Category Archives: Management Pack

SCOM 2019: New version of the SQL Management Pack v7.0.24.0

The latest version of the SQL version agnostic mp is out you can get it here

What’s New

  • Added a new “Securables Configuration Status” monitor targeted to SQL Server databases
  • Updated the “Product Version Compliance” monitor with the most recent versions of public updates for SQL Server
  • Updated the “Securables Configuration Status” monitor targeted to the DB Engine when a SQL Server instance participates in Availability Groups
  • Removed the “Securables Configuration Status” monitor targeted to the Availability Replica as non-useful
  • Updated the “SQL Server Database Engines” discovery; the “Netbios Computer Name” property is now uppercased.
  • Added reports from version-specific management packs for SQL Server
  • Updated monitor “Job Duration” to add current job run’s duration to its alert description
  • Updated Web Console version of SQL MP Dashboards to support SCOM 2019 UR1
  • Updated alert description of monitor “Securables Configuration Status”
  • Added “CheckStartupType” property to SSIS Health Status monitor
  • Revised columns of SQL Agent and SQL Agent Jobs state views
  • Updated display strings

Issues Fixed

  • Fixed error “Unsupported path format” in workflows targeting Filegroups
  • Fixed discovery error on non-readable availability replicas
  • Fixed wrong Run As profile in SSIS Seed Discovery
  • Fixed issue that caused rule “Disable Discovery of Selected DB Engines” to fail
  • Fixed discovery issue for databases in recovering state
  • Fixed issue in monitor “Securables Configuration Status” when it went critical on Shared-Memory-only SQL Servers
  • Fixed the Alerting Rules data source to avoid an alert storm after exiting maintenance mode
  • Fixed the SQL Log Reader data source to support changing of the SQL Authentication method
  • Fixed the Performance Reader data source to support changing of the SQL Authentication method

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SCOM 2019: Updated SQL Management Packs for SSRS and SSAS v7.0.22.0

Updated management packs for SSRS and SSAS have been released, they are available at the below links and support versions from 2012 through to 2019 and now include Power BI Report Server:

SQL Server Analysis Services

SQL Server Reporting Services

SQL Server Analysis Services MP Changelog

What’s New

  • Added support for SQL Server Analysis Services 2012, 2014, and 2016 in addition to previously supported 2017 and up
  • Added Start/Stop Analysis Services Windows Service tasks
  • Implemented Database Status monitor 
  • Updated display strings

SQL Server Reporting Services MP Changelog

What’s New

  • Added support for monitoring SQL Server Reporting Services 2012, 2014, and 2016 in addition to 2017 and up
  • Added Start/Stop Reporting Services Windows Service tasks
  • Updated Event Log Collection Target Management Server Discovery to make it use default SCOM action profile instead of SQL MP Discovery run as profile
  • Updated display name of SSRS Deployment object to display AG name as part of it instead of GUID
  • Updated logic of installation detection for local Reporting Services instance to query Windows Registry instead of WMI
  • Improved error handling for cases when error “Process with an Id is not running” is returned
  • Updated display strings

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed false alerting with status code 400 in monitor Report Manager Accessible for SSRS 2016 and PBIRS
  • Fixed alert parameter replacement failure in monitor Report Manager Accessible
  • Fixed issue with accessing DBConnectionString property of PBIRS
  • Fixed NullReferenceException error when Report Server portal being configured to have several ports

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Management Pack Recap – January & February 2020 Wave

This is a summary of the wave of Management Packs that were released in January and February 2020. Information and download location in the links provided:

Certificate MP v1.4.3.0here
SQL Management Pack v7.0.20.0here
Oracle Management pack v1.3.1683.0here

If you know of any other Management Packs that have been released recently that I may have missed leave me a note in the comments and I’ll add them

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SCOM: OpsLogix has updated their Oracle Management pack v1.3.1683.0

The great crew over at OpsLogix has a new Oracle MP for us to ring in 2020, it’s available here

What’s different?

Changes

  • Rewritten the complete backend to make usage of a collector service. This way we detach the SCOM modules from the Oracle client resulting in a way less footprint and more performance.
  • Moved the Oracle configuration dashboard from monitoring pane to Administration pane.
  • Rewritten the Oracle configuration dashboard. Please read documentation how to use.
  • Added Opslogix General Reports MP to the install package.
  • The container DB discovery is now by default disabled.

Fixes

  • The connection monitor now only reports an error when it is x times (2 default) in unhealthy state.
  • When creating a connection alert a parameter could not be resolved for the alert description.
  • During getting sysstats information with containing very big numbers the converting to SCOM data could be broken

and yes it is upgradable from  V1.3.0.0 or later

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SCOM: Updated SQL Management Pack v7.0.20.0

A new version of the sql agnistoc MP is out get it here

What’s New

  • Updated MP to support SQL Server 2019 RTM
  • Added filter by edition to “Local DB Engine Discovery”
  • Redesigned DB Space monitoring to improve performance: Enabled by default
  • monitors and performance rules targeting Database which watch for disk space consumption by ROWS Filegroups and Logfiles
  • Redesigned DB Space monitoring: Added two monitors and two performance rules
  • targeting Database to watch for disk space consumption by In-Memory and
  • FILESTREAM data
  • Redesigned DB Space monitoring: Read-only filegroups now count as well
  • Redesigned DB Space monitoring: Disabled by default all workflows targeting
  • Filegroups, Files, Logfiles
  • Redesigned XTP performance counters to make them completely version-agnostic
  • Added attribute “TCP Port” to “SQL DB Engine Class” and updated “DB Engine
  • Discovery” to populate the new property
  • Added summary dashboard for SCOM 2019 Web Console (HTML5)
  • Added support for cluster nodes with disjoined namespaces
  • Added sampling to algorithm of monitor “WMI Health State” in order to eliminate
  • false alerting on cluster SQL Server instances
  • Updated alert descriptions of monitors “Availability Database,” “Availability Replica,”
  • and “Availability Group” (generating alerts still disabled by default)
  • Updated monitor “Product Version Compliance” with versions of most recent public
  • updates to SQL Server
  • Disabled by default monitor “Buffer Cache Hit Ratio” and changed its threshold
  • from 0% to 90%
  • Disabled by default monitor “Page Life Expectancy”
  • Removed monitors “Availability Database Join State” and “Availability Replica Join
  • State” as not useful
  • Updated display strings
  • Revised columns on DB Engine state views

