A new cmdlet that allows you to export the effective configuration for an agent. I can’t get the example on the SCOM help file to work but have re-written it below. It will create a seperate csv file for each monitored server. Good Luck!
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Just a quick heads up on a couple of items that need to be considered if you will be looking to upgrade OpsMgr 2007 R2 to SCOM 2012 at some future date.
In SCOM 2012, A Management Server can only run one network device discovery rule. So if you already have one network device discovered, when you try and create a new discovery rule you won’t have any Management Servers available.
You’ll either need to:
- edit the original discovery rule to cover both network devices
- add another Management Server
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh278846.aspx
“Each management server or gateway server can run only one discovery rule. You specify a single management server or gateway server to run the discovery rule and a management server resource pool to perform the actual monitoring of the network devices.”
Kevin Holman does a great walk-through here.
Operations Manager 2012 still doesn’t block placing management servers into maintenance mode. However, the way Management Servers behave when placed into maintenance mode has changed:
