Possible Way Of: Helping you to get the System Center 2012 Configuration Manager (SCCM2012) Management Pack 5.0.7705.0 to work

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If using the Management Pack in subject you may be experiencing issues with the discoveries related to the Central Administration Site (CAS) and Primary Sites.

 
 

You may think that those Discoveries don't work?

That's not in fact true…

 
 

Whilst the "typo" on the Management Pack Guide and other resources doesn't get sorted a Possible Way Of helping you to get it to work is telling you:

 
 

Where to enable Agent Proxy?

  • Central Administration Site (CAS)
  • Primary Sites

 
 

If not enabling Agent Proxy for the Health Service on the machines with those Site Roles you will also see 33333 events on the related Management Server as well.

 
 

Also:

 
 

You might need to override Microsoft.SystemCenter2012.ConfigurationManager.SiteSystemRolesDiscovery (Which targets Site System Information class hosted by the CAS to avoid it to timeout.

Default setting is: 300 seconds. Carefully override it in multiples of 30 seconds until it works.

 
 

 
 

Resuming: In the current MP Guide the highlighted text below should not be read.

Agent Proxy

For the Configuration Manager monitoring pack to discover objects, you must turn on Agent Proxy on every site server except for the primary site and the central administration site.

 
 

 
 

This was one Possible Way Of getting it to work and Hope This Helps somehow!

 
 

Note: You should be able to find a copy of this blog post here as well.