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Windows Server 2008 NLB MP for OpsMgr released

Posted on April 29, 2009 by Sam T

Don’t know how I missed this when writing the last post, but Microsoft released the MP for Windows Server 2008 NLB yesterday (28/4 -09). This is the initial release for Win2k8 NLB so I guess we just have to try it out then.

Quick Details

File Name:	Microsoft Server 2008 Network Load Balancing System Center Operations Manager 2007 MP.msi
Version:	6.0.6573.0
Date Published:	4/28/2009
Language:	English
Download Size:	519 KB

Feature Summary

Monitor the NLB Node status.
Based on the status of individual cluster nodes, determine the overall state of the cluster.
Where an integration management pack exists, determine the health state of a cluster node by looking at the health state of the load balanced application, such as IIS.
Alert on errors and warnings that are reported by the NLB driver, such as an incorrectly configured NLB cluster.
Take the node out of the NLB cluster if the underlying load-balanced application becomes unhealthy, and add the node back to the cluster when the application becomes healthy again.

Requires OpsMgr 2007 SP1 or later, the Base Operating System MP for 2008, the QFEs for Windows Server 2008 and that you are not running the converted 2003 NLB MP. If you are running the old converted NLB MP, upgrade first. As an additional recommendation, Microsoft recommends in the MP Guide that you install the QFE for wmiprvse.exe problems on Windows Server 2008.

No support for Mixed-mode (2008 and 2003) clusters though.

Categories: OpsMgr 2007 | Tags: Management Pack, OpsMgr

“Error doing IIS Discovery” in OpsMgr

Posted on April 29, 2009 by Sam T

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I have seen this error popping up every now and then at multiple customer sites and haven’t really been able to solve it yet. It does not look like I am alone either.
The error message usually looks like this:

Error doing IIS Discovery

Error: 0x80070002
Details: The system cannot find the file specified.

One or more workflows were affected by this.

Workflow name: Microsoft.Windows.InternetInformationServices.2003.DiscoverBase
Instance name: Microsoft.Windows.InternetInformationServices.2003.ServerRole
Instance ID: {A81E4808-4D05-9BFE-4043-DC668527F2D0}
Management group: MASKED

Or…

Error doing IIS Discovery

Error: 0x80070006
Details: The handle is invalid.

One or more workflows were affected by this.

Workflow name: Microsoft.Windows.InternetInformationServices.2000.DiscoverWebSites26to50
Instance name: IIS Web Server
Instance ID: {D36DA76A-027F-8F3E-4160-115279A1E23A}
Management group: MASKED

I have been trying to figure out what file is missing and/or if the “invalid handle” is related. Possibly a file-handle? Could be but not neccesary since these two errors occur on different servers with increasing repeat-count (atleast once-a-day). The IIS MP does call the IIS*.VBS Scripts in %windir%System32 but as far as I can tell, on the systems I have tried it on, the scritps return valid data. This does by no means mean that there is no error and evidently I am missing something. But what? Does anyone have a clue to this?

References and other victims:

“Error Doing IIS Discovery” on Google
“SCOM: IIS Discovery Probe Module Failed Execution” on Codejnki’s Blog
“Error doing IIS Discovery Error: 0×80070006″ on TechNet Forums
“IIS Discovery Probe Module Execution Failure” on Digital Support Forum
“IIS Discovery Probe Module Execution Failure” on EggHeadCafe
“IISDiscoveryProbe Error – any ideas?” on Microsoft Discusson Groups

And no, neither of these provides even a hint to a working solution.

Categories: OpsMgr 2007 | Tags: Errors, Management Pack, OpsMgr

MSMQ 3 MP for OpsMgr v.6.0.6587.0 Released

Posted on April 28, 2009 by Sam T

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Last friday, 24/4 -09, Microsoft released an updated Management Pack for MSMQ 3.0.

Quick Details

File Name:	Message Queuing System Center Operations Manager 2007 MP.MSI
Version:	6.0.6587.0
Date Published:	4/24/2009
Language:	English
Download Size:	502 KB

Release History

6/3/2008 – Initial Release, version 6.0.6278.23. Refer to the MP guide for further details.
4/24/2009 – Undated release, version 6.0.6587.0. Refer to the MP guide for further details.

The MP Guide does not really say much about what’s updated and I don’t know how much more than the reporting they have fixed. I can just state the fact that support for clustered MSMQ 3 instances is still missing.

