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“Run Program” Activity Fails against Windows 2003 Client

 Activities, Bugs, Orchestrator 2012, System Center  No Responses »
May 282012
 

I have opened this bug report on Connect and am curious as to if anyone else has run into this issue as well. If you have, please vote it up – it appears there isn’t much about this issue that I can find online. Some users report a fault in a .NET module while others, like me, notice the behavior below. Text of bug report follows.

When attempting to use “Run Program” against Windows 2003 Server the run book immediately fails.
From the Runbook Tester, you’ll receive an immediate error of “Could not start the Orchastrator Run Program Service service on <server> – The service did not respond to to the start or control request in a timely fashion”

From the side of the server, event viewer states that “Timeout (30000 milliseconds) waiting for the Orchestrator Run Program Service service to connect”

Based on those errors, and the additional information obtained from http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/scogeneral/thread/0a120a12-8514-44cf-991a-cd6d86da28a9
and
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/scogeneral/thread/ebf059ac-44cc-43b7-82d1-fbc03b063e7e

Additionally, slightly before that event, this occurred for the same user:
Description:
Windows saved user <DOMAIN\SCORCHACCT> registry while an application or service was still using the registry during log off. The memory used by the user’s registry has not been freed. The registry will be unloaded when it is no longer in use.
This is often caused by services running as a user account, try configuring the services to run in either the LocalService or NetworkService account.

and this is from the Audit log when the SCO account attempted to access the remote server
Special privileges assigned to new logon:
User Name: uname
Domain: dom
Logon ID: (0×0,0xC4FE95)
Privileges: SeSecurityPrivilege
SeBackupPrivilege
SeRestorePrivilege
SeTakeOwnershipPrivilege
SeSystemEnvironmentPrivilege
SeLoadDriverPrivilege
SeImpersonatePrivilege

It appears that the application seems to be faulting with the communication with the server somewhere along the line. The above forum posts list a possible, fault, but I am unable to even get it that far.

This has been tested on both Windows 2003 Enterprise Server (32-bit) and Windows 2003 Standard Server (64bit) and the exact same issues appear for both.

 

The Orchestrator Peg in the System Center Hole

 Orchestrator 2010, System Center  3 Responses »
Jan 312012
 

In 2009 Microsoft acquired Opalis. They made some improvements to it, and this year they re-wrote it, renamed it “Orchestrator”, and placed it under the “System Center” moniker. It’s a tool aimed at process automation. We’ve been told repeatedly that it’s aimed at ‘non-developers’ and that it’s drag and drop Runbooks would facilitate quick and easy automation for everyone, freeing up the System Admins from having to figure out exactly what the end user wants.

Now, in theory, this sounds pretty nice, right? We don’t have to try to decipher exactly what people want, nor do we have to take up our valuable time by working on a complicated automation. Now, I run into two issues with this. One being that although runbooks are easier than coding up a solution, it’s still not easy enough for the average end user. So we’ll still end up doing it – but hey, at least it’ll be quicker, right? Maybe. And two – this is just yet another automation tool in the System Center family – one that’s fairly ripe with it, considering that every System Center tool offers some kind of automation already builtin.

So what’s it good for then?

Good question. And I’ve think I’ve found a few traditional solutions for it – the largest being that it can act as a mediator in between different systems, especially those that are on different platforms. So it will make a nice middleware piece to quickly integrate data retrieved from a Windows application into a Unix application. While everyone should be using web services these days for data transformation, it just doesn’t exist at the level I’d like to see. So this is a nice fix – not exactly a bandaid, but not the most robust solution ever, either.

However, Orchestrator is kind of awesome for doing crazy things with it. Which is what I’m going to show you. Read on to learn the scenario and what we’re going to do.

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I’ve returned! SQL Query guide updates

 SCOM, SQL  No Responses »
Jan 272012
 

Hello friends! Yes, I know, it’s been awhile. I’ve been busy working. Now, not so busy, not so much working. So if you’re hiring, well let me know.

One of the reasons I reduced the amount of posting I did was I had already done all of the cool stuff you could do with SCOM. The regular day-to-day BS maintenance stuff is not fun for me. Nor is reposting every single press release Microsoft releases like a lot of my brethren. So I didn’t post much, just did my own thing.

But now with the upcoming release of Operations Manager 2012 there will be so many new, cool things to do with it! Not to mention I’ve extended my System Center fun to the other members of the family, and we should see some cool stuff happening.

To kick things off I’ve cleaned up and added to my Useful SCOM SQL Queries list. I’ve also uploaded it as both a PDF and as a .SQL file. So you can play with that for the time being while I finish up a few other things I’m working on.

MMS 2011 Early Bird registration ends today!

 Community  1 Response »
Feb 142011
 

MMS 2011 Design

Happy Valentine’s Day everyone! Today is the last day you can sign up for MMS 2011 at the special “early bird” pricing! Either you – or more preferably your company – can save $275! Tomorrow they move to the standard pricing, so register now and be sure to say hi to me and pick up some random Pavleck.net schwag!

Curious as to what I’m interested in this year? No worries, here’s my .ics for it. If we’ll be at the same place at the same time let me know.

SCOM 2007 R2 VHD Test Drive & 2012 thoughts

 R2, SCOM, SCOM 2012  4 Responses »
Feb 122011
 

Just in case you were interested in test driving Operations Manager 2007 R2, Microsoft published a VHD several days ago, you can download it here.

