SCDPM Online

Further to my previous post on the DPM 2010 management pack, http://www.scdpmonline.org/dpm-2010-management-pack.aspx, I have noticed another configuration issue that I would urge you to override.

Within the DPM2010 MP is a discovery rule that discovers DPM data after the DPM server itself has been discovered.  This discovery rule runs a VBS script to collect the data and by default it has a timeout value of 3 hours!!!!  This is way too long!!!!

Most of the time the discovery script runs very quickly and if it doesn't, there is a problem on the DPM server.  I would recommend overriding the timeout value to something more sensible like 5 minutes; if the script doesn't run in 5 minutes there is a problem that needs fixing and leaving the script running for up to 3 hours is not going to help.

Thanks for reading.

David Allen MVP System Center Operations Manager http://www.scdpmonline.org http://wmug.co.uk/blogs/aquilaweb