Category Archives: SCOM 2016

SCOM 2016: UR10 released!

Update rollup 10 for SCOM is out you can get it here.

This is a reasonably solid update with a few fixes for some long outstanding issues.

Improvements and issues that are fixed


  • Management Pack Import is now compatible for SCOM 2007 –> SCOM 2016 Upgrade version when upgraded directly or Indirectly.
  • The exception which blocked further progress when the user attempted to configure web application availability monitoring has been fixed.
  • The security issue regarding reverse tabnabbing has been fixed in the operations manager web console.
  • Fixed the Cross-site Scripting (XSS) related security issue in the operations manager web console.
  • The cmdlet Export-SCOMEffectiveMonitoringConfiguration has been fixed to give a correct summary of the applicable monitors, rules and overrides on an object.
  • Quarterly report end date will be shown correctly for the first quarter when the “From” field is selected as “First day of previous quarter” and “To” field is selected as “Last day of previous quarter”.
  • Reports have been fixed to not show objects which have been deleted before the selected start time.
  • VB scripts for partition and grooming, calculate operations manager free space and detecting duplicate agent will now run without failure even if SNAC or MSOLEDBSQL are not installed.
  • The issue regarding the TLS 1.2 compatibility in the OleDB module has been fixed. It is no longer mandatory for the provider element to be the first reference in the connection string.
  • Fix has been provided for when the monitor erroneously turned critical due to the URL module incorrectly parsing the charset header value.
  • The  .NET API  issue regarding scheduling reports via the schedule management wizard has now been fixed.  
  • Performance improvement: Added “Recompile” hint to the stored procedures “p_SelectForTypeCache” and “p_SelectForNewTypeCache” that run frequently on SCOM DB.

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SCOM 2016: UR9 released!

The latest Update Rollup for SCOM 2016 is out, you can get it here

A decent update fixing a couple of issues that have been around for a while. As always test before applying to your production environments.

What’s new and fixed?


  • Fixed: On Windows Computer View of SCOM Console, Queries are optimized for better performance.
  • Fixed: We have updated SPROC to handle Alert Source Path Names which are greater than 512 in length. It was a mismatch where the table which was populating the DB was allowing larger strings while the table which was populated in this view took only 512. This caused data truncation and subsequently console crash.
  • Fixed: Made changes to the IP address parameter to support both IPv4 and IPv6 windows cluster.
  • Fixed: Fixed the issue with conversion of data smaller than 0.01 which was generated by Rule or Monitor. The data was transformed to a wrong (big) value on systems with OS locale language which has comma (“,”) instead of dot (“.”) as decimal format.
  • Fixed: Fixed the schedule reports through the Schedule Management Wizard in APM AppAdvisor. Previously, it was failing with XML Malformed exception.
  • Fixed: In a scenario where SCOM monitors 100s of virtual machines hosted on a single Hyper-v server; every hour the MonitoringHost.exe of each Virtual machine write into the VM page file simultaneously. Due to this concurrent paging, every hour disk I/O increases and database becomes unresponsive. HealthService.exe now have Memory Trimming enabled by default on an hourly schedule. A registry key is provided to disable the memory trimming and control the duration.

Registry key is: “HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Microsoft Operations Manager\3.0\Setup\MonitoringHost\MemoryTrimmingEnable – 0 (Trimming is disabled); 1 (trimming is enabled)DelayInSeconds – Time period agent waits to start trimming (default is 120s)PeriodInSeconds – Recurring period at which the working set should be  trimmed (default is 3600s)

  • Fixed: Downtime duration will be calculated correctly for non-US time format in Downtime Report.
  • Fixed: fn_MPVersionDependentId creates an ID for each installed MP. The ID is a SHA1 hash of string “MPName, Version, Schema”. When the “Schema” part is omitted, it generates different hash which doesn’t match with the expected value. In the fix, “Schema=2” part is re-added in fn_MPVersionDependentId.
  • Fixed: We have made sure that correct end date for Availability, Health and Performance Details are shown in reports
  • Enabled support for MSOLEDBSQL driver so that users may move from SQL Native Client.

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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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SCOM 2016: UR 8 is now available!

