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Updating Dell R720 I had to update a new Dell R720 server , being the first time it took a lot of time to find the details on how to do things; I downloaded the Latest SUU DVD  from: http://www.dell.com/support/drivers/us/en/555/DriverDetails/Product/poweredge-r720?driverId=T1XHC&osCode=WS8R2&fileId=3105458864&languageCode=en# Connect to the iDRAC The default username and Password fro dell iDRAC : Username : root Password: calvin Click on launch  in the Virtual Console Preview Power on the machine As the Machine boots Up we have to Press F10 During POST The steps are shown in the images as follows: You have to choose Platform Update First we can view the current updates Now we can choose to  Launch platform Update We can choose to dell  ftp Site for latest updates , or use the Local CD/DVD/USB or Network  You have to configure Networking firs...

We implemented SCOM 2012 SP1 , We imported the latest Managemnet pack for monitoring Active Directory Somehow the topology views in AD management pack always remained not monitored. Here is what i checked : The agents on DC's was installed from within SCOM console after discovery We used a domain Administrator to install the agent and then the local system account as action account the DC's started alerting and we couldn't find any errors in the event logs , however the topology views all remained not Monitored. AD helper Object was installed on all the domain controllers as the agents were pushed from SCOM Console. I ran  hslockdown /L on the Domain controllers Local System Account (our default Action account) was not denied permission. Still i tried running Hslockdown "ManagemnetGroupName" /A "NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM" But the topology views did not update. -Verified Agent proxy was enabled on all DC's and MS -All the agent...

vSphere 5.1 vCenter Virtual Appliance AD Integration When i tried to enable Active directory in  vCVA 5.1 it failed at various stages Firstly i was not able to enable Active directory in vCVA as it gave an error shown here: Once i was able to fix this error and enable it successfully , i still couldnt see the domain while adding permissions in vSphere Web Client or vSphere Client Here is the Sequence of steps i followed to make it work in our test: 1.Created a Host and PTR record for the vcenter Appliance in our Domain DNS 2.Made sure the Time zone on vCVA is set correctly 3.Make sure the Hostname of the vCVA is the one we created in the step 1 (Under network Tab) 4.Mention the IP address for DNS servers correctly 4.The username to enable Active directory should have permissions on AD and we need to specify it as user@domain.com format 5.All Services showuld be Stared and Running 6.Rebooted vCVA and the ESXi host on which it was deployed I dont...

When we enable ACS on the in SCOM environment , after a couple of days we can see what all is being collected. For us we were seeing a lot of events being collected and most of them were not useful for us to monitor: the final NOT Query filter i applied was: AdtAdmin /setquery /query:"SELECT * FROM AdtsEvent WHERE NOT (EventId=4776 OR EventId=4689 OR EventId=4688 OR EventId=4768 OR EventId=4769 OR EventId=4770 OR EventId=4771 OR EventId=4772 OR EventId=4696 OR EventId=5159 OR EventId=5152 OR EventId=5157 OR  PRIMARYUSER LIKE '%SVC%' OR PRIMARYUSER LIKE '%$%' OR TARGETUSER LIKE '%$%')" This reduced a lot of Noise in our environment. In order to enable this filter what we need to do is . Login to the ACS collector: Open command prompt Browse to the following directory: C:\Windows\System32\Security\AdtServer> Then Run the Query that i mentioned above. In the query i used PrimaryUser and TargetUser as filter PrimaryUser = Prim...