Filed Under (Windows Networking) by Just An Admin on 30-01-2009
When contacting your hardware vendor to report a problem or order additional hardware, like disks or memory, you are often asked to provide the Service Tag. Off course you have the service tags well documented in your CMDB repository. In case your CMDB is not so up to date or lacking any content at all, this little script will grab the tag from any system name or IP you enter, as long as your an admin or allowed to run WMI queries against the system.
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After applying Data Protection Manager Service Pack 1 on a server running Windows Server 2003 x64, a replica may be listed as inconsistent with error ID 112 (0×8007007B).
In the DPM Administrator Console, a critical alert may be listed as in the following example:
Affected area: C:
Occurred since: 1/07/2008 4:13:00 PM
Description: The replica of Volume C:\ on servername.domainname.com is inconsistent with the protected data source. Read the rest of this entry »
Microsoft TechNet posted a library topic on additional known issues for Data Protection Manager 2007 SP1. This topic lists the known issues and possible resolutions for System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) 2007 SP1 TAP Release:
DPM agent stops working
SharePoint index backups fail during profile import
Silent installation does not show restart message
DPM Administrator Console stops working when updating protection agents
DPM Management Shell stops working
Replica or Shadow Copy Volume Resizing in Windows Server 2008
Unable to uninstall DPM 2007
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Since i have been posting fixes for some small problems in Data Protection Manager 2007, i thought i would post some general info/links as well, that could aid in troubleshooting DPM 2007 problems.
DPM 2007 Troubleshooting Guide: Technet reference to common DPM 2007 problems
Microsoft DPM 2007 Error Code Catalog: Technet reference with all the ID XXX error codes for DPM 2007
Ctrl P – The Data Protection Manager Blog: No further introduction needed
Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager TechCenter: Here you will find all resources for DPM 2007, regarding Support, Learning, Download, …
These sources provide a good starting point in troubleshooting any DPM 2007 problems or just to keep up with the latest developments.
Replica is inconsistent
This must be one of the most common errors in Data Protection Manager 2007, since i have seen this almost every day in my Administrator Console.
After the upgrade to Service Pack 1 for Data Protection Manager 2007 and fixing a minor ‘error ID 207′ problem, some of my protected server reported this error. No consistenty check of recreated recovery point could fix it. Within a second after selecting eihter tasks, this error reappeared.
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