[OpsMgr 2007 R2] [OpsMgr 2012] Microsoft System Center Management Pack for SQL Server #SQL #OpsMgr

We just have in place the last version of the SQL Monitoring in our productions environment and Microsoft has released a new one. New version is now 6.6.0.0 and please find here the different link on the Microsoft site.  

 

 

- 'SQL Server 2005 2008 2012'  Version: '6.6.0.0'  Released on: '12-15-2014'

- 'SQL Server 2014'  Version: '6.6.0.0'  Released on: '12-15-2014'
- 'SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services (Native Mode)'  Version: '6.6.0.0'  Released on: '11-4-2014'
- 'SQL Server 2012 Reporting Services (Native Mode)'  Version: '6.6.0.0'  Released on: '11-4-2014'
- 'SQL Server 2012 Analysis Services'  Version: '6.6.0.0'  Released on: '11-4-2014'
- 'SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services'  Version: '6.6.0.0'  Released on: '11-4-2014'
- 'SQL Server 2014 Reporting Services (Native Mode)'  Version: '6.6.0.0'  Released on: '11-4-2014'
- 'SQL Server 2014 Analysis Services'  Version: '6.6.0.0'  Released on: '11-4-2014'

 

The Management pack for SQL Server provides the capabilities for Operations Manager 2007 R2 and Operations Manager 2012 to discover SQL Server 2005, 2008, 2008 R2, and SQL Server 2012. It monitors SQL Server components such as database engine instances, databases, and SQL Server agents.

The monitoring provided by this management pack includes performance, availability, and configuration monitoring, performance data collection, and default thresholds. You can integrate the monitoring of SQL Server components into your service-oriented monitoring scenarios.

In addition to health monitoring capabilities, this management pack includes dashboard views, diagram views and extensive knowledge with embedded inline tasks, and views that enable near real-time diagnosis and resolution of detected issues.

Important Prerequisite Notes:
Clusters: In order to ensure that all monitoring works correctly for clustered instances of SQL Server ensure that your OpsMgr agents on the physical nodes of the cluster are running either OpsMgr 2007 R2 or OpsMgr 2007 SP1 with the most recent cumulative update for OpsMgr 2007 SP1 applied or OpsMgr 2012. 

Changes in June 2015 Update of the SQL 2005,2008,2012 and 2014 Management pack

SQL Server Management Pack version 6.6.0.0 includes the following changes:

·         Dashboards were replaced with the new ones
·         Components of replication functionality are deprecated and disabled by default
·        SPN monitor now correctly handles disjoined namespaces
·         Added support for filegroups containing filestreams and partition schemes
·         Memory Consumption monitor has been fixed
·         Upgradeability from 6.4.1.0 version is supported
·         Added CPU Usage monitor and rule for SQL Server 2005
·         Added ConsecutiveSamples Condition to the Buffer Cache Hit Ratio and Page Life Expectancy monitors
·         AlwaysOn discovery was reworked
·         Minor fixes.


For more information, read the détails on the different Microsoft download pages.
 

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[OpsMgr 2007 R2][OpsMgr 2012] Skype for Business Server 2015, Management Pack #SkypeForBusiness #Opsmgr2012 #OpsMgr2007R2

 

Skype for Business Server 2015, Management Pack 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 Skype for Business Server 2015 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 Skype for Business Server 2015 roles.

Direct link to Microsoft Download Page

 

 

 

System Requirements

• Supported Operating System
• Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012 R2

System Center Operations Manager:

• System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2
• System Center Operations Manager 2012; 64-bit agents only 

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[Orcherstrator] System Center Orchestrator Migration Toolkit Version 7.3 #Azure #Orchestrator #Toolkit

A collection of tools for migrating integration packs, standard activities, and runbooks from System Center 2012 – Orchestrator to Azure Automation and Service Management Automation. 

 Direct link to Microsoft article

The System Center Orchestrator Migration Toolkit consists of the following tools.

