[OpsMgr 2007 R2][OpsMgr 2012] Lync Server 2013 Management Pack - version 8308.871 #LyncServer # ManagementPack #OpsMgr

Lync Server 2013 Management Packs contain comprehensive monitoring tools including: • End-to-End scenario availability from various locations. • Call reliability and quality perceived by real users.

• Component health and performance. Active Monitoring Management pack
• Geographically distributable end-to-end scenario validation for Lync Server 2010 and Lync Server 2013 deployments. This includes coverage for internal, remote and branch office users.
• Increased scenario coverage in areas like AV Edge Connectivity and Exchange Unified Message Connectivity.
• Enhanced troubleshooting logs to streamline root cause analysis of failures. Component and User Management pack
• Increased reliability monitoring of real end user calls and conferences.
• Integrated media quality alerts driven from Quality of Experience (QoE) data reported by client applications.
• Full event and performance monitoring for all Lync 2013 roles.

Microsoft link

Supported Operating System :

 Windows Server 2008 R2

• Operating Systems: Windows Server® R2 (64-bit) and Windows Server 2012 (64-bit).
• System Center Operations Manager: System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 and System Center Operations Manager 2012; 64-bit agents only.

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[OpsMgr 2012] Management Pack for BizTalk Server 2013 R2 - version 7.0.2008.0 #ManagementPack #Biztalk # OpsMgr2012

BizTalk Server 2013 R2 Management Pack offers monitoring capabilities for BizTalk artifacts and BizTalk-related platform components. It allows administrators to monitor health state of various BizTalk artifacts such as Send Ports, Orchestrations etc. and platform artifacts such as Host Instances (BizTalk service). Further, this mp includes performance views, diagnostic capability and alerts.

Microsoft link



Release History

19 Feb 2015 - Initial English release, version 7.0.2008.0

System Requirements

Supported Operating System: Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2
BizTalk Server 2013 R2 System Center Operations Manager 2012

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[Free Ebook] Microsoft Azure Essentials: Fundamentals of Azure #FreeBook #Azure

Microsoft Azure Essentials: Fundamentals of Azure

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February 2015
246 pages

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[OpsMgr 2007 SP1][OpsMgr 2012] Microsoft System Center Management Pack for Dynamics CRM 2013 #DynamicsCRM2013 #OpsMgr

The System Center Management Pack for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2013 enables you to administer the Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2013 application in Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) 2007 SP1 or a later version.

Microsoft article

Details

The views, monitors, rules, and knowledge specific to Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2013 that comprise this Management Pack provide the means for System Center Operations Manager users to centrally manage the server application, its component services, and the computers on which they run. The Monitoring Pack for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2013 also contains monitoring for the Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2013 E-mail Router and Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2013 Reporting Extensions.
By managing these Microsoft Dynamics CRM components in System Center Operations Manager, the administrator can respond quickly to critical events and key performance indicators, and take action to prevent service outages, reduce the resolution time for alert conditions, and increase the overall availability and performance of the Microsoft Dynamics CRM system.

Feature Summary

 

- Monitors the availability and heath of the following components

• Microsoft Dynamics CRM Server 2013
• Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2013 E-mail Router
• Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2013 Reporting Extensions

- Monitors the availability and health of the following component services:

• Microsoft Dynamics CRM Asynchronous Processing Service
• Microsoft Dynamics CRM Asynchronous Processing Service (maintenance)
• Microsoft Dynamics CRM Sandbox Processing Service
• Microsoft Dynamics CRM E-mail Router Service
• Microsoft Dynamics CRM Unzip Service
• World Wide Web Publishing Service
• Indexing Service

- Monitors the availability and health of the following application components and functionality:

• Operability of ISV plug-ins
• Web application requests processing, SOAP exceptions, and unexpected failures

- Monitors the performance metrics of the following components:

• Web application requests processing
• Database query processing

- Monitors the system for configuration-related failures.

System Requirements

Supported Operating System

Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 Essentials

Other Software:

• System Center Operations Manager 2007 SP1 or a later version
• Microsoft Dynamics CRM Server 2013

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[OpsMgr 2012] System Center 2012 Management Pack for UNIX and Linux Operating Systems (2015/02 - version 7.5.1042.0) #UNIX #LINUX #OpsMgr2012

The Management Packs for UNIX and Linux Operating Systems enable discovering, monitoring, and managing UNIX and Linux computers with System Center 2012 – Operations Manager.

