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.

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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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