Thursday, February 27, 2014

[OpsMgr 2012] Trigger On Demand Discovery task ( #OpsMgr2012 #SystemCenter)

Hello all,

I'm today working on some issues with SQL discoveries and we Have Microsoft guy on site to bring some help. For debugging he wanted to trigger discoveries on demand and I realized that I already wrote a post on that topic !



 
To be able to execute this task you need to know the DiscoveryId by using the Get-ScomDiscovery cmdlet with the -Displayname parameter, or if you know it the -Name parameter - It will look something along the lines of: 94d82cfb-2644-97ab-b42c-f0438d77b90a and the TargetInstanceId
by using the Get-ScomClass and Get-ScomClassInstance cmdlets.
Not so easy !
 
Michel Kamp has published a post HERE with a powershell script that will call the SCOM task. Instead of using Ids, the script allow you to use the Discovery Display Name and the Discovery Target Display Name that you can both retrieve in the SCOM console. Well it's more user friendly !
 
Testing is in progress - seems to work ! Good !



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Wednesday, February 26, 2014

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Thursday, January 30, 2014

[OpsMgr 2012 SP1] System Center 2012 Operations Manager SP1 Update Rollup 5 ( #OpsMgr #OpsMgr2012 )

This article describes the issues that are fixed in Update Rollup 5 for Microsoft System Center 2012 Operations Manager Service Pack 1 (SP1). Additionally, this article contains the installation instructions for Update Rollup 5 for System Center 2012 Operations Manager SP1.

Update Rollup 5 for System Center 2012 SP1 - Operations Manager includes all previous update rollups for System Center 2012 SP1 - Operations Manager.





Issues that are fixed in this update rollup


Operations Manager

Issue 1

An error occurs when you run the p_DataPurging stored procedure. This error occurs when the query processor runs out of internal resources and cannot produce a query plan.

Issue 2

By default, data warehouse bulk-insert commands use an unchangeable 30-second time-out value that may cause query time-outs.

Issue 3

Many 26319 errors are generated when you use the Operator role. This issue causes performance problems.

Issue 4

Diagram component does not publish location information in the component state.

Issue 5

Renaming a group works correctly on the console. However the group appears with the old name when you try to override a monitor or scope a view based on group.

Issue 6

SCOM synchronization is not supported in the localized versions of Team Foundation Server.

Issue 7

An SDK process deadlock causes the Exchange correlation engine to fail.

Operations Manager - UNIX and Linux Monitoring (Management Pack Update)


Issue 1

In rare cases, the agent on a Solaris Zone that is configured to use dynamic CPU allocation with Dynamic Resource Pools may hang during routine monitoring.

Note This issue can occur on any monitored Solaris Zone that is configured to use Dynamic Resource Pools and a "dedicated-cpu" configuration that involves a range of CPUs.

Issue 2

If the agent fails to retrieve process arguments from the getargs subroutine on an AIX-based computer, the monitored daemons may be incorrectly reported as offline. An error message that resembles the following is logged in the agent log:

Calling getargs() returned an error
.
Issue 3

The agent on AIX-based computers considers all file cache to be available memory and does not treat minperm cache as used memory. After this update rollup is installed, available memory on AIX-based computer is calculated as: free memory + (cache – minperm).

Issue 4
The Universal Linux agent fails to install on Linux computers with OpenSSL versions greater than 1.0.0 if the library file libssl.so.1.0.0 does not exist. An error message that resembles the following is logged:

/opt/microsoft/scx/bin/tools/.scxsslconfig: error while loading shared libraries: libssl.so.1.0.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Issue 5

Spurious errors that are related to the InstanceID property of the SCX_Endpoint are logged in the System log every four hours.






Installation instructions


Installation instructions for Operations Manager

Known issues for this update
  • After you install the update rollup package on all roles on the server that is running System Center Operations Manager 2012 (except on the Agent and Gateway roles), the updates do not appear in the Add or Remove Programs item in Control Panel.
  • After you apply Update Rollup 5, the Operations Manager console has to be reopened in order to apply the Alert Attachment Management Pack fix.
  • After you install the update rollup package, the version number of the console is not changed.
  • If the ACS update package is installed, uninstalled then re-installed the database upgrade script that's included in this update will not run, because the database version is changed during the first installation of the ACS update. This could trigger a server crash if the user reuses a partition with the partition still in place.

    The partition can be closed manually by using SQL Server Studio, navigating to the ACS database and running the following script in a query editor window:

    begin tran
    
    -- mark all active partitions for closing
    
    if (select count(*) from dtPartition where Status = 0) > 0    update dtPartition set Status = 1 where Status = 0
    
    commit tran 
  • After you install the update rollup package on a web console, you receive the following error message in Internet Explorer:

    Server Error in '/OperationsManager' Application.
    To resolve this issue, close and then restart Internet Explorer.

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Thursday, December 5, 2013

[SCOM 2012 R2][Advisor] What can System Center Advisor in OpsMgr 2012 R2 do for you! ( #OpsMgr2012 #Advisor )

I've had no time to play with SCOM 2012 R2 version yet but I found an interesting article on Advisor that is now completely integrated into OpsMgr.




You can find this article here : What can System Center Advisor in OpsMgr 2012 R2 do for you! 


To complete the information on Advisor, you can also read this article from SCOMFAq : SCOM 2012 R2 – System Center Advisor Overview

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Monday, December 2, 2013

[SCOM 2012] How to analyze a workflow when the OpsMgr Workflow Analyzer doesn’t work ? ( #OpsMgr #Debugging )


Brian McDermott explains in this article how manually enable traces to debug your workflows whilst developing them. You certainly already have had issue using the Workflow analyser tool and this methode will also allow you to do traces manually.




To summarize, Brian McDermott shows us hos to create an override to enable the trace - not using the console that doesn't the porperty named 'TraceEnable'.


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[Free Ebook] Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows Server 2012 TechNet Library documentation as a PDF ( #eBook #Technet )

This download is an Adobe® PDF of the entire contents of the Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows Server 2012 section of the Microsoft TechNet Library, for the convenience of Windows Server users who have limited Internet access, or require a portable version of the Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows Server 2012 documentation. 



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Friday, November 29, 2013

[OpsMgr 2012 R2] Upgrading Operations Manager from 2012 SP1 to 2012 R2 step by step


Brett Boone has share with System Center Central site a step-by-step guide to upgrade your Operations Manager from 2012 SP1 to 2012 R2.



The following blog posts discusses the process to upgrade from Operations Manager 2012 SP1 to Operations Manager 2012 R2. This blog post also shows the steps required to integrate the new System Center Advisor functionality available with 2012 R2.

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