Integration Pack Converter
This tool converts integration packs that were created using the Orchestrator Integration Toolkit to integration modules based on Windows PowerShell that can be imported into Azure Automation or Service Management Automation. Using the tool’s wizard, you can select the activities in the integration pack that will be converted to cmdlets in the integration module. Placeholders are created for monitor activities that are not supported in Azure Automation or Service Management Automation.

Standard Activities module
Integration module that contains all of the standard activities used in Orchestrator Runbooks that can be imported into Azure Automation or Service Management Automation. This module must be installed in your environment prior to importing any runbook converted with the Runbook Converter.

Runbook Converter (coming soon)
This tool converts Orchestrator runbooks into graphical runbooks that can be imported into Azure Automation.

System Requirements

Supported Operating System

• Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter, Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard
• Supported Operating System
• Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2

Recommended Configuration for System Center Orchestrator Migration Toolkit

• RAM – minimum 1GB recommended 2GB
• Disk space minimum 200MB
• CPU Dual Core or better
• Windows Server 2012 R2
• .Net 4.5

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System Center Operations Manager Customer Survey

The Operations Manager team is interested in your feedback! They are committed to keeping customers like you happy and productive. Your response to this survey will help them better understand your needs and problems so that they can improve the next version of Operations Manager.

To answer the survey, click >>>   HERE   <<<
 

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System Center 2016 Technical Preview 2 is released

This System Center 2016 Technial Preview 2 release, available here on the TechNet Evaluation Center since one week seems to come earlier than previously annouced by Microsoft...

TechNet Evaluation Center

Microsoft System Center Technical Preview 2 delivers unified management across on-premises, service provider, and Microsoft Azure environments, thereby enabling the Microsoft Cloud Platform. System Center offers exciting new features and enhancements across infrastructure provisioning, infrastructure monitoring, application performance monitoring, automation, backup and IT service management.
As a reminder, these are early pre-release builds. Many of the features and scenarios are still in development. As such, this preview is not intended for production environments, labs, nor full evaluations.
System Center Technical Preview 2 includes System Center Configuration Manager and Endpoint Protection Technical Preview.
System Center Configuration Manager helps IT manage PCs and servers, keeping software up-to-date, setting configuration and security policies, and monitoring system status while giving employees access to corporate applications on the devices that they choose. When Configuration Manager is integrated with Microsoft Intune, you can manage corporate-connected PCs, Macs and UNIX/Linux servers along with cloud-based mobile devices running Windows, Windows Phone, iOS, and Android, all from a single management console.
System Center Endpoint Protection protects client and server operating systems against the latest malware threats. It is built on System Center Configuration Manager, giving customers a unified infrastructure for client security and compliance management.

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[OpsMgr 2012 SP1] Microsoft System Center Operations Manager Management Pack for Windows Server Storage Spaces 2012 R2 - Version 1.1.253.0

This management pack monitors the health of Windows Server Storage Spaces

Direct link to Microsoft article

System Requirements

Supported Operating System

• Windows Server 2012 R2

System Center Operations Manager 2012 SP1 or later 

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[OpsMgr 2007 R2] Windows Server Print Server Management Pack for System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2

The Microsoft Windows Server Print Server Management Pack monitors the performance and availability of print servers running on Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows Server 2012.
In addition to monitoring the health of print servers, the management pack can also provide insight into the status of shared printers. By detecting, alerting on, and automatically responding to critical events and performance indicators, this management pack helps indicate, correct, and prevent possible operating system service outages.

Direct link to Microsoft page

Feature Summary

The management pack provides functionality to:

• Monitor performance and Windows events
• Display detailed monitoring data through views
• Allow operator to manage print servers
• Ensure correct configurations

Release History

• 6/1/2007 - Original release of the English version, version 6.0.5000.0
• 3/18/2008 - Updated release, version 6.0.5000.36
• 8/25/2008 - Updated release to add support for Windows Server 2008, version 6.0.6392.0
• 12/07/2012 - Updated release to add support for Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows Server 2012, version 6.0.7004.0
• 5/08/2015 - Updated release to add support for print clusters, version 6.0.7294.0

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[System Center TP2 Operations Manager] System Center Technical Preview Management Packs for Open Source Software

The Management Packs for Open Source Software enable discovering, monitoring, and managing MySQL Server and Apache HTTP Server with System Center Technical Preview – Operations Manager.

