{"id":1380,"date":"2010-03-30T06:52:37","date_gmt":"2010-03-30T04:52:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/contoso.se\/blog\/?p=1380"},"modified":"2010-03-12T21:13:41","modified_gmt":"2010-03-12T19:13:41","slug":"cross-platform-failover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/contoso.se\/blog\/?p=1380","title":{"rendered":"Cross-platform failover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">With default settings cross-platform agents in Operations Manager 2007 R2 don&#8217;t fail-over to another management server if the primary management server goes offline. If the primary management server goes offline you will loose monitoring of all cross-platform machines communicating through that management server. The System Center Cross platform and Interop team blog has a <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/scxplat\/archive\/2009\/12\/11\/cross-platform-powershell-scripts-released.aspx\">couple of scripts<\/a> that can help you manage cross-platform machines. One of these scripts is used to to change the current management server monitoring a UNIX\/Linux server (or group of UNIX\/Linux servers) to a new management server.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">But if you move a cross-platform over to another management server you will get an alert like this<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/contoso.se\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/xplatfailover01.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1381  aligncenter\" title=\"xplatfailover01\" src=\"http:\/\/contoso.se\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/xplatfailover01-300x98.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"98\" srcset=\"https:\/\/contoso.se\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/xplatfailover01-300x98.jpg 300w, https:\/\/contoso.se\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/xplatfailover01.jpg 343w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A\u00c2\u00a0simple explanation to this is that the new management server don&#8217;t\u00c2\u00a0trust the CA which have issue the certificate that the cross-platform machine is communicating with. You can solve this by copy the certificate from the management server that first discover the cross-platform machine over to the second management server. Store the certificate under Local Computer\/Trusted Root Certification Authorities (in the certificates MMC). The certificate is named SCX-Certificate, issued by the primary management server.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/contoso.se\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/xplatfailover021.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1385  aligncenter\" title=\"xplatfailover02\" src=\"http:\/\/contoso.se\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/xplatfailover021-241x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"241\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/contoso.se\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/xplatfailover021-241x300.jpg 241w, https:\/\/contoso.se\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/xplatfailover021.jpg 402w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 241px) 100vw, 241px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">When the new management server has the certificate installed it will start communicate with the cross platform machine. You could build a timed script two state monitor to check if the first management server is working, else run the script to move all cross-platform agents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With default settings cross-platform agents in Operations Manager 2007 R2 don&#8217;t fail-over to another management server if the primary management server goes offline. If the primary management server goes offline you will loose monitoring of all cross-platform machines communicating through that management server. 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