SCOM - Dirk-Jan's log

SCOM 2007 and RHEL6

Cumulative Update 5 for System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 brings support for Red Hat 6. This update is release on August 4, 2011. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 was release on November 10, 2010. So Microsoft managed to put out an update with support for RHEL6 9 months later.

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Rootless SCOM agent setup

The setup of a SCOM agent without having to enter the root password in the SCOM management console is actually very simple. At first I thought it would be necessary to export the key by which the client certificates are signed to do the signing on the system used to

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Manual SCOM agent certificate signing

The SCOM Linux agent (scx) uses a SSL certificate to trust communication between the SCOM server and Linux agents. The SCOM server communicates with the agent running on port 1270/tcp. Normally you will deploy the agent by using the discovery wizard. The SCOM server initially makes a SSH connection

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Install SCOM agent on Red Hat Linux

The steps below describe how to install the SCOM agent on Red Hat Linux 5 x64. We don’t like to enroll the agent by using the SCOM Discovery wizard, as you need to enter the super-user (root)credentials and we’re not sure where the application stores those credentials