Tuesday, February 14, 2017

Task to restart health service on agents

Here is a good link that should help in adding a recovery task in SCOM.

https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/scom_atlas/2015/05/21/task-to-restart-scom-health-service/ 

Once the management pack is added go to Monitoring-Windows Computer. You should see the task in the Tasks pane under Windows Computer Tasks. 

SCOM agent less monitoring access denied

Today I was facing and error with monitoring agentless servers. The agent proxy was getting access denied to event logs. In my environment the health services run under the local system account.
I added the server account to administrators on the agentless server but it did not help.
I had to change the default action account profile in console for the server to run under another action account instead of the local system action account.
Then everything was peachy…