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Sitecomponent manager installs SCCM binaries on cluster... - 11/21/2007 8:08:17 AM   
jhanemaaijer

 

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Status: offline 		During the SCCM installation with a remote SQL cluster, SCCM determines the disk where to install the SCCM binaries by choosing the largest disk.
In our case this happened to be a clustered disk.
 
By now i know you can exlude disks from installing by creating an empty file named no_sms_on_drive.sms on the root of all of the cluster disks, but this is a bit too late.
 
My question is how do i force SCCM to reinstall the SCCM binaries on the cluster node disk (C:).
I tried to rename the old folder, but SCCM creates a new folder on the same disk.
I also tried to reset the SCCM site, but with no success.
 
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RE: Sitecomponent manager installs SCCM binaries on clu... - 11/21/2007 9:09:45 AM   
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Status: offline 		I am still looking for the document to support it, but I am pretty sure that you can't set things up that way.  You can setup ConfigMgr on another machine and use the SQL cluster as a remote SQL database, but you can't install ConfigMgr on a cluster itself.  You can also setup a Management Point, and Server Locator Point for use with a cluster as well.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb680717.aspx


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RE: Sitecomponent manager installs SCCM binaries on clu... - 11/21/2007 9:50:22 AM   
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Status: offline 		This is not a SCCM server installation on a SQL cluster, but I mean the ConfigMgr Site system components.
The Site Component Manager installs those component on the configMgr database server.

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RE: Sitecomponent manager installs SCCM binaries on clu... - 11/22/2007 8:58:10 AM   
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Status: offline 		It took me a while but I did resolve it by running the following steps
In short I removed the clusternode temporarily from the cluster and forced a site reset.

In detail:
  1. Moved all the cluster resources to (one of) the other cluster node(s).
  2. Evict the clusternode from the cluster. This was the clusternode with the SCCM components op the cluster drive installed. steps to evict a cluster node: http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver/en/library/f43e533a-e693-4995-a7ee-1d34583125141033.mspx?mfr=true
  3. Make sure that the no_sms_on_drive.sms file was added on every cluster disk.
  4. Restart the SCCM server. (More success for a site reset, otherwise you could encounter a hanging SMS_CLIENT_CONFIG_MANAGER)
  5. Reset the SCCM site with the option to Modify SQL Server configuration. Change nothing. After that I checked the sitecomp log to see the reinstallation of all the SCCM components on all SCCM component servers. Note that this affect the entire site and also the component services on the SCCM server itself, MP server, fall back point server, scup server, report server etc. Some servers require a restart after reinstallation. You will see temporarily warnings and errors in the site status. Make sure to give SCCM some time after a site reset to reinstall the components. Check the sitecomp log for the progress.
  6. After a while the Site Database server and component server comonents were removed from SCCM for the evicted cluster node.
  7. Searched the registry of the evicted cluster node to remove some entries pointing to SMS_<servername>. (I saw two pointers).
  8. Removed the SMS_<servername> files from the cluster disk.
  9. Rejoined the clusternode to the cluster (see http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver/en/library/f43e533a-e693-4995-a7ee-1d34583125141033.mspx?mfr=true).
  10. After a while, when the Site component Manager has run, SCCM reinstalls the SCCM components on the added clusternode and added the clusternode to the site systems. (You can manually trigger the Site component Manager if you don't want to wait).
  11. Checked the SCCM site status to check of all components were running as they should.


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RE: Sitecomponent manager installs SCCM binaries on clu... - 4/15/2008 2:48:52 PM   
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Status: offline 		I have this same problem. Has anyone found any other ways to accomplish this? I was hoping for a config file/registry change somewhere for a quick way to point to another partition. I haven't found anything yet though.

Update: not sure how I missed it, but there is a registry setting on the site server you can change which seems to do the trick: HKLM\Software\Wow6432node\Microsoft\SMS\Components\SMS_SITE_COMPONENT_MANAGER\MultiSite Component Server
Just select the problem system in there and modify the Installation Directory key.




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