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What if you receive an HP SIM Alert 'SNMPAgentNotResponding'? Just need to check whether the server is giving the ping response or not. Login to the server and check whether during this time, server got rebooted or some issue related to network card / cable etc. This error will come when Monitoring Tool try to ping the server, during that time, if server is not responded, then this alert will raise. More info about the same case - Scenario : The SNMP agent is not responding. For example, the community string for this SNMP agenthas been changed, or NNMi’s communication configuration settings have not yet been updated, butthe node is operational (IP addresses can be pinged). NOTE : Ping is not enabled out-of-the box. This scenario requires that at least one address is polled. Root Cause : The SNMP Agent is not responding. Incident : None generated. Status : The SNMP Agent is in Critical status. Conclusion : SNMPAgentNotResponding Effect : The node status is

Windows Server 2008 Command Lines for Administrative Consoles I’m always of fan of shortcuts and the Windows Server 2008 Administrator's Companion from Microsoft Press has a complete list of the command line shortcuts for starting Administrative Consoles for Server 2008.  There are plenty of other goodies in this book so make sure you take a look at getting this one.  Command Line Console Name AdRmsAdmin.msc    Active Directory Rights Management Services Adsiedit.msc    ADSI Edit Azman.msc Authorization Manager Certmgr.msc Certmgr (Certificates) Certtmpl.msc Certificates Template Console CluAdmin.msc Failover Cluster Management Comexp.msc Component Services Compmgmt.msc Computer Management Devmgmt.msc Device Manager Dfsmgmt.msc DFS M

The action 'Manage a Cluster...' did not complete. Could not open a connection to the cluster 'server name'. An error occurred opening cluster 'server name'. The RPC server is unavailable. Today I've tried to login one of my client's windows 2008 cluster server, on node 1 - I know that is a cluster server, however when I open Failover Cluster Management, I couldn't find any thing there in the tree. I was little shocked and tried to logon to Node 2 to check what is the issue. In Node 2 it is OK, I could see all the information - This is something strange that I've faced with windows 2008 server OS. And started the troubleshooting like step by step - 1.Cluster Service Check 2.RPC Service 3.Dependencies etc All looks good to me on both nodes. Now what is the next step? I suspect could be some issue with my login id, hence I've asked one of my co worker to login with his credentials. Again shocked by seeing the result, it is showing

AD Domains and Trusts domain.msc Active Directory Management admgmt.msc AD Sites and Serrvices dssite.msc AD Users and COmputers dsa.msc ADSI Edit adsiedit.msc Authorization manager azman.msc Certification Authority Management certsrv.msc Certificate Templates certtmpl.msc Cluster Administrator cluadmin.exe Computer Management compmgmt.msc Component Services comexp.msc Configure Your Server cys.exe Device Manager devmgmt.msc DHCP Managment dhcpmgmt.msc Disk Defragmenter dfrg.msc Disk Manager diskmgmt.msc Distributed File System dfsgui.msc DNS Managment dnsmgmt.msc Event Viewer eventvwr.msc Indexing Service Management ciadv.msc IP Address Manage ipaddrmgmt.msc Licensing Manager llsmgr.exe Local Certificates Management certmgr.msc Local Group Policy Editor gpedit.msc Local Security Settings Manager secpol.msc Local Users and Groups Manager lusrmgr.msc Network Load balancing nlbmgr.exe Performance Montior pe