Ops Mgr “The WINS Connector has stopped working”
Seems that the v6.0.6278.27 DNS management pack for Operations Manager 2007 has its own bug of fame. The “The WINS Connector has stopped working” alert will likely become familiar to you courtesy of the DNS Library WINS TTL Monitor. It seems that the MP ships with the “hostname” field filled in with “Placeholder”…but if you read the relase notes you’ll know this and know to fill it in with the NETBIOS name of something on your network or to create a WINS record for the host named PLACEHOLDER.
Setting the WINS TTL Monitor
The Windows Internet Name Service time to live (WINS TTL) monitor performs an NSLOOKUP query for a test (A) record named “placeholder” to verify that WINS resolution is working properly. You will need to create a test record called “placeholder” or create an override to change the target name.
Setting the Global Zone Resolution Monitor Target
The global zone resolution monitor performs an NSLOOKUP query for a test (A) record named “placeholder” to verify that global zone resolution is working properly. You will need to create a test record called “placeholder” or create an override to change the target name.
However, what really seems to happen is no matter what you do (or at least no matter what I did), you’ll still get the “The WINS Connector has stopped working” alerts. I tried individual overrrides, I tried a type override, I used upper case hostnames, lowercase hostnames, IP addresses, even tried creating a WINS record named PLACEHOLDER. No joy.
My solution: disable the monitor (DNS Library WINS TTL Monitor) until Microsoft updates the management pack. Have you been able to get it working?
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[...] management server (i.e. placeholder.mydomain.local), the alert still comes in. Refer back to my previous post about that item. So…this monitor gets overridden [...]