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Service Manager AV Exclusions

Microsoft has a great wiki that outlines all the AV exclusions required for all the different Enterprise products you may have deployed in your organization.  It covers everything from AD to SQL, Failover Cluster Service to IIS, ISA and more.   You can find the Windows Anti Virus Exclusions list here.

Also included in the list is the System Center suite of products, with the exception of Service Manager.  While I am sure Microsoft will get around to updating the wiki you can use the list of files, folders and processes below to create an exclusion list for Service Manager.

Service Manager Folders

The following folder should be excluded from real time AV scanning…

%ProgramFiles%\Microsoft System Center\Service Manager 2010\Health Service State\*

Service Manager Processes

The following processes should be excluded from real time AV scanning…

%programfiles%\Microsoft System Center\Service Manager 2010\HealthService.exe

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February 17th, 2012 | Category: rodney.buike, Security, Service Manager, System Center | Leave a comment

RunAs Radio – Rodney Buike Builds Private Clouds with System Center 2012!

Richard talks to Rodney Buike about how System Center 2012 facilitates the construction of private clouds. This is where System Center all comes together – utilizing Configuration Manager, Operations Manager, Virtual Machine Manager, Service Manager and Orchestrator to create effective private cloud infrastructure in your own data center. Rodney talks about how each of the System Center components work together to simplify the deployment of services – beyond the individual VM and into a suite of VM, networking rules, storage, etc. Each of the System Center products bring something to the table in this scenario. You should already be using them for their core purposes, now take it to the next level!

Listen to the 36 minute podcast here…..

January 11th, 2012 | Category: Cloud, Configuration Manager, Opalis, Operations Manager, Service Manager, System Center, Virtual Machine Manager, Virtualization | Comments are closed

SCSM and Remote SQL Reporting Errors

System Center Service Manager 2010 leverages SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) to build reports.  Depending on the size of your Service Manager deployment you may have the Data Warehouse database running on a remote SQL server.  This will be a more common occurrence based on the Microsoft best practices of separating your management server, data warehouse server and the related database servers onto separate servers.

When you do this there is some manual configuration that needs to be performed on the Data Warehouse SQL server, or whichever server is running SSRS.  Without the configuration completed there will be five (5) management packs that will fail to import as well as a warning event of EventID: 33411 Event Source: Deployment created in the Operations Manager event log on the Data Warehouse server.  Also when you look under Reporting on the SCSM Management Console and try to view any reports, none will exist

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September 19th, 2011 | Category: rodney.buike, Service Manager, System Center | Comments are closed