Getting started
Install the Management Pack by importing the ActiveRoles.SCOM.MP.xml file into System Center Operations Manager (SCOM). You can install this Management Pack on the following SCOM versions:
- System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2
- System Center 2012 - Operations Manager
- System Center Operations Manager 2016
- System Center Operations Manager 2019
Monitoring Active Roles Administration Service
This section briefly discusses the processing rules that the Management Pack uses to monitor availability and health of the Active Roles Administration Service:
- General response
- Replication monitoring
- Monitoring of connection to configuration database
- Monitoring of Dynamic Group-related operations
- Monitoring of Group Family-related operations
- Internal error
- Critical error on startup
- License system failure
Monitoring of general response and replication is performed by using custom, script-based processing rules. Those rules run on a scheduled basis, analyzing information returned by the scripts and raising an appropriate event if an error situation is detected. The schedule is stored as part of rule configuration data, and can be adjusted by managing rule properties in the Operations Manager console.
General response - Script
This rule uses a script to check the responsiveness of the Administration Service by periodically issuing a simple request to the Service. By default, this rule is scheduled to run every 10 minutes. The schedule can be adjusted by managing rule properties in the Operations Manager console.
General response - Alert
This rule generates an alert when the General response script detects that the Administration Service is unavailable.
Possible causes of the alert include:
- Administration Service is not running
- Administration Service is not configured properly
- Administration Service has encountered a critical error
- Administration database is unavailable