Monday, May 14, 2012

[OpsMgr 2007] Known Microsoft Knowledge Base articles, howtos, fixes, hotfixes, webcasts and updates from year 2007 to year 2012

This list contains all of the known Microsoft Knowledge Base articles, howtos, fixes, hotfixes, webcasts and updates of Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) 2007 that have been released in Year 2007 to Year 2012.

List updated on October 2012 the 5th. I will try to often update this post.

2012
 

2011
·         955523 Web console hotfix package for System Center Operations Manager 2007 Q955523 KB955523 October 8, 2011
·         2591380 System Center Operations Manager 2007 Support for SQL 2005 SP4 Q2591380 KB2591380 August 18, 2011
·         2449679 System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Cumulative Update 4 Q2449679 KB2449679 July 26, 2011
·         934756 How to test email notification settings in Operations Manager 2007 Q934756 KB934756 April 22, 2011
·         2251525 System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Cumulative Update 3 Q2251525 KB2251525 March 3, 2011
·         2275658 Operations Manager 2007 Report Creation, Scheduling Q2275658 KB2275658 February 21, 2011
·         2252943 Configuring Native Mode for Configuration Manager 2007 Q2252943 KB2252943 February 21, 2011


2010
 2009
·         2002620 OpsMgr 2007: Operations Console does not open and gives SDK service error Q2002620 KB2002620 October 7, 2009
·         938997 Operations Manager 2007 Support Tools requirements Q938997 KB938997 June 3, 2009
·         961725 DBCreateWizard.exe fails with an Exception when run on a 64-bit OS Q961725 KB961725 January 5, 2009




2008
·         960883 Modifications required to run the Web Console on a FIPS compliant server Q960883 KB960883 December 5, 2008
·         948098 SCOM 2007: Gateway server is not working properly after installation. Q948098 KB948098 January 23, 2008
·         948096 SCOM 2007: Exchange MP Reports - "Top 100" Returns 'Blank' Q948096 KB948096 January 23, 2008




2007
·         944346 SCOM Installation fails on 64 bit Windows Server Q944346 KB944346 October 29, 2007






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Friday, May 11, 2012

[OpsMgr 2012] System Center Monitoring Pack for UNIX and Linux Operating Systems

Version:             7.3.2097.0
Date published:  5/7/2012
Language:          English


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


File name
Size
AIXMPGuide.doc692 KBDownload
HPUXMPGuide.doc553 KBDownload
Monitoring Pack for UNIX and Linux Operating Systems.msi334.3 MBDownload
RHELMPGuide.doc773 KBDownload
SLESMPGuide.doc750 KBDownload
SolarisMPGuide.doc729 KBDownload


Overview

The UNIX and Linux Operating Systems Monitoring Packs enable discovering, monitoring, and managing UNIX and Linux computers with System Center 2012 – 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
  • Provides monitoring of the AIX 5.3, 6.1, and AIX 7 operating systems.
  • Provides monitoring of the HP-UX 11iv2 PA-RISC, HP-UX 11iv2 IA64, HP-UX 11iv3 PA-RISC, and HP-UX 11iv3 IA64 operating systems.
  • Provides monitoring of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4 (x64), Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 (x64) and Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 (x64) 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, and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 operating systems.
  • Enables the installation of the Audit Collection Services for UNIX/Linux Management Packs.

System requirements

Supported operating systems: Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2

  • Other Software: System Center 2012 - Operations Manager

Instructions


  1. Download and install Update Rollup 1 for System Center 2012 – Operations Manager
  2. Download the management packs
  3. Import the management packs for the monitored server types.
  4. Use the Operations Console to upgrade the UNIX and Linux agents in the Administration\UNIX/Linux computers view.

