Error ID 33333: Data Access Layer rejected retry on SqlError

Got hit with this problem when I came in to look into the Operations console and suddenly no monitoring data collected ! Performance Data went blank ! Reports blank !

Push the Panic Button >-> Not Yet :)

As usual, the good old trusted Event Viewer will surely gives you something to look into if you bumped into problems with OpsMgr. Fair enough, I got hit by a series of the following error

Apparently it's my bad after all. I forgot to turn on agent proxying for this servers since they are DC's & Exchange Servers.

Thanks to an entry from the product team, it helped me solved my problem.

http://blogs.technet.com/smsandmom/archive/2008/03/13/opsmgr-2007-dataaccesslayer-event-id-33333-with-should-not-generate-data-about-this-managed-object.aspx

Basically, we need to turn on agent proxying for each of the DCs & Exchange Servers. To be safe, restart the Health Service ( aka System Center Management) on the agents. So far, my Event Viewer looks good and fingers crossed, hope that my monitoring data flows in as well ... gulp

(Oh yea, just checked a minute ago, they came in ... hurray ! I just love OpsMgr)

Service Manager 2010 Beta2 is available

With great excitement, I wish to share with you folks out there that Service Manager 2010 Beta 2 is available for download.

So what will I be excited about with this version compared to the previous Beta1 and also the CTP2 version that I have been playing with.

• Self Service Portal
• Problem Management
• Self Service Software Provisioning

Additional information is available in the product team's blog site:
http://blogs.technet.com/servicemanager/archive/2009/10/02/service-manager-beta-2-has-shipped.aspx

Within this site, you can get the link that will direct you to Microsoft Connect site which lets you to download this exciting product for your evaluation.

Now enjoy ... I know I will enjoy my time with this product as I have been for the previous versions.

DPM 2010 Beta is available

It has been announced that System Center Data Protection Manager 2010 (DPM 2010) Beta is available for download.

Overview of this exciting product is available in the product site
http://www.microsoft.com/systemcenter/dataprotectionmanager/en/us/2010beta-overview.aspx

Within this link, you can also download and try it out at:
http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9686964

My immediate interest is to see how DPM2010 provides backup/restore of Hyper-V R2 virtual machines that runs on Clustered Shared Volumes (CSV) ...

Managing Applications with Service Maps in Service Manager 2010

This TechNet webcast demonstrate how Service Manager 2010 can integrate with Operations Manager 2007 R2 to import Service Maps such as your Messaging Application, Directory Services, Web Portal application and more ... into Service Manager and lets you extend information like Service Owner, Users who uses the service/application, incidents & change requests for the service and more.

This lets you as the IT Service Manager to be able to view the CI relationship of the infrastructure that supports the service and at the same time lets you assess the business impact shall the IT service fails and also helps you perform activities like root cause analysis and more ... in summary, Service Maps lets you have a visualization on your IT Services and able to quickly assess the business impact of the service so that you will be able to perform quick remediation activities to bring back the service up ASAP.

Enough talk ... enjoy ....

http://edge.technet.com/Media/Managing-Applications-with-Service-Maps-in-System-Center-Service-Manager-2010/

SPEAK YOUR MIND & BE HEARD BY THE PRODUCT TEAM

If you want to have your thoughts on OpsMgr to be heard by the product team directly, now you can do it.

The team has just launched a connect portal that let's you feedback (good or bad) to the team and have them heard ... a luxury that only TAP partners used to have ... but now have been extended to general public.

You can access the portal via the following link:
https://connect.microsoft.com/opsmgr

Also the announcement of the New Connect Site portal can be seen here