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flipa_29928
Mar 22, 2011Nimbostratus
Hi Julian,
Thank you for clarifying the role of the IPC connection in all this.
Alas, when I managed to run the Show Running Rules and Monitors task it was with the F5MonitoringService stopped and I did not keep a copy of the output as I figured it was not going to show anything of use.
But after starting the F5MonitoringService and having the various Healthservice not healthy events that turned the Management Server and all its workflows grey I find that once again running the task fails with the same cryptic error code.
So, I think I may need to need to stop the System Center Management service to kill off any Healthservice process and manually kill off any remaining MonitoringHost process in Task Manager, then start the System Center Management Service, wait half an hour or so for all workloads to initialize and the server to return to its usual CPU/memory activity, then try running the task again just to verify if it was the Healthservice alone that is having the issue.
If the task runs successfully, I will then start the F5MonitoringService and try running the task again though based on observered behaviour so far I expect that within a few minutes of the F5MonitoringService being started I will start seeing "Rules Unloaded" type events and then the memory usage will drop signalling workflows are not running and eventually the Healthservice will turn grey.
But I will try it and let you know.
Regarding the second aspect of your reply, the distributed configuration you described is what we have. I installed the F5 Management Pack on the RMS first as per the guide instaructions, then on the secondary Management Server which is also tasked with the SNMP and web application monitoring workflows. I am glad to hear that it is not a required configuration to have the F5 workflows hosted on a dedicated management Server, though I suspect we may end-up going that route as I think the additional load on the Management Server's physical memory (once we actually get the Management Pack working and enable performance collections) may well take the server close to its limit.
Regards,
Michael