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SCOM Nworks 5.5 : Virtual Center deconnection / VC200 Exception

No comments · Posted by Christopher Keyaert in OpsMgr / Scom, VMWare

Issue :
Yesterday, I upgraded our Acceptance environment with the version 5.5 of Nworks SCOM MP. And since this upgrade, I have every 5 minutes a disconnection from our Virtual Center servers.
Event Type: Information
Event Source: nworksSource
Event Type: Error
Event Source: nworksSource
Event Category: None
Event ID: 61
Date: 7/15/2010
Time: 9:38:24 AM
User: N/A
Computer: xxxxxxxx
Description:
VC200 Exception connecting to vCenter server xxxxxxxx, Exception: The operation has timed out. VC events will no longer be captured from this system.
Event Type: Information
Event Source: nworksSource
Event Category: None
Event ID: 62
Date: 7/15/2010
Time: 9:39:25 AM
User: N/A
Computer: xxxxxxxx
Description:
VC201 Connection restored to vCenter server xxxxxxxx. VC event capture from this system will resume.

Solution :
The issue has something to do with the VC creating an event filter.
For fixing it, locate files named “vcEvents.xml” on each collector (the default location is C:\Program Files\nworks\VIC\Collector\Resources). Back up these files, because it will be necessary to make changes to them.
Open the files with Notepad,
replace
severity=”verbose”
to
severity=”info”

for all events with “verbose” severity. Restart the collector after that, normally the issue is fixed.

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Jul/10

13

SCOM : Maintenance Mode History / Report

1 Comment · Posted by Christopher Keyaert in OpsMgr / Scom, PowerShell

By powershell :
http://blogs.technet.com/b/brianwren/archive/2008/03/11/mms-command-shell-presentation.aspx

$mc = get-monitoringClass -name Microsoft.Windows.Computer
$mo = get-monitoringObject -monitoringClass $mc | where {$_.name -eq ‘srv01′}
$mo | get-maintenanceWindow -history

By SQL :
maintenance mode history is available in the OperationsManager database or DW using this query

select * from dbo.vMaintenanceModeHistory

By a specific management pack :
http://www.systemcentercentral.com/tabid/145/indexId/70867/Default.aspx

This MP includes a report that allows tracking of who is using maintenance mode to disable monitoring and reports the maintenance start, end, comment, user id and reason code.

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Christopher Keyaert
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