Answered SCOM 2012: Exchange 2010 & "Correlation Engine"

  • Wednesday, May 16, 2012 6:36 AM
     
     

    Hi

    We have two SCOM MS (not cluster, because with SCOM 2012 it not necessary)....

    What happend with the "high availavility" of Exchange 2010 Correlation Engine Service??

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  • Friday, May 18, 2012 5:34 AM
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    Hi,

    Based on my knowledge, most SCOM 2007R2 MPs could work  in SCOM 2012.

    You could  make Correlation Service run as local system on the RMS Emulator in SCOM 2012:

    Exchange 2010 Management Pack for SCOM 2012

    http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/operationsmanagermgmtpacks/thread/12802a01-5258-40df-9da4-9690fff53b18


    Alex Zhao

    TechNet Community Support

  • Friday, May 18, 2012 6:14 AM
     
     
    I have 2 SCOM Management Servers. One is the RMS emulator. If I install "Correlation Engine Service" on RMS and this server breaks.... I lost the "Correlation Engine Service"....
  • Friday, May 18, 2012 2:57 PM
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    Correct. there are a few mp's that reference the RMS and that is one of them. They are working on an update to the MP is what I have heard. SO te correlation engine is still in a single instance mode unfortunately. SO the MP still works as it did in OM2007, but it does not take advantage of the resource pool possibilities yet. Nothing to do about that piece yet, they need to fix that.

    Bob Cornelissen - BICTT (My Blog about SCOM) - MVP 2012 and Microsoft Community Contributor 2011 Recipient

  • Friday, May 18, 2012 4:33 PM
     
     

    Could I install the service on both MS and disable the service on the NOT emulator RMS role??

    In the case of RMS failure, switch RMS emulator role and start the service??

  • Friday, May 18, 2012 5:01 PM
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    I think that can be done. Have not tried it and give no guarantees. But I think it is an idea. On the other hand you can also have the installation and install steps at hand for the disaster recorvery scenario (together with the move rms emulator command).

    Bob Cornelissen - BICTT (My Blog about SCOM) - MVP 2012 and Microsoft Community Contributor 2011 Recipient

  • Saturday, May 19, 2012 4:30 PM
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    Hi Carlosdlra:

    Bob has pointed you in the right direction and you are correct in your plan. There is no official best practice guidance yet, however it is believed that by installing the correlation service --disabled--on one or more members of the management server pool in addition to the RMSE, you could resume Exchange 2010 monitoring after loss of the RMSE--by transferring RMSE to another MS with the correlation engine installed, and enable and start correlation engine on the new RMSE.


    John Joyner MVP-SC-CDM