This post is a consolidated collection point for notes about MIM, UNIFYBroker and UNIFYNow conventions that should be followed, with explanations why.

UNIFYNow

MIM Run Profile Operation Names

Convention

In UNIFYNow, operations that run MIM profiles should always have the name of the MA and the Run Profile being invoked clearly evident.

Rationale

When MIM run profiles are recreated, or ‘Refresh MA’ is clicked in UNIFYNow (either intentionally or accidentally) the run profile GUIDs on operations can end up being incorrect.  When this happens it may be necessary or expeditious to simply re-select the appropriate MAs and run profiles from the GUI, in which case having the name of the MA and run profile in the operation name will be extremely beneficial.

In Event Broker 4 (an older version of UNIFYNow) there is a known issue where this can happen unexpectedly when a server is rebooted in certain, rare conditions.  The exact trigger for this behaviour is unknown.  It may be related to starting Event Broker on a system where the WMI Service is not running, but this is by no means certain.