Categories: OpsMgr 2007 | Tags: Management Pack, MSMQ, OpsMgr

NetworkAdapterCheck.vbs fails on Windows 2000

Posted on April 26, 2009 by Sam T

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Here’s my summary of the problems with the NetworkAdapterCheck.vbs script in the Windows Server 2000 Operating System Management Pack för Operations Manager 2007 that is causing the failed to create System.PropertyBagData error i wrote about earlier.
This information in also available on https://connect.microsoft.com/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=432627&SiteID=446

Symptoms

This “research” comes from getting an obscene amounts of Script or Executable Failed to run in the Operations Console. Each time it was the NetworkAdapterCheck.vbs script that could not create PropertyBagData. The error message copied from one of the alerts looks like this:

The process started at 14:29:26 failed to create System.PropertyBagData, no errors detected in the output. The process exited with 0

Command executed: "C:WINNTsystem32cscript.exe" /nologo "NetworkAdapterCheck.vbs" MASKEDCOMPUTERNAME 0 false true false
Working Directory: C:Program FilesSystem Center Operations Manager 2007Health Service StateMonitoring Host Temporary Files 2882781

One or more workflows were affected by this.

Workflow name: Microsoft.Windows.Server.2000.NetworkAdapter.NetworkAdapterConnectionHealth
Instance name: 0
Instance ID: {F4C478D3-38E5-8C29-3957-E3B7F486216E}
Management group: MASKED

This error repeats almost as often as the script is scheduled to run and appears on almost every Windows 2000 server.

Got “failed to create System.PropertyBagData” in OpsMgr?

Posted on April 21, 2009 by Sam T

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On several systems at different sites I’ve noticed an abundance of the following errors in the Operations Manager 2007 logs:

Event Type:    Warning
Event Source:    Health Service Modules
Event Category:    None
Event ID:    21405
Date:        2009-04-21
Time:        09:00:26
User:        N/A
Computer:    MASKED
Description:
The process started at 09:00:26 failed to create System.PropertyBagData, no errors detected in the output.  The process exited with 0</pre>
Command executed:    "C:WINNTsystem32cscript.exe" /nologo "NetworkAdapterCheck.vbs" MASKEDCOMPUTER.DOMAIN 7 false true false Working Directory:    C:Program FilesSystem Center Operations Manager 2007Health Service StateMonitoring Host Temporary Files 150958

One or more workflows were affected by this.

Workflow name: Microsoft.Windows.Server.2000.NetworkAdapter.NetworkAdapterConnectionHealth
Instance name: 7
Instance ID: {A6F89C78-1217-578E-B03D-5ED377A9A40B}
Management group: MASKED

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

Always the “NetworkAdapterCheck.vbs”. Always “The process exited with 0″ which usually means that life is A-OK.

This may be a result of your AV-software blocking the scripts.
The first thing to do would be to exclude HealthService.exe and MonitoringHost.exe. If this doesn’t work, try excluding the entire C:Program FilesSystem Center Operations Manager 2007Health Service State directory.

There is a bug-report on Microsoft Connect that you can add your vote to if you cannot get rid of the problem. But ofcourse, if you have a solution, do post it here or on the bug-report.

Categories: OpsMgr 2007 | Tags: Errors, OpsMgr

Clearing Disabled Discovery in OpsMgr 2007

Posted on April 20, 2009 by Sam T

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Jonathan Almquist has posted (a while ago) an article on how to clear discovered objects after you have disabled the discovery rules in OpsMgr that I think deserves a notion.

Categories: OpsMgr 2007 | Tags: How-To, OpsMgr, Script

Let’s split!

Posted on April 16, 2009 by Sam T

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Now would you look at that.

Since my old site, Tranquillity.se, got messy and unfocused I have now started a new one. That’s right, you’re looking at it.

Instead of blogging about mostly anything like I did before I have decided to split it into Three sites. This one for the Technical stuff, some other site I haven’t set up yet, and a personal blogg for the… personal blogging… stuff.

When time gives, I will import the old tech-related posts from Tranquillity.se into this site but for now. Nothing yet so far.

Have a nice day!

Categories: Technobabble

Windows Server 2008 NLB MP for OpsMgr released

Quick Details

Feature Summary

“Error doing IIS Discovery” in OpsMgr

References and other victims:

MSMQ 3 MP for OpsMgr v.6.0.6587.0 Released

Quick Details

Release History

NetworkAdapterCheck.vbs fails on Windows 2000

Symptoms

Got “failed to create System.PropertyBagData” in OpsMgr?

Clearing Disabled Discovery in OpsMgr 2007

Let’s split!

kaTWEET!

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