Maartendamen's blog » SCCM http://www.maartendamen.com Blogging on various IT subjects Tue, 22 Nov 2011 21:27:03 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 How to trace SCCM’s management pack alerts to concrete SCCM errors http://www.maartendamen.com/2010/03/how-to-trace-sccms-management-pack-alerts-to-concrete-sccm-errors/ http://www.maartendamen.com/2010/03/how-to-trace-sccms-management-pack-alerts-to-concrete-sccm-errors/#comments Wed, 17 Mar 2010 18:11:44 +0000 Maarten http://www.maartendamen.com/?p=234 Sometimes it’s a bit tricky to relate events generated by the SCCM management pack for SCOM to real SCCM errors.
This article helps you to trace down the real SCCM error by using a real world example..

Let’s start by looking at the alert generated by the management pack in the SCOM console:

sccm_error

Notice the two items marked:

  • Component
  • Message ID

In this example the component affected is SMS_DISTRIBUTION_MANAGER and the message ID is 2302.
Now let’s start the SCCM management console, drill down to Site Database -> System Status -> Site Status -> Your site name -> Component Status.

sccm_error4

The right pane should now give you a list of all the SCCM components,  note the SMS_DISTRIBUTION_MANAGER and the error count:

sccm_error3

Now right click the component with errors and select “Show Messages -> All”
A message status viewer will now popup showing some detailed information about the error:

sccm_error2

Note that the message ID of the error reported by the management pack is listed here. This should give you some in-depth information about the error.
I hope this article helps you to trace alerts generated by SCOM down to the real SCCM errors.

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We work with Microsoft’s SCCM to install Windows updates on server systems.
I was looking for a way to embed the SCCM client within the base image.
Microsoft has some information available on the subject right here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb694095.aspx
There is not alot of information available on step 3 of this documentation. To complete this step you need the command line tool called “ccmdelcert.exe” which is available in the Systems Management Server 2003 Toolkit 2 (SCCM 2007′s precursor), you can download the toolkit here:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sms/bb676787.aspx

Here’s a short result of the command-line tool:

ccmdelcert

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