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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.

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

Manual SCOM agent certificate signing

[https://vleeuwen.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/linux-ms.png]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

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