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed: monitor “Service Principal Name Configuration Status” raises false alerts
  • because of case-sensitive comparison
  • Fixed: “Local DB Engine Discovery” crashes when Windows has Turkish locale
  • Fixed issue that caused performance degradation in workflows “General Always On
  • Discovery,” “Database Replica Discovery,” and “Always On System Policy
  • Monitoring”
  • Fixed: “General Always On Discovery” throws errors on environments with several
  • Distributed Availability Groups
  • Fixed monitoring issue in case of Database is replicated by Always On Availability
  • Group
  • Fixed empty property bag when Availability Group has cluster type NONE
  • Fixed wrong target in alerting rule “DB Backup Failed to Complete”
  • Fixed rule “MSSQL Integration Services on Windows: The package restarted from
  • checkpoint file” and its alert
  • Fixed rule “OS Error occurred while performing I/O on pages“ and its alert
  • Fixed: “DB Disk Write Latency” and “DB Disk Read Latency” monitors and
  • performance rules get wrong performance metric
  • Fixed alert description of monitor “WMI Health State”

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SCOM 2019: Updated Azure Management Pack v1.8.0.1

A new version of the Azure management pack has been released you can get it it here

What’s new

  • Enabled Resource Group filtering for subscription
  • Modified Alert description for all Alert types
  • Enabled multi-resource metric alerts support

What’s Fixed:

  • Fixed health state issue to be in sync with Azure portal
  • Fixed ‘unknown’ state issue for metric alert

Note: Upgrade is supported from v1.6.0.7 and v1.7.0.0. Existing template will be honored.

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Management Pack Recap – July & August 2019 Wave

This is a summary of the wave of Management Packs that were released in July & August 2019. Information and download location in the links provided:

SQL SSRS & SSAS 7.0.17.0here

HP Storage v9.4here

If you know of any other Management Packs that have been released recently that I may have missed leave me a note in the comments and I’ll add them

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SCOM: Updated Management packs for HP Storage

HP has released updated MPs to go with the new version of HP Oneview

It’s a solid update with useful new features such as integration with the new HTML 5 console.

What’s new in HPE OneView for Microsoft System Center 9.4?

The new version is available for download the HPE OneView Partner integration page and the HPE Storage Integration with Microsoft System Center page. It includes the following improvements:

  • HPE OneView for Microsoft System Center v.9.4 the latest HPE Storage array software. For more information, see Integration Matrix
  • HPE Storage Management Pack for System Center v.5.0 supports monitoring of HPE 3PAR StoreServ Storage systems with IPv4 and IPV6 connectivity
  • HPE OneView SCVMM Integration Kit v.5.0 supports HPE 3PAR StoreServ Storage systems with IPv4 and IPV6 connectivity
  • Support for HPE OneView 5.0
  • The System Center Operations Manager 2016 web console integration is now fully HTML5 compliant. The dependency on legacy frameworks has been removed to enable a predictable, consistent user experience for the web console users

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SCOM: Updated SSRS and SSAS management pack v7.0.17.0

Updates to SQL Server Reporting Services and Analysis Services Management Packs have been released you can get them at the below links:

SSRS
SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services (Native Mode)
SQL Server 2012 Reporting Services (Native Mode)
SQL Server 2014 Reporting Services (Native Mode)
SQL Server 2016 Reporting Services (Native Mode)
SSAS
SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services
SQL Server 2012 Analysis Services
SQL Server 2014 Analysis Services
SQL Server 2016 Analysis Services


Fixes and changes for SSRS

  • SSRS 2016: Updated monitoring of Memory Consumption and CPU Usage in order to collect performance data for all subprocesses in addition to the main SSRS service process.
  • SSRS 2016: Updated monitors “Report manager accessible” and “Web service accessible” to consider specifics in how appropriate SSRS 2016 web services work
  • Added support for cases when connection string to SSRS Database is set up the way different from “MachineName\InstanceName” (e.g., <IPAddress,Port>) and SSRS Database is in Availability Group or hosted either by named instance or SQL Cluster instance
  • Improved descriptions of events thrown by management pack to make it easier to figure out error reason
  • Improved error handling and error descriptions for cases when workflows can’t get responses from WMI
  • Improved error handling in workflows that watch for memory consumption
  • Fixed Start/Stop tasks
  • Fixed issue that caused some workflows to throw error events when SQL Server instance hosting SSRS Databases happened to stop operating or refuse connections
  • Fixed issue which caused Reporting Service instance to get undiscovered when WMI didn’t respond to calls
  • Updated display strings

Fixes and changes for SSAS

  • Added performance collections for MDX Query performance counters
  • Added retry logic to some workflows in order to reduce “Category does not exist” errors thrown when WMI fail to respond
  • Improved error handling in workflows that watch for memory consumption
  • Improved descriptions of events thrown by management pack to make it easier to figure out error reason
  • Fixed Start/Stop tasks
  • Fixed issue when “SQLServerInstalled” property was set to “False” if SQL Server DB Engine was of higher version than SSAS instance
  • Updated Dashboards configuration to show tiles for new MDX performance collections
  • Updated display strings

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