The other day, I’m asked, “what the heck are these SCOM agent proxy alerts!?” I’m sure you fellow SCOM admins have seen these alerts before:

You could go to the computer that SCOM is complaining about and manually enable the agent proxy via Administration > Managed Computers, and modifying its properties, see below:

Or…… you could make your life easier, and do this…

The fix is easy, and the explanation are both below:

To resolve the “Agent proxy not enabled” alert for all machines in your current environment, run the following PowerShell code in the SCOM PowerShell Console:

get-SCOMagent | where {$_.ProxyingEnabled -match "False"} | Enable-SCOMAgentProxy

To prevent this alert in the future, run the following below:

add-pssnapin "Microsoft.EnterpriseManagement.OperationsManager.Client";
new-managementGroupConnection -ConnectionString:yourSCOMserverFQDNhere;
set-location "OperationsManagerMonitoring::";
Set-DefaultSetting -Name HealthService\ProxyingEnabled -Value True

What exactly does the alert mean? Well, Microsoft does a good enough job explaining this, and it can be found here.

Happy SCOM’ing!