Microsoft Article

The UNIX and Linux Operating Systems Management Packs enable discovering, monitoring, and managing UNIX and Linux computers with System Center 2012 – Operations Manager, System Center 2012 SP1 - Operations Manager, and System Center 2012 R2 - Operations Manager. They provide both proactive and reactive monitoring of the UNIX and Linux operating systems. The management packs monitor components such as processes, resources, and server agents. The monitoring provided by the management packs includes availability and configuration monitoring, performance data collection, and default thresholds. You can integrate the monitoring of UNIX and Linux components into your service-oriented monitoring scenarios. In addition to health monitoring capabilities, the management packs include reports, diagnostics, tasks, and views that enable near real-time diagnosis and resolution of detected issues. The management packs also enable the installation of the Audit Collection Services for UNIX/Linux Management Packs.

Feature Summary
System Center 2012 Management Pack for Unix and Linux Operating Systems

• Provides monitoring of the AIX 5.3, AIX 6.1, and AIX 7 operating systems.
• Provides monitoring of the HP-UX 11iv2 and HP-UX 11iv3 operating systems.
• Provides monitoring of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4, Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5, Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 operating systems.
• Provides monitoring of Solaris 9, Solaris 10, and Solaris 11 operating systems.
• Provides monitoring of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP1, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11, and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 operating systems.
• Provides monitoring of CentOS 5, CentOS 6, and CentOS 7 operating systems
• Provides monitoring of Debian GNU/Linux 5, Debian GNU/Linux 6, and Debian GNU/Linux 7 operating systems
• Provides monitoring of Oracle Linux 5, Oracle Linux 6, and Oracle Linux 7 operating systems
• Provides monitoring of Ubuntu Linux Server 10.04 and Ubuntu Linux Server 12.04, and Ubuntu Linux Server 14.04 operating systems
• Enables the installation of the Audit Collection Services for UNIX/Linux Management Packs 

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[OpsMgr 2012 R2] Update Rollup 5 for System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager is now available #OpsMgr2012R2UR5

The article below describes the issues that are fixed in Update Rollup 5 for Microsoft System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager (OpsMgr 2012 R2 UR5)

KB3023138 - Description of Update Rollup 5 for System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager

 

 

Issues that are fixed in this update rollup

Operations Manager

• Monitoringhost process crashes because of bind failures against Active Directory
• RunAs accounts cannot be edited because of "Specified cast is invalid" exceptio
• Application crashes when a search is finished without filter criteria on Distributed application designer
• MonitoringHost crashes with the exception - System.OverflowException: Value was either too large or too small for an Int32
• Support to troubleshoot PowerShell scripts
• Operational Insights through Operations Manager
• "Reset the Baseline," "Pause the baseline," and "Resume the baseline" tasks fail when they are run against an Optimized performance collection rule
• An exception occurs when you edit subscriptions that contain deleted monitors or objects
• You can't set Widget column width
• Event 4506: Data was dropped because of too much outstanding data
• Support for handling Datawarehouse time-outs
• Can't continue scan with NOLOCK because of data movement
• $ScriptContext.Context does not persist the value in PowerShell widgets
• Evaluation version alert

UNIX/Linux management pack

• Updating the UNIX/Linux agent for Operations Manager resets deep monitoring status for JEE application servers.
• By default, the rpcimap monitor for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is now disabled.
• When you use the "scxadmin -log-rotate" utility, this stops logging to the agent’s log (/var/opt/microsoft/scx/log/scx.log) after log rotation is completed.

For more information, please read the Microsoft article here.

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[OpsMgr 2012 R2] System Center Management Packs for Data Protection Manager 2012 R2 Reporting, Discovery and Monitoring

This download contains the management pack files (*.MP) required to monitor and generate reports on Data Protection Manager (DPM) Servers centrally using System Center Operations Manager (SCOM). SCOM 2012 R2 is required to be installed and running. You need to select and download only the zip file with the name ending with your language-locale settings.

Link to Microsoft site

 

Supported Operating System
Windows Server 2008 R2 Datacenter, Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise, Windows Server 2008 R2 for Itanium-based Systems, Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter, Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials , Windows Server 2012 R2 Preview, Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard , Windows Server 2012 Release Candidate, Windows Server 2012 Standard

System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) 2012 R2
- Recommended: Minimum 8 GB RAM on the SCOM server. See OpsMgr hardware requirements.

Data Protection Manager (DPM) 2012 R2
- See System Center 2012 R2 hardware requirements.

