I wanted to test how to failover the RMS Emulator role in SCOM2012 to another Management Server and how to move the agents to another Management server when the server hosting the RMS Emulator role fails.
This post describe the test performed in a lab environment along with some screen shots.
Lets
start with 2 Management servers OM1 and OM2. OM1 was the first installed
Management Server and by default gets the RMS Emulator role as can be seen
below:
The following agents are connected to OM1
To
test the failover, shut down OM1 management server. If AD integration is setup then all agents will failover to OM2 which is the next available Management Server. If AD integration is not setup the agents will have to be either manually or via powershell command be migrated to another management server. However the RMSE role will not automatically fail over to another Management Server.
Adding the RMS Emulator Role to another Management Server
1.
Open Operations Manager Shell on another Management Server which needs to RMS Emulator role added and run the following commands:
- $MS = get-SCOMManagementServer -Name <FQDN of Management Server>
- set-SCOMRMSEmulator $MS
Now if you check the Management Servers in the console, OM2 which has been made the RMSE will show RMS Emulator as Yes
Considering AD integration is not set up, the agents which were connected to OM1 will have to be migrated to OM2.
Right click on an agent and select Change Primary Management
Server
Select OM2 from the list and click OK.
This can however become tedious if you have 1000’s of agents
to move.
Below commands will move all agents at once
$MS1 =
Get-SCOMManagementServer | ? {$_.name –eq “<FQDN of primary MS”>}
$agents =
Get-SCOMAgent –ManagementServer $MS1
$MS2 =
Get-SCOMManagementServer | ? {$_.name –eq “<FQDN of failover MS”>}
If you want
to move individual agents
Set-SCOMParentManagementServer
–agent(Get-SCOMAgent –name “<FQDN of Agent>”>) –FailoverServer:$MS2
–PassThru
OR
To move all
agents in the array $agents
Set-SCOMParentManagementServer
–agent($agents) –FailoverServer:$MS2 -PassThru
If AD integration has been setup then Auto agent assignment can be setup as follows:
- In the console go to Administration – Managed servers and right click on the server where you want to setup failover and go to properties.
- Click Add
- On the introduction page click Next
- On the domain page select the domain
- On the inclusion page, click criteria and next.
Click ok
- Click next on the exclusion page.
- On the agent failover page you can select
automatic or manual failover and exclude any management servers if needed
Event Viewer:
In the event viewer under Applications and
Services Logs look under Operations Manager:
Event 21006 - shows there is a problem with
connecting to Primary Management Server
Event 21015 - OpsMgr was
unable to set up a communications channel to the agent primary management
server.
Event 21017 - shows that OpsMgr has successfully failed over to the secondary
management server
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