This is correct. The SCOM agent does not restart itself, UNLESS there is a recovery set on the health service watcher based Heartbeat failed monitor - via override.
If you want to accomplish what the customer is asking - I would simply put the agent into maintenance mode - that is what it is there for. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Christopher Flesher Sent: Friday, July 8, 2016 2:14 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [msmom] RE: Disabling the Microsoft Monitoring Agent You may have a recovery task set up to automatically restart the service so look into what is in your system. Also, if you set it to disabled it still restarts itself? Christopher Flesher IT Services The University of Chicago (773)-834-2878 From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Brian McDonald Sent: Friday, July 8, 2016 1:50 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: [msmom] Disabling the Microsoft Monitoring Agent Hello all, I have a need to disable the SCOM agent while an application team is performing a set of tests. In this instance, it has been determined that when the SCOM agent is running it is causing performance issues. The interim need is to disable the agent. However, we are seeing once we disable the SCOM agent it will automatically start up on it's own automatically. Can someone tell me how to disable the HealthService.exe without completely removing the SCOM agent (which is not what we want to do). Thanks, Brian