 

Direct link to Microsoft page

 

 

Feature Summary

OSS Management Packs for System Center TP2 Operations Manager

• Apache HTTP Server 2.2 - 2.4
• MySQL Server 5.0 , 5.1, 5.5, 5.6, 5.7 / MariaDB 5.5, 10.0

System Requirements

Supported Operating System

• Windows 10 Tech Preview , Windows Server Tech Preview

System Center Technical Preview - Operations Manager

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[OpsMgr 2012 R2] Update Rollup 6 for System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager has been published #OpsMgr #OpsMgr2012 #UpdateRollup6

Microsoft Article : Clic >>> Here <<< to open the Microsoft article

 

Issues that are fixed in this update rollup

Operations Manager

• The "Remove-DisabledClassInstance" Windows PowerShell command times out without completing
  
  The cmdlet takes lots of time to complete in large SCOM installations and sometimes times out without completing its work. This is fixed by optimizing the query that is used for deletion. 
  
• Duplicate closed alerts
  
  The Find option in a message view sometimes gives results of the current search together with the results from previous searches. This occurs because of an update issue in the grid and is fixed so that values are displayed that correspond only to the current search. 
  
• Topology widget objects lose location when they are opened in a console that has a different locale and decimal format
  
  Topology widgets that are created in one locale but are viewed from another locale display an incorrect location because of the widget's inability to interpret locale-specific formatting. This issue is fixed, and users can now create and view topology widgets from different locales.
  
• WebConsole Details widget does not display anything
  
  When you click a message in the Alert widget, the details of the message are not displayed in the details widget on WebConsole. This issue is fixed by fixing the XAML page of the details widget. The XAML page was preventing the data from being displayed on the page.
  
• Top 10 Performance widgets (WebConsole) are sometimes empty
  
  The Top 10 Performance widgets (WebConsole) are sometimes empty because of a performance issue. This issue was fixed in Update Rollup 3 through an MPB file that requires a manual import. Because many users missed importing the MPB, a fix is included in this update rollup as an SQL query update.
  
• Problem with decoding SCOM trace log files
  
  Sometimes Operations Manager trace logs do not decode but generate the error "Unknown(X ): GUID=XXX (No Format Information found)." This occurs because the latest TMF files that contain formatting information for the related traces are missing. All TMF files are updated to make sure that traces are formatted correctly.

Unix/Linux Management Pack

• JEE: WebLogic 12.1.3 servers on Linux or Solaris are not discovered
  
  WebLogic 12cR1 Rel3 Java Application Servers that are installed on Linux and Solaris are not discovered.
  
  Note The UNIX or Linux agent must be updated after you install the Management Pack update to resolve this issue.
  
  Relevant log messages:
  
  /var/opt/microsoft/scx/scx.log
  
  
  2015-02-04T15:28:18,797Z
  Trace [scx.core.common.pal.system.appserver.appserverenumeration:379:15739:139715041470400] Weblogic process does not contain the 'platform.home' or 'weblogic.system.BootIdentityFile' commandline argument.
  
  2015-02-04T15:28:18,797Z
  Trace [scx.core.common.pal.system.appserver.appserverenumeration:462:15739:139715041470400] Merging previously known instances with current running processes
  
  
• In rare cases, lots of omiagent processes may be observed on a UNIX or Linux computer
  
  If a single instance of data that is returned by an OMI provider is larger than 64 kilobytes (KB), the omiagent process becomes unresponsive, and additional omiagent processes are created. This issue can occur on a managed UNIX- or Linux-based computer if a rule or monitor returns an instance of data larger than 64 KB. This is most likely to be seen when a custom shell command or script rules return lots of data in StdOut.
  
