Hiello,

Can anyone tell us if more than one SCOM instance or management group can connect to a single Event Consumer.

We have two distincet SCOM instances (management groups) that we wish to connect a single HP OM instance. Is this possible with the SCInterop connector?

We already have one management group sending alerts however we are concerned if we install SCInterop connector opn a second management group that we will loose the configuration of the first management group. The connector will be installed on a seperate server with a seperate SCInterop databse.

I am guessing this is possble however I would like to be sure before try this out.

Any help would be much appreciated.Regards

BTW we are running SCOM 2007 R2 and HP OM Windows version 8.11.

Tony

• Edited by Daicos1990 Friday, August 02, 2013 5:02 AM

Tony,

Yes this is possible. The connector is configured by the SCOM Management Group name. So alerts sent from one management group to HP OM are always synced back to the proper management group from HP OM.

You will need to import the SCOM certificate from each SCOM server to the other SCOM server so they can both talk to the same agent. See details below but you can find this here as well http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc540378.aspx

To copy a certificate from one server to another         

1. Log on to the management server that has the certificate you want to export and import.

2. At the command prompt, change the directory to %ProgramFiles%\System Center Operations Manager 2007. Run this command: scxcertconfig.exe export <filename>.

3. While the file created by scxcertconfig.exe contains
   only the public key of the certificate, you should still treat it as a
   security-sensitive file. The file, and any copies of the file, should be
   explicitly deleted when the certificate is imported into the new
   management server in step 5 in this procedure. Verify that the new
   management server can access the file copy location.

4. Log on to the management server that you want to monitor agents from.

5. At the command prompt, change the directory to %ProgramFiles%\System Center Operations Manager 2007. Run this command: scxcertconfig.exe import <filename>.

Importing the certificate only allows Operations Manager to trust agents signed with that certificate. If multiple management servers will be signing certificates, the certificates must be exported from each management server, and imported into the other management servers.

Regards,

-Steve

Hi Steve,

Thanks for your quck response.

I suspected as much, however I just wanted to be certain.

Happy to mark as answered.

• Edited by Daicos1990 Friday, August 02, 2013 5:04 AM