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Troubleshooting System Center Configuration Manager

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2016
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ISBN-13 9781782174844
Length 248 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Gerry Hampson Gerry Hampson
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Peter Egerton Peter Egerton
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. The Configuration Manager Troubleshooting Toolkit FREE CHAPTER 2. Configuration Manager Monitoring Workspace and Log Files 3. Troubleshooting Configuration Manager Clients 4. Troubleshooting Hierarchies and Site Servers 5. Troubleshooting Management Points and Distribution Points 6. Troubleshooting Other Roles 7. Troubleshooting Common Tasks 8. Disaster Recovery 9. Avoiding Trouble Index

Troubleshooting our management point


When troubleshooting the management point, we have several options available to us, which can range from high-level overview to low-level detail. Let us take a look at where and how we can troubleshoot the management point in Configuration Manager.

Console

It is worth a brief mention of where to look in the console at the Monitoring workspace. The path we will need to navigate is Overview | System Status | Site Status.

In here, we will see that the management point is listed as a site system role with a high-level color indicator similar to those we have discussed in previous chapters. From here, we can right-click and show messages, reset error counts, and also start the Configuration Manager Service Manager. As always, this is a great starting point that we can use to dig deeper through the status messages and gradually down into the logs or further.

One other easy method of troubleshooting our management point is to enable the option to generate an alert...

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