SCOM 2007R2 QuickTip: Change Action Account

Before migrating the SCOM 2007R2 environment of a customer of mine, I wanted to correct the Action Account that was used by the Gatewayserver. Microsoft has a PowerShell script that allows you to set the action account on groups of computers.

it’s called “SC Ops Mgr 2007 Resource Kit – Action Account Tool” http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=14175

set-action.ps1 “domain\accountname”

For this environment it took 20 minutes for the script to run;

Computer: ‘gatewayserver.fqdn’ …changing action account

From: ‘domain\old_accountname’

To  : ‘domain\accountname’

Microsoft Visio Stencils

Most IT Pros often find themselves looking for some Visio stencils and most time you end up not finding what you want or downloading an outdated stencil. Well, your pain is over because here is a list of useful Visio stencils for Microsoft, VMware, Citrix, Dell and others.

http://www.jonathancusson.com/visio-stencils/

Thankz to Jonathan Cusson

OpsMgr: MP Update: Active Directory (AD) MP 6.0.7670.0

New Active Directory Management Pack for SCOM 2007;

http://bink.nu/news/updated-system-center-monitoring-pack-for-active-directory.aspx

Check the Manual!!

OpsMgr: MP Update: New Base OS MP 6.0.6957.0

Microsoft released a new “Base OS” ManagementPack for Operations Manager 2007. v6.0.6957.0 this version adds Cluster Shared Volume monitoring, BPA, new reports, and many other changes.

Please read the post by Kevin Holman
http://blogs.technet.com/b/kevinholman/archive/2011/09/30/opsmgr-new-base-os-mp-6-0-6956-0-adds-cluster-shared-volume-monitoring-bpa-and-many-changes.aspx

 

** Please read also the known-issues **

OpsMgr 2007 R2 CU5

Still posting; altough i’m ill at home with a fever.

The Cumulative Update 5 (CU5) for OpsMgr 2007 R2 has shipped !!

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2495674
The download link is included in the KB article [read and test before using in production]

Following issues are solved within Cumulative update 5 for Operations Manager 2007 R2:

• Restarts of non-Operations Manager services when the agent is updated is resolved.
• UI hang caused by SDK locking.
• Web console is timing out while opening the left navigation tree.
• Reports – Drill-through fails due to rsParameterTypeMismatch in the
  EnterpriseManagementChartControl.
• Reports – Edit Schedule button is disabled with SQL Server 2008 R2.
• Reports – Scheduled Reports view for Windows Server 2003 and SQL SRS 2005
  SP3 CU9 – returns System.IndexOutOfRangeException: Index was outside the bounds
  of the array.
• ACS – Event log message is truncated or corrupted in SCDW.
• ACS Filter fails for certain wildcard queries.
• ACS – Updated ACS reports
• Workflows – TCP Port Probe incorrectly reports negative ping latency.
• Workflows – MissingEvent Manual Reset Monitor does not work as expected.
• Workflows – Signed MPs cannot be imported when new attributes are added to
  existing classes