  Note After you upgrade the Operations Manager UNIX/Linux agent to the version that is contained in this Management Pack update, an instance that exceeds 64 KB will be truncated and will generate the following message in the scx.log file. You can use the log message to identify and change the workflow that is returning too much data.
  
  
  ExecuteCommand: Exceeded maximum output size for provider (64k), output truncated. Monitoring will not be reliable! Command executed: "
  
  
• The SSLv3 protocol cannot be disabled in OpenSSL as used by the UNIX and Linux agents
  
  With this update, you can now disable the SSLv3 protocol for the Operations Manager UNIX and Linux agents. You can do this by adding a property to omiserver.conf (/etc/opt/microsoft/scx/conf). If SSLv3 is disabled, the UNIX and Linux agent will reject connections that cannot be negotiated by using TLS encryption. If SSLv3 is enabled (this is the default configuration), SSLv3 will be used only if TLS encryption cannot be negotiated.
  
  omiserver.conf options for configuration SSLv3
   
  Property	Description
  NoSSLv3=true|false	Enable/Disables use of SSLv3

 

 

 

Manual download of the update packages

Go to the following website to manually download the update packages from the Microsoft Update Catalog:

Download the Operations Manager update package now.

 

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[OpsMgr 2012][OpsMgr 2012 R2] System Center Management Pack for Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V - Version 7.1.10107.0 #HyperV #Hyper-V

Microsoft System Center Management Pack for Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V helps you monitor the health and availability of computers configured for Hyper-V server role and running Windows Server 2012 R2.

 

Link to Microsoft article

 

​Microsoft System Center Management Pack for Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V helps you monitor the health and availability of computers configured for Hyper-V server role and running Windows Server 2012 R2.

 

System Requirements

Supported Operating System
Windows Server 2012 R2

Other Software
This management pack is supported to run in System Center 2012 Operations Manager, System Center 2012 Operations Manager SP1, and System Center 2012 Operations Manager R2.

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[OpsMgr 2012 R2] System Center Management Packs for Data Protection Manager 2012 R2 Reporting, DedupReporter, 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). The management guide document (*.docx) also provided with this download contains detailed instructions on how to set up, configure, deploy reporting centrally on the Operations Manager server and how to use the new enhanced extensible DPM Reporting Framework to generate custom aggregable reports. SC OpsMgr 2012 R2 is required to be installed and running.

Direct link to Microsoft Article

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] Microsoft System Center Management Pack for Dynamics CRM 2015 - version 7.0.0.0 #CRM2015 #OpsMgr

The System Center Management Pack for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2015 enables you to administer the Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2015 application in Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) 2012 or a later version.

Microsoft Article

The views, monitors, rules, and knowledge specific to Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2015 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 2015 also contains monitoring for the Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2015 E-mail Router and Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2015 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

Supported Operating System

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

Other Software:

• System Center Operations Manager 2012 or a later version
• Microsoft Dynamics CRM Server 2015

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[OpsMgr2012] System Center 2012 Management Pack for Microsoft Windows Server AD CS 2012 #OpsMgr2012 #ADCS2012

This management pack provides an early warning to administrators on issues that could affect services so that administrators can investigate and take corrective action, if necessary.

Microsoft Article

This management pack provides an early warning to administrators on issues that could affect services so that administrators can investigate and take corrective action, if necessary. The management pack helps to simplify the administrative environment by providing a single console for the administrator to perform a number of useful management tasks. To help troubleshoot common issues, the management pack contains helpful product knowledge and a way to extend this knowledge through adding your own company or organization knowledge related to an issue.

Feature Summary

The System Center Management Pack for Active Directory Certificate Services provides monitoring for the following core areas and scenarios:

• CA service status checking.
• Event monitors.

Release History

• 10/18/2013 - version 7.1.10100.0
• 9/25/2012 - Original release, version 7.0.8560.0

Supported Operating System
Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2
Note: CA only (no support for Online Responder or other Active Directory Certificate Services role Services. This management pack is supported to run in System Center 2012 Operations Manager, System Center 2012 Operations Manager SP1 and System Center 2012 Operations Manager R2

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[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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[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.

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties.

[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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