirements
Register for evaluation so that you may download and install the full-featured software for 180-day trial. Receive follow-up email with resources to guide you.
Additional Information:
Bryan Heath, posted some videos that we took the time in posting to the Community Evaluation Program for Operations Manager 2012. I’ve watched them and found them useful for anyone wanting to jump right in. And like him I am a visual person that like so see what I am learning and replicate it.
Registration began today for Microsoft Management Summit 2012 (#MMS2012). If you register by January 27, 2012 you should be able to some cash. about $300 bones, for the early bird special. After that you can expect to pay $1800 for the conference itself and to stay at the Venetian Hotel, it will cost $2776.
Everything you need or want to know can be found here.
As much as I would love to go, I don’t expect that I will be able to this year, unless something special happens. I should be following the twitter feeds to keep up on everything. I did attend #MMS2011, and it was a blast; I really expect that this year will be huge with a large focus SCOM 2012.
As of today Microsoft released System Center Operations Manager 2012 Release Candidate. But in order to receive the download you’ll need to register for it here.
Here are the key things that are of interest to me taken right from the Microsoft website:
Feature Summary
In my environment where I work, I provide the System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 to hundreds of system administrators and system engineers so that they can manage and monitor more than four thousand servers, and we are still growing in monitoring each day.
The challenge is trying to get people to use the System Center Operations Manager console in our environment to monitor their systems instead of waiting until someone reports an outage and then after they all want to play the blame game. when all they needed was to have the console open and performed some monitoring.
So what if I could intergrade as much resources as I could incorporate into the SCOM console? Its Worth a thought, but this is what I have done so far to test the idea. This MP is nothing complicated of course but it is a thought I wanted to through out there, and maybe provide something on hand for other SCOM admins.
Now of course my working environment doesn’t have access to the internet, but for those of you that do have access to the internet enjoy.
Please provide feedback, that is always nice.
download: HERE
Things that I have taken away from the September 6 Video Conference.
A question I asked, was if the Maintenance Mode will allow for re-occurring scheduling for a system(s). Example a script is ran on a certain day and time each month, can we pre-schedule this in advance? If I get a response I’ll apply to the comments.
- Okay now, got some homework to do
Next Meeting: September 20, 8:00 AM PT Dashboards
Here are some notes & things that I’ve taken from the the OM 2012 Beta Video Conference.
I want to ask everyone if they had to identify and all modifications that had to make to support SCOM.
What are some recommendations to run SCOM over a domain with the proper permissions, functions and so forth from a domain GPO?
Please leave your comments:
One of my customers gave me a requirement some time ago that they wanted to upgrade their MOM 2005 infrastructure to SCOM 2007 R2. There only requirement was that was provided was that there must be a fail-over system incase there is a site isolation.
So after reviewing their current capabilities and other available resources to support their requirements, the option that was best for their environment was two separate management groups separated by geographic locations.
To keep the systems identical, the duplication of work can be a pain at times. And when the site became isolated due to a hurricane, flooding, power outages and other nature disasters that occurred; monitoring continued.
There you go, nothing complicated, just something to think about when you have to provide continuous monitoring for a customer(s). Just happy customers
BIG 40!!!!!
I can see everything from up here. Well I guess it is time to start heading down.
The family and I went out of town for the week of vacation one last time before everything goes back to a normal routine. We went to Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, stayed in a log cabin and did a lot of sight seeing. We really had a great time there.
But now I have a lot to catch up on now.
A while back a zombie pushed a large number of agents out to be installed. Without waiting until the job completed on the first management group, the zombie pushed the agents out to the same systems from another management group.
The end result was some of the systems showed up in one of the management groups as “Healthy” while the other system either failed to install the agent or it showed up as “Not Monitored”.
Here is what Worked for me:
This worked for SCOM 2007 R2 and I bet SCOM 2012 it would resolve the same issue.
I’ve encountered this issue this afternoon, after re-building my OpsMgr2012. From my computer I received this “404 – File or Directory not found”.
I tried to verify this from my server, which I showed a different error, just more details. Nothing populated into my event logs on either system.
What I really liked about getting this error was that It showed me how helpful the application is. The error populated a lot of information about causes, path that failed and some resolutions etc.It allow me to link Microsoft support site directly through the web console, where I was able to gather the resolution for the 404.2 error.
Nothing difficult, just something I thought was neat.
Made the changes, verified my work, tested and Bingo! working on both of my systems. I also verified the reporting as well just in case I broke something else.
Well, I did get my OM2012 operational and running with a couple of problems along the way. Resolved the issues and decided to revert my image to a staged starting point and go through the process again. Will I run into a problem this time? How well do I understand the process Microsoft provided from their documentation? What can I resolve if I come across that path?
Once I have this running, I will move on to other stuff with OM12 or OM02.
Here is the recommended limits for OpsMgr 2012 from the Supported Configurations guide:
| Monitored Item | Recommended Limit |
| Simultaneous Operations consoles | 50 |
| Agent monitored computers reporting to a management server | 3,000 |
| Agent monitored computers reporting to a gateway server | 2,000 |
| Agentless Exception Monitored computers per dedicated management server | 25,000 |
| Agentless Exception Monitored computers per management group | 100,000 |
| Collective client monitored computers per management server | 2,500 |
| Management servers per agent for multihoming | 4 |
| Agentless managed computers per management server | 10 |
| Agentless managed computers per management group | 60 |
| Agent-managed and UNIX or Linux computers per management group | 6,000 (with 50 open consoles); 10,000 (with 25 open consoles |
| UNIX or Linux computers per dedicated management server | 500 |
| UNIX or Linux computers monitored per dedicated gateway server | 100 |
| URLs monitored per dedicated management server | 3000 |
| URLs monitored per dedicated management group | 12,000 |
| URLs monitored per agent | 50 |
Straight from the Operations Manager 2012 Supported Configurations guide:
As I monitored my OpsMgr console, I notice my Operations Web Console suddenly became unavailable. So I fired up the web console and received this error along with some details.
Details:
Could not load type 'System.ServiceModel.Activation.HttpModule' from assembly 'System.ServiceModel, Version=3.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089'
Resolution:
I came across Bruno Wouters post helping other with the exact same issue. The only difference was that I was running this in OpsMgr 2012.
use the ASP.NET IIS Registration Tool or ASP.NET Side-by-Side Overview and execute the “aspnet_regiis.exe –iru” utilizing the command prompt as an administrator and navagete to the systemroot\Microsoft.NET\Framework\versionNumber
After I completed that, my web console was back to normal.
I ran into this earlier today while deploying a OpsMgr Agent in my lab.
So I did some digging and found some causes that this would appear. Depending on the description is start there, in my case it was a modification to my domain policy.
