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Configuring Active Directory 2012 R2 Management Pack with SCOM 2012 R2

  • Create a Domain Admin Service Account and credentials wont be shared with the Monitoring Team.
  • Where they can push agents and update them.

Step 1:

Make sure Allow Log on locally is set to administrators by default in default domain controllers policy.

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Step 2:

  • Now you can push the SCOM Agent using the discovery wizard.
  • Use the same account for Run as . Once its discovered.
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Step 3:

Login to the Domain Controllers where we are going to monitor – Disable AD integration

'SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\HealthService\Parameters\ConnectorManager\'

EnableADIntegration REG_DWORD to ‘0’.

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Step 4:

SCOM Console – Administration – Run as Configuration – Accounts Create a Run As Account called Privileged Monitoring.

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Get the Domain Controllers alone added.

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Step 5 –

Assign the Privileged monitoring account in the AD MP Account profile.

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Step 6 –

Login to Domain Controllers – Open Power-Shell – Run as administrator –

cd "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Monitoring Agent\Agent"

"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Monitoring Agent\Agent" .\hslockdown.exe SCOMGROUNAME /l

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If you see SYSTEM is on Denied List.


cd "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Monitoring Agent\Agent"

.\hslockdown.exe SCOMGROUPNAME /R "NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM"

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Step 7


Restart Microsoft Monitoring Agent on Domain Controllers.


Make Sure Agent restarts without any Errors/Warnings.


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Now you should see.


NOTE : For Active Directory Topology view to Work . Install .Net 3.5 on all SCOM Management Servers


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Reference Events –


Log Name: Operations Manager
Source: HealthService
Event ID: 2119
Task Category: Health Service
Level: Warning
Computer: DS002.careexchange.in


Description:
Active Directory Integration has been disabled because this Health Service is running on a Domain Controller. To suppress this message, set the value

'SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\HealthService\Parameters\ConnectorManager\EnableADIntegration' 

in the registry to ‘0’.

Satheshwaran Manoharan
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3 COMMENTS

  1. You can use PowerShell to capture the Management Group & the location of the hslockdown

    ForEach ($ManagementGroup in gci “HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft Operations Manager\3.0\Agent Management Groups” | Select -ExpandProperty PSChildName) {
    Invoke-Expression $(“. ‘{0}’ {1} /R `”NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM`”” -f $(join-path (Split-Path ((Get-ItemProperty -path ‘HKLM:\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\HealthService\’).ImagePath).replace(‘”‘,”)) ‘hslockdown.exe’), $ManagementGroup)
    }; Restart-Service healthservice

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