SCOM reports fail with error "System.ArgumentOutOfRangeException"

SCOM reports fail with error "System.ArgumentOutOfRangeException" 

Cause:

This issue can occur if the custom Short DateTime format being used on the console server.

For example, say the system locale on the Operations console server is ENC and the default short DateTime format for ENC locale is dd/MM/yyyy. If this short DateTime format is changed from dd/MM/yyyy to a different format such as yyyy-MM-dd, the error above may occur.


Resolution:

To resolve this issue, set the short DateTime format to the system locale's default value.

SCOM 2012 Management Pack for Java

SCOM 2012 Management Pack for Java


Yes,its true,now you can monitor java applications with SCOM 2012.

Download here

SCOM 2012 : Recommended Agent OS Fixes and Updates

Find the below article on recommended Hot fixes and updated need for SCOM 2012:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2843219

SCOM 2012 SP1 upgrade fails with error "Failed to set DW upgrade scenario"

Reason:

This can occur if there is an invalid Data Warehouse server name or SRS database instance name in the registry on the Management Server.

Resolution:

To resolve this, verify that the correct Data Warehouse server name and SRS database instance name exist in the registry on the Management Server:

Data Warehouse server name Reg key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft Operations Manager\3.0\Setup\DatawarehouseDBServerName

SRS database instance name REG KEY:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft Operations Manager\3.0\Reporting\SRSInstance

Once its done, you can do the upgrade and should work fine

Exchange 2013 Management Pack for SCOM

Microsoft has release Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 Management Pack

You can Download it from here Click here

The following are some of the new features in the Exchange 2013 Management Pack:

• Simplified dashboard -->The dashboard of the Exchange 2013 Management Pack has been                          simplified and refined into the following three categories

Active Alert           - Provides a list of all outstanding alerts in your organization.

                    Organization Health - Provides an overview of the overall service health in your organization.

                     Server Health       - Provides an overview of the health of individual servers in your                           organization.

• User focused monitoring--> Exchange 2013 introduces a monitoring and recovery infrastructure called Managed Availability. Managed Availability focuses on the user experience. All Exchange 2013 components have built-in monitors that detect problems and attempt to recover the service availability. Any issues that can't be recovered automatically are escalated to the Exchange 2013 Management Pack as an alert.

Event Id 2115 in SCOM

Event Id 2115 in SCOM

Symptom:

Operations Manager Management Servers, agents or servers may be affected by a deadlock.


Cause:

This event id happens because of KB2775511.


Resolution:

Removal of KB2775511 will correct the issues.


Microsoft has recommended not install the KB till Deadlock issue is resolved

SCOM Managment server grayed out after removing from All Management Servers resource pool

• This occurs because the run-as data warehouse accounts are configured by default to  distribute to the All Management Servers resource pool only.  

• When the management server is removed from the All Management Servers resource pool the data warehouse account is no longer distributed to it, therefore any workflows requiring this account will fail and unload. The failing and unloading of the workflows will cause the management server to become grayed out.

• To resolve this issue, go to the “Data Warehouse Account” and “Data Warehouse Report Deployment Account” profiles and determine which account(s) you are using. Then, go to those accounts under Run As Configuration and change their deployment type to either “less secure”, to the specific management servers, or to the new resource pool that the management servers belong to.