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[OpsMgr 2012] System Center Management Pack for SQL Server 2008, 2012 and 2014 Analysis Services #OpsMgr2012 #ManagementPack #SQLServer

This week, Microsoft released Management Packs for SQL Server 2008, SQL Server 2012 and SQL Server 2014  Analysis Services.

The corresponding downloads are available at:

• System  Center Management Pack for SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services
• System  Center Management Pack for SQL Server 2012 Analysis Services
• System  Center Management Pack for SQL Server 2014 Analysis Services

The System Center Management Pack for SQL Server Analysis Services enables the discovery and monitoring of SQL Server Analysis Services Engines, Databases and Partitions.

These Management Pack are designed to be run by Operations Manager 2012 RTM or higher.

 

The monitoring provided by these management pack includes performance, availability and configuration scenarios, as well as performance data collection. All monitoring workflows have predefined thresholds and associated knowledge base articles.

In addition to the health monitoring capabilities, these management pack includes dashboards, diagram, state, performance and alert views.

 

 

Feature Summary for SQL Server 20xx Analysis Services

The following list gives an overview of features introduced by System Center Operations Manager Management Pack for SQL Server 20xx Analysis Services. Please refer to the SQL Server 20xx Analysis Services Management Pack Guide for more details.

SSAS Instance level monitoring

• Service state
• Memory Configuration Conflict with SQL Server
• TotalMemoryLimit Configuration
• Memory Usage
• Memory Usage on the Server
• Processing Pool Job Queue length
• Query Pool Queue length
• Default Storage Free Space
• CPU utilization

SSAS Database level monitoring

• Database Free Space
• Blocking Duration
• Blocking Session Count

SSAS Partition level monitoring

• Partition Storage Free Space

A number of performance collection rules

New features

New version of Generic Presentation Management Pack has been introduced

 

Summary dashboard for SQL Server Analysis Services 20xx Instances with drill-down to SQL

 

Services Analysis Services 20xx Database Dashboard

 

Summary dashboard for SQL Server Analysis Services 20xx Databases

 

Cross-version views

 

CPU utilization monitoring scenario on SSAS Instance level

New performance collection rules are introduced:

• SSAS 20xx: Database Disk Free Space (GB)
• SSAS 20xx: Database Drive Space Used By Others (GB)
• SSAS 20xx: Cache Evictions/sec
• SSAS 20xx: Cache Inserts/sec
• SSAS 20xx: Cache KB added/sec
• SSAS 20xx: CPU utilization (%)
• SSAS 20xx: Processing Rows read/sec
• SSAS 20xx: Storage Engine Query Rows sent/sec

Improvements:

• Icons for various classes are updated
• Performance counters object names are updated

Fixes:

• An issue related to the discovery of a non-cluster instance on a cluster virtual node is fixed
• Some other minor fixes

Other changes:

• Old dashboards are deprecated and removed

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[OpsMgr 2012] System Center Management Pack for Office 365 #Office365 #SCOMMP #Microsoft

 A release of the Microsoft Office 365 has been published yesterday. New version is now 7.0.5115.0.

Link to Microsoft download page

This version is fixing a bug that caused blank values to be shown in the “Display Name” column of the Subscription Health box on the Office365 Monitoring Dashboard. This happens only in SCOM environments upgraded from 2007 to 2012.



Supported Operating System

• Windows Server 2012 R2

The Office 365 Management Pack for Operations Manager is designed for the following versions of System Center Operations Manager:

• System Center Operations Manager 2012
• System Center Operations Manager 2012 SP1
• System Center Operations Manager 2012 R2

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[OpsMgr2 2007R2][OpsMgr2012 ] System Center Management Pack for Windows Server Operating System - Version 6.0.7296.0

Microsoft has released an update for the Management Pack for Windows Server Operating Systems !

Link to microsoft article

This version fixes the following problems:

• For platforms 2003, 2008, 2008 R2, the discovery script that was made for mount points was also discovering logical drives as mount points. This is now fixed.
• For the 2012 platforms 2012 R2, the discovery script mount points was engendering the rediscovery of logical drives resulting in the execution of rules again. This has been corrected
• For all platforms, duplicate performance rules were present

Supported Operating System
Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2
The Windows Server Operating System Management Pack for Operations Manager is designed for the following versions of System Center Operations Manager: • System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 • System Center Operations Manager 2012 • System Center Operations Manager 2012 SP1 • System Center Operations Manager 2012 R2

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