SQL 2008 MP on MOM 2005 does not discover SQL 2008 64-bit installa

[Mohini Rahalkar]

Hi,
I have installed SQL 2008 on a 64-bit machine, but the MOM 2005 agent is
32-bit.
So, it is not able to access the registry key to discover SQL 2008
installation.

Is there any way in which the problem can be addressed?

Thanks in advance!

[Anders Bengtsson [MVP]]

Hi Mohini,

There is no 64 agent for MOM 2005, but I think you can install the X32 version
of the agent. But I know there was some performance counters issues with
2003 X64, but the X32 agent was working except that.

--
Anders Bengtsson
Microsoft MVP - Operations Manager
Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT)
http://www.contoso.se

[Mohini Rahalkar]

Hi Anders,

I have also installed the 32-bit MOM agent.
The problem is the SQL 2008 installation is not being detected by the MOM
server.
That may be because the 32-bit MOM agent does not have access to the
registry key to determine if SQL is installed on that machine (as I have
installed 64-bit SQL).

So, I manually created the registry key and then everything worked fine.
Is there any better way of solving this problem?

Thanks!

- Mohini

[Anders Bengtsson [MVP]]

Hi Mohini,

I think you found a working solution. In ops Mgr there can be a couple of
issues when mixing X64 and X32, the best solution for that is to try to plan
and design not to mix X64 and X32.

--
Anders Bengtsson
Microsoft MVP - Operations Manager
Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT)
http://www.contoso.se

> Hi Anders,