Release History
  • TBD - Original English release, version 7.3.2097.0

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Thursday, May 10, 2012

[OpsMgr 2007R2][OpsMgr 2012] Regular expression support in System Center Operations Manager - KB2702651

Article ID: 2702651 - Last Review: May 3, 2012 - Revision: 2.0
 
The authoring of management packs may need to include regular expression matching in discoveries and groups, as well as for pattern matching in expression criteria in monitors and rules.
There are two different types of regular expression support in the SCOM product, and you have to know which element you are working in to choose the correct one.  Specifically, Group membership calculation and expression filters use distinctly different syntaxes for pattern matching.






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Wednesday, May 9, 2012

[OpsMgr 2007] Powershell Script to list patches / CU applied on SCOM Agents

Here is a short powershell script to determine what is the CU level of all your agent. Launch this code in a powershell shell, connected to your management group.


  1. $class = get-monitoringclass -name "Microsoft.SystemCenter.HealthService"
  2. $property = $class.getmonitoringproperties() | ? { $_.Name -eq "PatchList" }
  3. $Result = get-agent | ft -auto Name, @{Label="PatchList"; Expression={$_.hostedhealthservice.getmonitoringpropertyvalue($property)} }


$Result exported in an excel sheet should look like :
 


This could be usefull to follow CU deployment on agents.




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[OpsMgr 2012] Update Rollup 1 for System Center 2012 - Operation Manager SP1

 Article ID: 2686249 - Last Review: May 7, 2012 - Revision: 3.1
 
Less than a month after the general availability of the product, Microsoft is delivering a first cumulative update package (CU1) for System Center Operations Manager 2012. He brings including support for Solaris 11 (x86 and SPARC).

This cumulative update (KB2686249) addresses the following issues :
 
 
 
Operations Manager Update (KB2674695) – Windows monitoringEnvironment crashes in Operations Manager because of RoleInstanceStatusProbe module in AzureMP.
  1. When multiple (two or three) consoles are running on the same computer under the same user account, the consoles may crash.
  2. You cannot start or stop tracing for Reporting and Web Console if they were installed to a stand-alone server that is running IIS.
  3. Connected Group alert viewing is not working, but no error is given in console.
  4. Task result - CompletedWithInfo not supported with the SDK2007 assemblies.
  5. SeriesFactory and Microsoft.SystemCenter.Visualization.DatatoSeriesController have to be public to give the controls extensibility and reuse.
  6. WebConsole is not FIPS compliant out of the box.
  7. Network Dashboard should overlay Availability when displaying health state.
  8. Dashboards: Group picker does not show all groups in large environment.
  9. IIS Discovery: Prevent GetAdminSection from failing when framework version was detected incorrectly by IIS API.
  10. Performance Counters are not displayed in the Application list view of AppDiagnostics.
  11. Console crashes when state view with self-contained object class is opened.
  12. PerformanceWidget displays stale "last value" in the legend because of core data access DataModel.
  13. Availability Report and "Computer Not Reachable" Monitor display incorrect data.
  14. Agent install fails on Win8 Core because of dependency on the .NET Framework 2.0.
  15. Web Services Availability Monitoring Wizard - Console crashes if the wizard finishes before a test has finished.
  16. Several Windows PowerShell changes are needed:
  • Changed License parameter in Get-SCOMAccessLicense to ShowLicense
  • Changed SCOMConnectorForTier cmdlets to SCOMTierConnector
  • Some formatting changes
 

Operations Manager Update (KB2674695) – Unix and Linux monitoringSchannel error events are logged to the System log on Operations Manager Management servers and on gateways that manage UNIX/Linux agents.
  1. On HP-UX, Operations Manager cannot discover and monitor a logical volume composed of more than 127 physical volumes.
  2. Upgrade of UNIX and Linux agents fails when using Run As credentials in the Agent Upgrade Wizard or Update-SCXAgent Windows PowerShell cmdlet.
Operations Manager Update (KB2674695) – New featureUpdate Rollup1 for Operations Manager adds support for Oracle Solaris 11 (x86 and SPARC).
 
