Microsoft Monitoring Agent service ‘pausing’?

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Doug and Reggie from Beverly Hills, CA. were running into an interesting issue with their Windows Server System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) 2012 R2.

 

Randomly, the Microsoft Monitoring Agent service would go into a “Paused” state.

 

According to Tim H. (Operations Managers Escalation Engineer) Its supposed to go into a paused state if you have the SCCM feature to "enable maintenance mode" during updates is checked.

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