Lync Synthetic Transaction from Watcher Node

Hello All,
I have a Lync 2013 Environment using Orchestrator I'm performing some activity on Lync servers and folowed by I will be executing the Synthetic transactions from Orchestrator.
I have created a watcher Node(Just Installed the Lync Core Files and Admin tools), not using SCOM here. I just use to execute the Test-cspresence, Test-CSIM, etc.. from the watcherNode and use targetFQDN as
Front end servers. But it's not working now with an below Error, rest of the commands like get-user and all working fine.
Can someone help me to fix this issue?
Error: “Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation”

Please check you have enabled Windows Powershell for remoting.
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http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/ff700227.aspx
Lisa Zheng
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Hi All,
Below is the scenario ,that we are encountering.
We have Client which is RAC modelled having Node1 and node2 and the server having primary and secondary nodes.
From Client we are getting multiple transactions at a rate of nano-milliseconds to the server.
Our code setup:
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If record exists, we are going for update or else we are inserting.
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Scenario 1:
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Scenario 1 - you will probably have to perform some sort of locking to prevent this issue. However, doing so will hurt scalability.
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I've set up SCOM monitoring for our Lync 2013 deployment.
Everything is looks like perfect, in the SCOM console I can see the watcher node and it looks like the monitoring is functional (marked with green as "monitored"), but in the Event Viewer of the Watcher Node server I cannot find the events 334
or 335, but as far as I know, there should be notofications in every 15 minutes, that the tests was runing and was succesfull or not.
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I have a strange issue with lync 2013 watcher node.
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Description:
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I opened a support case last week on this, once I have resolution, I'll post it here and on my own thread of the same issue.
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/lync/en-US/92b8b0d0-c333-4b15-ab8a-6da6b4120432/lync-2013-synthetic-transaction-watcher-node-discovery-failure

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We'd like to reduce the noise from our web monitoring by having alerts fire only when a majority, or some other defined ratio, of watcher nodes are in an error condition. Is this possible, and if so, how?
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First, disable the alerts from the web application that you have created.
Next, create a new distributed application. Use the 'Blank (Advanced)' template. When it comes to choosing the management pack, set it to be the same as the one used for the web monitor.
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Give it a name - Something like 'Appname web monitor component group'
Choose the 'objects of the following type(s)' radio button. Navigate the tree:
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Synthetic transactions are failing

synthetic transactions are failing with below error message
lync 2013 server
A 504 (Server time-out) response was received from the network and the operation failed
from wather node running same cmd it is working and also from the local server also working.
ksrugi

Please make sure Agent Proxy is enabled for watch node.
Add the Lync Watcher Node Computer to the RTCUniversalReadOnlyAdmins.
Check the Windows Firewall on Lync Server Front End Servers is configured to allowing incoming connectivity from Windows PowerShell application and from Microsoft SCOM process.
For details, check
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2751720/en-us.
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Wondering if anyone can help with this. Ive setup Lync with a SQL 2008 Db, SCOM and a synthetic transaction node. All seems to be working apart from the ST's. I see the following in the operation manager application event log...
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   at System.Data.ProviderBase.DbConnectionFactory.GetConnection(DbConnection owningConnection)
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   at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlConnection.Open()
   at Microsoft.Rtc.Common.Data.DBCore.PerformSprocContextExecution(SprocContext sprocContext)].
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From Help File...
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sqlserver1
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Well. They say time is a healer. And this seemed to be the case. With no changes whatsoever, just a few service restarts, everything fired into life. To anyone else experiencing this error. Ensure your synthetic transaction
watcher node is a member of the RTCUniversalReadOnlyAdmins group, that and that the node has been restarted. Then try fully restarting SCOM and the synth node. Hope this helps someone else.
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Any advice much appreciated...

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Hi,
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