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Limitation in SCOM Web console

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Looks like there's an extra character someplace in the config file that it doesn't like.
Can you replace any usernames / passwords and email me the web.config?
michpear at microsoft dot com
Michael Pearson
OpsMgr Performance Test Team
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. Use of attachments are subject to the terms specified at http://www.microsoft.com/info/cpyright.htm- Marked as answer by Pete Zerger - MVPMVP, Moderator Monday, October 12, 2009 5:08 PM
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Hi,
the WebConsole is purely for Monitoring. Modifying SCOM/OpsMgr like adding MPs, overriding rules/monitors, building monitors/rules and so on, authoring and administration is done with the SCOM Console (UI). In OpsMgr RTM/SP1 the Web Console has one big limitation: no Health Explorer is available. In OpsMgr R2 this has been solved and is the Health Explorer available in the Web Console.
So for purely monitoring purposes the Web Console is good enough. For real administration of SCOM/OpsMgr the SCOM Console (UI) is needed.
Hope this helps.
Best regards, Marnix Wolf (http://thoughtsonopsmgr.blogspot.com/) -
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Some tasks are supported by the Web Console. Specifically, Console Tasks are not available in the Web Console since there's not a "console" to run them in. In general, most tasks are not available from the Web Console.
Another limitation of the Web Console is the amount of data it shows. For most things, we are limited to 200 rows by default. So, if you have 1000 Alerts in the Operations Console, you'll only see 200 of them in the Web Console. The number of rows is configurable at the server level, and is applied to all users and all views.
Michael Pearson
OpsMgr Performance Test Team
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Hi Daniel
Normally these aren't displayed but with a small adjustment they will be shown. I blogged about it: http://thoughtsonopsmgr.blogspot.com/2009/02/scom-webconsole-doesnt-show.html
Best regards, Marnix Wolf -
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After i changed the file, i have this errorRuntime Error
Description: An application error occurred on the server. The current custom error settings for this application prevent the details of the application error from being viewed remotely (for security reasons). It could, however, be viewed by browsers running on the local server machine.
Details: To enable the details of this specific error message to be viewable on remote machines, please create a <customErrors> tag within a "web.config" configuration file located in the root directory of the current web application. This <customErrors> tag should then have its "mode" attribute set to "Off".
<!-- Web.Config Configuration File --> <configuration> <system.web> <customErrors mode="Off"/> </system.web> </configuration>
Notes: The current error page you are seeing can be replaced by a custom error page by modifying the "defaultRedirect" attribute of the application's <customErrors> configuration tag to point to a custom error page URL.
<!-- Web.Config Configuration File --> <configuration> <system.web> <customErrors mode="RemoteOnly" defaultRedirect="mycustompage.htm"/> </system.web> </configuration>
The web.config file looks like this:
<appSettings>
<add key="ChartHttpHandler" value="Storage=memory;Timeout=180;Url=~/temp/;" />
<!-- Specify the name or IP of the Operations Manager 2007 R2 Server to connect to -->
<!-- This is internal connection between the web server and the MOM server. -->
<add key="MOMServer" value="<serverfqdn>" />
<!-- Application config parameters related to error logging -->
<add key="AlertSeverity" value="2" />
<add key="AuditEventLogSource" value="Web Console" />
<add key="AuditEventId" value="10" />
</appSettings>
Whats wrong?
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Daniel_13,
Can you check the event log on the Web Server, or try to open the Web Console on the Web Server itself? You should get a more detailed error message. I don't see anything wrong with the Web.config block you posted.
Michael Pearson
OpsMgr Performance Test Team
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From the application eventlog
Event code: 3008
Event message: A configuration error has occurred.
Event time: 25.08.2009 10:03:26
Event time (UTC): 25.08.2009 08:03:26
Event ID: 168c5fac853343f694afbb2fd23b5fdc
Event sequence: 1
Event occurrence: 1
Event detail code: 0
Application information:
Application domain: /LM/W3SVC/2/ROOT-5-128956610061542662
Trust level: Full
Application Virtual Path: /
Application Path: C:\Program Files\System Center Operations Manager 2007\Web Console\
Machine name: <servername>
Process information:
Process ID: 1936Process name: w3wp.exe
Account name: NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE
Exception information:
Exception type: ConfigurationErrorsException
Exception message: '.', hexadecimal value 0x00, is an invalid character. Line 93, position 20. (C:\Program Files\System Center Operations Manager 2007\Web Console\web.config line 93)
Request information:
Request URL: https://<url>:443/default.aspx
Request path: /default.aspx
User host address: xxx.xx.xx.xx
User:
Is authenticated: False
Authentication Type:
Thread account name: NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE
Thread information:
Thread ID: 1
Thread account name: NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE
Is impersonating: False
Stack trace: at System.Web.HttpRuntime.HostingInit(HostingEnvironmentFlags hostingFlags)
Custom event details:
For more information, see Help and Support Center at
Line 93 is:
<authentication mode="Windows" />
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Looks like there's an extra character someplace in the config file that it doesn't like.
Can you replace any usernames / passwords and email me the web.config?
michpear at microsoft dot com
Michael Pearson
OpsMgr Performance Test Team
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. Use of attachments are subject to the terms specified at http://www.microsoft.com/info/cpyright.htm- Marked as answer by Pete Zerger - MVPMVP, Moderator Monday, October 12, 2009 5:08 PM
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Hi.
This evening I will try it out in one of my testenvironments, W2K08 x64 based. I'll let you know what my experiences are.
Best regards, Marnix Wolf- Proposed as answer by Marnix WolfMVP, Moderator Tuesday, November 17, 2009 6:50 PM
- Unproposed as answer by Marnix WolfMVP, Moderator Tuesday, November 17, 2009 6:50 PM
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Hi,
I have tried it in one of mine testenvironments, based on Windows Server 2008 SP2 x64. And it works. However, I noticed there were some issues with the posting, so I corrected it. To be found here: http://thoughtsonopsmgr.blogspot.com/2009/02/scom-webconsole-doesnt-show.html
Best regards, Marnix Wolf- Proposed as answer by Marnix WolfMVP, Moderator Tuesday, November 17, 2009 6:50 PM
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I had this problem on a machine, and the root cause was a package missing. Download it from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=cc96c246-61e5-4d9e-bb5f-416d75a1b9ef&displaylang=en
Anders Bengtsson | Microsoft MVP - Operations Manager | http://www.contoso.se -
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Some of my customers use the MOM web console to view collected events from their groups of application servers. The SCOM Web consoles does not seem to support Event viewing. I will have to setup rules to make those informational alerts and then make the web.config mods mentioned in this thread.
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In Console in a performance view I see performance actions menu with amongst other things select time range.
This is absent in the operators web console.
I'm attempting to delegate operator functions to lesser prived operators. Absense of this control makes the performance monitoring largely useless.
/Robin
Robin