Update Rollup 8 for SCOM 2016 is now available, as usual you can get it through windows update or via the download catalogue here

Improvements and fixes


  • Fixed: In a scenario where SCOM monitors 100s of virtual machines hosted on a single Hyper-v server; every hour the healthservice.exe of each Virtual machine write into the VM page file simultaneously. Due to this concurrent paging, every hour disk I/O increases and database becomes unresponsive. HealthService.exe now have Memory Trimming enabled by default on an hourly schedule. A registry key is provided to disable the memory trimming and control the duration.

          Registry key is: “HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Microsoft Operations Manager\3.0\Setup\MemoryTrimming”

         Enable – 0 (Trimming is disabled); 1 (trimming is enabled)

         DelayInSeconds – Time period agent waits to start trimming (default is 120s)

         PeriodInSeconds – Recurring period at which the working set should be  trimmed (default is 3600s)

  • Fixed: Historical data do not appear, if input reporting end time is before group creation time. With this fix, historic data for a group (if data is available for objects in the group) would be displayed irrespective of group creation time.
  • Fixed: Maintenance mode state changes which are recorded in MaintenanceModeStage table requires grooming when table grows. If the table is large, grooming takes longer and the operation times out with SQLTimeOut exception.
  • Fixed: If a group is renamed in a Management pack, then console shows the new value but Powershell command Get-SCOMGroup returns the old name of group. Database Updates functionality was inconsistent for SCOM group renaming through MP and SCOM Console.
  • Fixed: CPU Spike issues because of workflows running on all agents at the same time is addressed through script optimization and removing the sync time.
  • Fixed: If the registry key under “Computer\HKey_Local_Machine\Software\Microsoft\Microsoft Operations Manager\3.0\Setup\UseMIApi” is set and a Unix/Linux Script task without a parameter is executed then this task fails. 
  • Improvement: Sometimes SQL stored procedure “p_SelectForNewTypeCache” takes long time to complete, and SDK service fails to start. This is fixed and above SQL stored procedure will complete faster now.

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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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SCOM: Updated Lenovo Hardware Management Pack v7.6.0.8

A new version of the Lenovo Hardware management pack is available get it here

What’s New

  • View and monitor XClarity Integrator Service in the Operations Manager console.
  • Disable BMC node auto-discovery and authentication by default.
  • Support to only manage the BMC of servers already managed by Operations Manager.
  • Monitor the BMC authentication state.
  • Support to remove BMC nodes in batch.
  • Support Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2019.

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SCOM 2016: UR7 is Live

Update rollup 7 for SCOM is now available as usual you can get it through windows update or here

How to guide – here note the known issues and slight change to getting started.

A decent update with quite a few fixes listed below:

Improvements and issues that are fixed


  • Fixed: Cannot use SQLOleDB.dll to probe databases like Oracle/MySQL.
  • Improved the performance of SCOM console in listing the groups.
  • Operations Manager grooms out the alert history only on an alert closure.
  • Agents by Health State report shows duplicate agent names.
  • Users of a scoped group are not able to use the Console.
  • Fixed an issue that prevented addition of a group in the Storage Spaces Direct 2016 management pack dashboard.
  • SCOM Network Device Re-Discovery now probes for SNMP V3 devices too.
  • Fixed re-registering for SNMP Traps in the Proxy Management Server.
  • Windows Computer Property “NetbiosDomainName” is not discovered properly.
  • SCOM console crashes while trying to connect to Azure Log Analytics and Azure Monitor.
  • Linux agent is not able to get the correct version and port details for JBoss EAP 7.1.
  • An issue that lead to creation of multiple empty temp files in the /tmp directory of Linux servers has been fixed.
  • Fixed the formatting issue with the output for the task ‘Top10 CPU Processes’ when using Windows Management Infrastructure (MI) APIs.
  • XPlat agent now supports monitoring of SUSE-11 SP4 platform with Security Module installed on it for TLS 1.2 compliance.
  • Fixed an issue that caused the corruption of /etc/login.cfg file on AIX 7 machines during install/upgrade of the agent.
  • AIX Agent is now transitioned to 64-bit package to accommodate more stack and heap space if needed to avoid any stack/heap overflow which occasionally leads to heartbeat failure.
  • Free memory calculation accommodated appropriately on RHEL-7 platform.

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