I’m curious as to why it’s only available as a 13 part RAR file, and doesn’t use the typical MS File Transfer Manager like we get on MSDN to download it one big bundle – or at least the option to get it that way. It’s a little odd.

Also, I’ve been messing around with a VM of Operations Manager 2012, now at CTP3. My initial thoughts? It looks a lot like 2007, which isn’t bad.

The best part? It actually tells you when it’s “thinking”. No more does it just lock up with the old green revolving bar at some random point while it’s collecting it’s thoughts – it actually tells you what it is doing!

 

More thoughts as I play with it!

Expect great things

 News, Pavleck.NET  No Responses »
Jan 072011
 

professor-farnsworth Good News, Everyone!

 

It’s been quite some time since I’ve really gotten to roll up my sleeves and get dirty with SCOM. And that’s about to change. I’ve recently accepted a position at Certified Security Solutions as a Senior Consultant. My role? To do the same Operations Manager stuff I haven’t been able to do for the past couple of years. 2011 is starting to look good!

I start this Monday, the 10th, where I’ll be flying out to Cleveland for a week to do the usual meet & greets as well as get a big picture on what they’re looking to do.

So, with any luck, you’ll see a new flurry of activity here on my humble blog as I return to my usual self; finding new and innovative ways to use, and abuse, OpsMgr and now the whole System Center family!

I can’t wait!

Is it done yet, is it done yet, is it done yet?

 Community, Guides, Pavleck.NET, SCOM, Web Service  No Responses »
Nov 122010
 

So, I’ve received a few (Read: a metric ton) of comments regarding if my eBook and Webservice is done yet.

In short: No.

In long: Yes, but no, well sort of.

So I had a lot of bad things that went down in my personal life. I was laid off, the wife and I separated, etc etc. So mentally I was able to devote as much time as I had hoped to this endeavor – though I do have a decent ground work laid for it.

But there’s another problem  now.

Being unemployed for as long as I was, I had to sacrifice some things to get by. I had to sell the servers I used for my virtual SCOM infrastructure. So now I don’t really have a machine capable of running OpsMgr + all the additional VMs I need to setup all of the various environments to testing and deployments to.

Did you want to help? I’d love it if you could!

What I need right now to finish all of this:

A proper server. If anyone has one for sale, or to loan to me for awhile (1 year or so), I can get this whole thing back up and running.

I’m looking for something like a Dell Poweredge T610 – a dual processor capable machine with plenty of ram and disk. It doesn’t have to have the extra proc (Though that would be awesome) or be fully populated with ram and drives – but it would be helpful.

If you have one for sale or loan, and would like to be my very best friend, please send me an email to jpavleck.servers@gmail.com – I’ll get back to you ASAP and be sure to credit you with saving these 2 projects. And, as a special gift, when I release the “pro” version of the Web Service Connector, you and your company will receive a free license to it – as well as support – for free! This will easily be a $5,000 value!

So lets see if the community out there can rally around and help me get this done!

Oh, and likewise, if you’d rather send me $2,500 so I can just buy the server, well I can do that too. Send an email to the same place.

I’m fairly certain nothing will come from this post, but I’m putting it out there just in case there’s some kind soul who can help me out.

Thanks,

Jeremy

PowerShell Cookbook v2 Mirror

 Powershell  1 Response »
May 222010
 

In case you guys missed it, Lee Holmes had a ‘review’ copy of the upcoming PowerShell 2.0 Cookbook on the O’Reilly website for a bit. It has since been taken down in preparation for it’s August 15th release. It just so happens that when it was up it was under a Creative Commons license, which means I could distribute it. So I made a mirror on March 29th, and have now placed the book in its entirety online. Enjoy! You can also download it as a PDF if you’d prefer, with all links and such intact. If you like it, and I’m sure you will, then I highly encourage you to support Lee and buy a copy. And support me too and use my Amazon associate linked version. Or don’t support me, and use this link instead. Cheers!

Visio and Sharepoint 2010 Extensions for OpsMgr

 SCOM, Tools  No Responses »
Apr 212010
 

From the MOMTeam

If you’re looking for a reason to roll out Visio 2010, have I got a doozie for you!

Using the new Visio 2010 add-in for OpsMgr 2007 R2 and the SharePoint 2010 Visio Services Data Provider, you’ll be able to create a visio-based view of a web application, a service, or even an infrastructure (Or even import one with the OpsMgr add-in for Visio 2007) then publish it to SharePoint 2010 as a web drawing.

Once you’ve done that, you’ll get a ‘live’ view of what your environment looks like – in the way you want to see it. Perfect for a big board application in a NOC!

And there’s some even neater things coming down the pipe. Check out this MMS 2010 keynote to see this and more in action!

And go pick up the downloads from Visio Toolbox while you’re at it!

Hopefully I’ll have a nice little tutorial about how to set all of this up, as I need to rebuild my OpsMgr environment several times over the next 30 days to ensure I’m ready to go for my next assignment! Can never have too much practice, right?

http://blogs.technet.com/blogfiles/momteam/WindowsLiveWriter/VISIOANDSHAREPOINT2010EXTENSIONSFOROPERA_13679/clip_image004_2.jpg

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