System Center 2012 Operations Manager: Recommended Agent OS Fixes and Updates

This article discusses fixes and updates recommended for Microsoft System Center 2012 Operations Manager (OpsMgr) Agent computers.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2843219/en-us

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My Experience Handling Event ID: 31551 and 31552 issue

I have observed new flavors of Event ID 31551 and 31552 in our environment.

Event Type:      Error

Event Source:   Health Service Modules

Event Category:            Data Warehouse

Event ID:          31551

Date:                9/13/2013

Time:                11:06:52 AM

User:                N/A

Computer:         IND-MS1

Description:

Failed to store data in the Data Warehouse. The operation will be retried.

Exception 'InvalidOperationException': This implementation is not part of the Windows Platform FIPS validated cryptographic algorithms.

One or more workflows were affected by this. 

Workflow name: Microsoft.SystemCenter.DataWarehouse.CollectEventData

Instance name: IND-MS1

Instance ID: {98AA3CF1-B05A-0B45-1417-3D532A1D5D79}

Management group: MG_LAB

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

Event Type:      Error

Event Source:   Health Service Modules

Event Category:            Data Warehouse

Event ID:          31552

Date:                9/18/2013

Time:                9:46:00 AM

User:                N/A

Computer:         IND-MS1

Description:

Failed to store data in the Data Warehouse.

Exception 'InvalidOperationException': This implementation is not part of the Windows Platform FIPS validated cryptographic algorithms.

One or more workflows were affected by this. 

Workflow name: Microsoft.SystemCenter.DataWarehouse.CollectEventData

Instance name: IND-MS1

Instance ID: {98AA3CF1-B05A-0B45-1417-3D532A1D5D79}

Management group: MG_LAB

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

To fix this issue please edit the below registry entry to 0

HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\LSA\FipsAlgorithm 0

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