SCOM 1807 Universal Linux Monitoring

Recently discovered that some of the CentOS boxes that I've pushed the agent into came up as “Version Unknown” at the UNIX/Linux Computers within the Administration space in the SCOM console.

Checking further, there’s no monitoring data for the usual CPU / Memory / Logical Disk and Network from the servers.

Did a bit of troubleshooting and realized that from the “Microsoft System Center 1807 MP for UNIX and Linux” downloaded here, it seems to be missing the “Microsoft.Linux.Universal.Monitoring.mp”

Once imported the relevant mp from the SCOM 1801 media (notice the version difference), all started to work again

Agent Installation Error (Error Code : 80072971)

At times,we might experience another frequently seen error as below, where the agent management task status displays something like “….failed to acquire lock to remote computer….”

 

This is due to when SCOM agent is pushed from the SCOM Management Server, the MS will first copy the install (& the patches) to the target machine at c:\windows\422C3AB1-32E0-4411-BF66-A84FEEFCC8E2 folder, and if you managed to browse to the folder,there should be a file named LockTimeFile. This file is to determine which SCOM MS is attending the target server at the moment.

By default, once the installation is completed, the folder will be automatically deleted when the installation completes, however there is changes that the folder / files are not successfully removed.

In order to resolve this, one of the way is to delete the LockTimeFile and the SCOM agent was successfully installed

Agent Installation Error (Error Code :80004005)

Faced a problem recently when trying to upgrade the version of the SCOM agent to the latest 2012 R2.
Error message is similar to the below
The Operations Manager Server could not execute WMI Query "Select * from Win32_Environment where NAME='PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE'"
Operation: Agent Install
Install account: <SCOM runAs>
Error Code: 80004005
Error Description: Unspecified error This is due the 'PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE' variable, does not return a value, which causes agent push to failed. (the manual installation seemed to work though) Checking on the web and it does not seemed to have a permanent solution, however, there is a workaround which should help to complete the agent installation via push method. Many thanks to stefanroth.net for such sharing