Tag: System Center

Operations Manager 2012 R2 Management Pack Dependencies

I am not proficient at managing Ops Manager.  I am at best a competent tinkerer.  I have been needing to do some clean up on our Ops Manager installation, and clear some management packs that are not used, or just used to generate noise that we subsequently ignore.  That is a bit of an annoying… Continue reading Operations Manager 2012 R2 Management Pack Dependencies

Goals (or interests) for this year

I said I want to make it to 175 posts (from 148 posts).  I have been thinking (for at least 5 minutes) that one way to do that is to write about some of the things that I want to work on.  Then I could share my progress, as well as the lessons learned from… Continue reading Goals (or interests) for this year

Error after upgrading Orchestrator to 2012 R2

After upgrading from System Center Orchestrator 2012 sp1 to 2012 R2, my Runbooks weren’t running via my scheduled tasks.  After some digging, I figured out that I couldn’t open the Orchestration Console, because I kept getting this error: Error executing the current operation. [HttpWebRequest_WebException_RemoteServer] Arguments: NotFound Debugging resource strings are unavailable. Often the key and… Continue reading Error after upgrading Orchestrator to 2012 R2

Error (415) adding a host to SCVMM 2012 sp1

I kept having errors adding hosts to a VMM server, even though all of the prereqs were met.   I received the following errors every time I tried to add the hosts: Error (415) Agent installation failed copying C:\Program Files\Microsoft System Center 2012\Virtual Machine Manager\agents\I386\3.1.6011.0\msiInstaller.exe to \\<hostname>\ADMIN$\msiInstaller.exe. The specified network name is no longer available Recommended… Continue reading Error (415) adding a host to SCVMM 2012 sp1

Using SCOJobRunner

We have started using System Center Orchestrator (2012 SP1) to do some automation.  Most of what we have done so far could be done outside of Orchestrator pretty easily.  Having it in Orchestrator makes it easier to keep track of all the automated tasks that we have.  ( A central repository in theory.) I have… Continue reading Using SCOJobRunner