SCOM 2019 and Linux RHEL 6

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So are there any work arounds to RHEL 6 support with SCOM 2019? I know for 2008R2 I can load the SCOM 2016 1807 agent and it will work. Is there anything like that I can do to monitor my RHEL 6 until we complete our upgrade of that OS?

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I would be surprised if the agent that supports RHEL 5/6/7 does not talk to SCOM 2019 - have you tried it? MS have not updated the RHEL doc for years

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I have confirmed that it is not officially supported. We have not yet tried to install 2019 we were about to but this is a show stopper and we would have to stick with 2016. What I am hoping is that MS comes out with an option in the next few days due to customer outcry. I have heard that they were getting a lot of push back from the nothing older than 2012 being supported and they may reverse that stance. Hoping same thing happens for RHEL 6 which has a longer support life than 2008R2. They want people to adopt he new platform but this will chase an issue.

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Hi,

Is there anyone who knows is they plan support for redhat 6?

A lot of our servers are rhel6 and our linux team is not planning to update this at this moment.

Kind regards,

Luc

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We had a call with the product team and there are no plans to support RHEL 6

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RHEL 6 does not work with SCOM 2019. We tried and didn’t get it to work (yet). I will let you know when we get it working.

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Any updates on the subject? Having the same issue as Luc van den Berg

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I spoke with the product team and there are no plans to add support for RHEL 6 to SCOM 2019

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Our devs are just about to put in Rhel 6 in one of our core systems. Not good. Looks like I’ll stay on 2016 for a while.

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Thanks Rick. I just double checked and was informed it’s 7.6. Whew.

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We got Rhel 6 working on 2019. have a look at https://www.bictt.com/blogs/monitoring-red-hat-6-with-scom-2019/

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Are you saying the MP is not supported In 2019?
Or the existing Linux agent is not supported by 2019?

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According to the release notes yes. Also no support of windows 2008, 2008r2 or 2012

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RHEL 6 goes end of life next year so you might want to look at RHEL 7. RHEL 8 is out but not yet supported. That is coming early in 2020.

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Great work! Thank you :slight_smile: