August 2009 - Posts
SC Operations Manager 2007 SP1: Remedying the Warning Alert 'SDK SPN Not Registered'
I was working on a Windows 2008 Failover Clustering Scenario when I began to observe (over several days) some 'new' Alerts in the SCOM2k7 SP1 Console. One of those new Alerts is titled 'SDK SPN Not Registered'. Upon initially seeing this Alert I, 1) logged into a Domain Controller as a Domain Admin, 2) issued the 'setspn.exe -l corp\om_sdk_and_config' Command (which responds...
Windows 2008 Failover Clustering: Using the Windows Server and Windows Cluster Management Pack in Operations Manager 2007 SP1 to Monitor Failover Clustering
Operations Manager 2007 SP1 provides a rich Toolset to manage, monitor, configure and report on Windows Servers. In this Blog entry I briefly reviewing capabilities of the Microsoft Windows Server and Microsoft Windows Cluster Management Packs focused on supporting a 3 Node Windows 2008 Failover Cluster configured with SQL 2008 Failover Cluster Services. If you have note reviewed how these Windows...
Windows 2008 Failover Clustering: Configuring SQL 2008 for Failover Clustering - Part 3 of 3
This is the third of three Blog entries where a Windows 2008 Failover Cluster is being built that consists of 3 Nodes running SQL 2008 Failover Cluster Services. In this Blog entry we begin and complete a successful installation of SQL 2008 Failover Cluster Services for all 3 Nodes of our Application Cluster. Here are the Blog entries that comprise the aggregate solution: Windows 2008 Failover Clustering...
Windows 2008 Failover Clustering: Configuring SQL 2008 for Failover Clustering - Part 2 of 3
This is the second of three Blog entries where a Windows 2008 Failover Cluster is being built that consists of 3 Nodes running SQL 2008 Failover Cluster Services. An 'Application Cluster' of this configuration is acceptable for a number of different 'Cluster Aware Applications' designed for Windows 2008 and SQL 2008 Failover Clustering. Here are the Blog entries that comprise the aggregate...
Windows 2008 Failover Clustering: Configuring SQL 2008 for Failover Clustering - Part 1 of 3
Configuring Windows 2008 Failover Clustering is another mechanism we have to make Applications 'Highly Available' for End Users. Many of the 'Windows Core Infrastructure Applications' (Operations Manager 2007, Configuration Manager 2007, etc.) require a specific version of Microsoft SQL as the Core Database Engine and/or Core Reporting Services Engine to function. In this multi-part...
