I started to see this error as I moved servers in my test environment to Windows 2008 R2.
Alert
Name
DNS 2008 Monitor Zone Resolution Alert
Description
Zone TrustAnchors on DNS Server VDC01.Cosiris.local is not responding to queries.
Source
TrustAnchors (VDC01.Cosiris.local)
The MP is DNS 2008 MP v6.0.6480.0 and OpsMgr 2007R2.
I had not seen this before and as i was having some general [...]
This error may occur on Windows 2008 servers
Group Policy Preprocessing (Active Directory) Alert
Alert Description
Source:
Server name
The processing of Group Policy failed. Windows could not authenticate to the Active Directory service on a domain controller. (LDAP Bind function call failed). Look in the details tab for error code and description.
Active Directory Bind Monitor
Summary
Group Policy Preprocessing (Active Directory)
Group [...]
According to the Power Management MP (version 6.0.6735.0 is the first version and was released on 9th Nov 2009) the Windows 2008 R2 Server hardware that qualifies for the “Enhanced Power Management” Additional Qualification logo is at
http://www.windowsservercatalog.com/results.aspx?&chtext=&cstext=&csttext=&chbtext=&bCatID=1333&cpID=0&avc=10&ava=0&avq=30&OR=1&PGS=25&ready=0
The only ones on the list (as off 2nd Dec 09) are the following 12 HP ProLiants.
ProLiant BL280c G6 [...]
The alert “The SQL Server Service Broker or Database Mirroring transport is disabled or not configured” is one that pops up in new installations quite frequently. A typical answer is to look at the Broker part and check if it is set as in this post.
With SQL 2008 you do not have to run the [...]
Anders used to do a monthly blog post called Links During Month. He has not done one for a while and so I thought that I would have a go to summarise all the new stuff for one month. I can see why he gave it up. It is quite time consuming!
The big news is [...]
Markus Baeker has posted a connector to link SCOM and Nagios. Normally the blog is in German but this post is in English as there is now an English instruction manual and you can define English status messages.
http://www.mbaeker.de/2009/07/scom2nagios-1-2/
It is released under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
There is a thread on the OpsMgr forum about the pros and cons of having the MPs directly imported in from the web catalogue in R2. Marnix Wolf has a good post about it that summarises the issue. One of the key ones being that it bypasses the manual which is needed in most cases [...]
The DFS MP is a converted MOM 2005 MP and as can be seen by its version number(6.0.5000.0) it is quite old. It has not been updated since being converted. There was an update but that was only to the document. The October 2008 updated release of this management pack includes the following change:
References to [...]
I have blogged about Ziemek’s free disk space report before. I have run this at a customer site and they were very impressed with the report. The MP, XML and SQL query are all available at Ziemek’s blog.
There are a number of things though that you need to be aware of.
As I mentioned previously if [...]
One of the nice things about Operations Manager even from the early versions is the ability to run the prerequisite checker so you know what is required before you start the install. I recommend using this before starting to do any installs. It saves time later.
From the Quick Start Guide
When all components are selected, the [...]
