Hi Team , We installed SCOM 2012 on POC for the demo and trying to install an agent on a cluster nodes . The agent installation fails and the event vwr on the target server show error as "Product: System Center Operations Manager 2012 Agent -- This product must be installed on Windows XP SP3, Windows Server 2003 SP2, Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2, or later. Event Xml: <Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event"> <System> <Provider Name="MsiInstaller" /> <EventID Qualifiers="0">10005</EventID> <Level>2</Level> <Task>0</Task> <Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords> <TimeCreated SystemTime="2012-05-31T15:56:10.000Z" /> <EventRecordID>10229025</EventRecordID> <Channel>Application</Channel> <Computer>nadcwqdbsgpoc1b.GPOADQA.NET</Computer> <Security UserID="S-1-5-18" /> </System> <EventData> <Data>Product: System Center Operations Manager 2012 Agent -- This product must be installed on Windows XP SP3, Windows Server 2003 SP2, Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2, or later.</Data> <Data>(NULL)</Data> <Data>(NULL)</Data> <Data>(NULL)</Data> <Data>(NULL)</Data> <Data> </Data> <Data> </Data> <Binary>7B35313535444346362D413142352D343838322D413637302D3630424639464346443638387D</Binary> </EventData> </Event> " SO is that mean SCOM 2012 unable to monitor the Windows Server 2008 SP2 boxes , I have quite a few server in my domain which are on Windows Server 2008 SP1 Any help how to work around to monitor this boxes Thanks, Santosh

Hi, Supported Configurations for System Center 2012 - Operations Manager http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh205990.aspx#BKMK_RBF_WindowsAgents "Operating Systems: Windows Server 2003 SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, Windows XP Professional x64 Edition SP2, Windows XP Professional SP3, or Windows Vista SP2, or Windows 7. "Please remember to click Mark as Answer on the post that helps you, and to click Unmark as Answer if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.

Hi, Supported Configurations for System Center 2012 - Operations Manager http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh205990.aspx#BKMK_RBF_WindowsAgents "Operating Systems: Windows Server 2003 SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, Windows XP Professional x64 Edition SP2, Windows XP Professional SP3, or Windows Vista SP2, or Windows 7. "Please remember to click Mark as Answer on the post that helps you, and to click Unmark as Answer if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.

Hello Santosh, You are correct. Windows Server 2008 SP1 is not supported for System Center Operations Manager 2012 Agent. You need to upgrade them to SP2 or the latest version. Thanks,Yog Li TechNet Community Support