 
 

How to obtain and install Update Rollup 1 for System Center 2012


To download the update packages for Operations Manager, go to the following Microsoft Download Center website:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=c593536c-94f3-4c71-b963-5ab3b7fc05e1 (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=c593536c-94f3-4c71-b963-5ab3b7fc05e1)
  • To obtain and install the update packages from Microsoft Update, follow these steps on a system that has a Virtual Machine Manager or App Controller component installed:
    1. Click Start, and then click Control Panel.
    2. In Control Panel, double-click Windows Update.
    3. In the Windows Update window, click Check Online for updates from Microsoft Update.
    4. Click the important updates are available hyperlink.
    5. Select Update Rollup 1, and then click OK.
    6. Click Install updates to install the update package.

Installation instructions for Operations Manager
Known issues for this update
  • No updates items appeared in Control Panel ARP after installing Update Rollup 1 (UR1). After installing UR1 on server and all roles (except Agent and Gateway), no update item appears in Control Panel ARP list.
  • The version number of the console does not change after installing Update Rollup 1 in the UI. After installing Update Rollup 1 ,the version number of the console is still 7.0.8560.0 in the UI.
  • After installing UR1 on web console, a Server Error in "/OperationsManager" Application appears in Internet Explorer. Closing and restarting Internet Explorer resolves this problem.
Notes on installation
  • Operations Manager Update Rollup 1 will at first be available only in English and cannot be applied to non-English products. Fixes included in this UR will be localized in a future release.
  • User must run updates as administrator.
  • If UAC is enabled, MSPs must be run from an elevated command prompt window.
  • System Administrator rights on the database instances for the Operational Database and Data warehouse are required in order to run updates on these databases.
  • User has to close console before applying console update to avoid having to restart.
  • Restart and clear cache of the browser to obtain new Silverlight instance.
  • This UR should not be installed immediately after installing server. Otherwise, user could encounter an issue in which Health Service state remains uninitialized.
  • Web console fixes will work after adding the following line to the %windir%\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v2.0.50727\CONFIG\web.config file:

    <machineKey validationKey="AutoGenerate,IsolateApps"
    decryptionKey="AutoGenerate,IsolateApps" validation="3DES" decryption="3DES"/>

    The line should be added under <system.web>, as described in the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
    911722  (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/911722/ ) You may receive an error message when you access ASP.NET Web pages that have ViewState enabled after you upgrade from ASP.NET 1.1 to ASP.NET 2.0
Supported installation order
We recommend that you install this update rollup in the following order.

Note This update rollup can be installed on agents either before or after server infrastructure.
  1. Server infrastructure:
    1. Management server or servers
    2. Gateway servers
    3. Reporting servers
    4. Web console server role computer
    5. Operations console role computers
    6. Manually imported management packs
  2. Apply the agent update to manually installed agents, or push installation from the Pending view in the Operations console.
Note If Connected MG/Tiering is enabled, the top tier should be patched first.
Installation Information
To extract the files that are contained in this update, follow these steps:
  1. Copy the following file to either a local folder or an available network share, and then execute the file to extract it:
    SystemCenter2012OperationsManager-CU1-KB2674695-X86-X64-IA64-ENU.exe
  2. Apply the appropriate MSPs to each computer. All MSPs that apply to a given computer must be applied. For example, if a Management Server also has Web Console and Console roles installed, three MSP packages should be applied to the Management Server. The following MSPs are included in the update:
    • KB2674695-AMD64-Agent.msp
    • KB2674695-AMD64-Console.msp
    • KB2674695-AMD64-Gateway.msp
    • KB2674695-AMD64-Reporting.msp
    • KB2674695-AMD64-Server.msp
    • KB2674695-AMD64-WebConsole.msp
    • KB2674695-i386-Agent.msp
    • KB2674695-i386-Console.msp
    • KB2674695-ia64-Agent.msp
  3. Import the following management packs:
    1. Microsoft.SystemCenter.DataWarehouse.Library.mpb
    2. Microsoft.SystemCenter.Visualization.Library.mpb
    3. Microsoft.SystemCenter.WebApplicationSolutions.Library.mpb

      For information about how to import a management pack from disk, go to the following Microsoft TechNet website:


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