Tivoli Monitoring, WMI and Server Buffers Full

If you run Tivoli Monitoring 6.2 to monitor Windows Server systems and use other applications to query WMI, e.g. PowerShell and Get-WmiObject, then you may receive the error ‘Server buffers are full and data cannot be accepted’.

Restarting the WMI service will temporaily clear it, but the issue is liable to come back again. This can occur because of a file handle leak in the ITM Windows OS agent when collecting “Processor Information” attribute group.

There is a fix for this issue available from the below website.

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=2292&context=SSRM2J&dc=DB550&uid=swg1IZ51505&loc=en_US&cs=UTF-8&lang=en&rss=ct2292tivoli

Exchange 2003 / WMI / PowerShell article over at http://www.simple-talk.com/

So I got asked to write an article for the http://www.simple-talk.com/ website, a well known online technical journal and community hub around SQL and .NET technologies. They’ve recently been branching out into Exchange as well hence they reason they were looking for some Exchange based articles.

The article I have written for them is based around a presentation I have made around some user groups a few times now, i.e. using PowerShell and WMI to manage Exchange 2003. I really enjoyed the process of transferring the content into a written article and hopefully I may get the opportunity to write some more so please check it out.

You can also take advantage of a free Sybex Best Of Exchange 2007 Server ebook by signing up for their Exchange newsletter.

Slides from MMMUG presentation

As promised to those who attended the MMMUG on Wednesday night my slides from that evening are available on my SkyDrive.

Enjoy.