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SCOM 2016: Updated SQL Management Packs v7.0.2.0

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New versions of the SQL management packs have been released get them using the links below:

SQL Server 2016 – here
SQL Server 2014 – here
SQL Server 2008/2012 – here
SQL Server Dashboards – here

New in Version 7.0.2.0

SQL Server 2008/2012/2014/2016

  • Fixed issue: Always On data source scripts fail as Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.PSSnapins.dll is not imported
  • Fixed issue: Always On monitoring scripts may fail because of “No coercion operator is defined…” error (caused by an issue in PowerShell 5.0)
  • Fixed Dashboards issue: “DW data early aggregation” rule crashes on SCOM 2016

SQL Server Dashboards

  • Fixed issue: “DW data early aggregation” rule crashes on SCOM 2016

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Management Pack Recap – January 2018 Wave

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This is a summary of the wave of Management Packs that were released in January 2018. Information and download location in the links provided:

Lenovo XClarity Integrator Hardware MP v7.3 – here

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 2016: New management pack for Lenovo XClarity Integrator Hardware

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Lenovo has released a new management pack to integrate SCOM with XClarity it is available here.

Key features include:

  • Extensive monitoring of the health of hardware components for System x and ThinkSystem servers,  Flex chassis nodes and BladeCenter blades via BMC (out-of-band mode).
  • Extensive monitoring of the health of hardware components for System x servers, Flex chassis nodes and BladeCenter blades running Windows (in-band mode).
  • Rich monitoring of the health of Flex and BladeCenter chassis/modules via the SNMP protocol.
  • Easy determination of overall system health by the aggregation of hardware health monitors.
  • Power Monitoring of UEFI/BMC System x Servers and Blades running Windows. Offers the ability to monitor overall system power usage, and generates alerts when power consumption rises above predefined consumption thresholds. Enable Power Capping and set the maximum power consumption wattage via Operation Manage Agent task.
  • BladeCenter and Blade hardware health correlation and event propagation providing BladeCenter specific hardware health condition monitoring under the Windows health explorer view.
  • Remote power on and off of Blades Servers via the Operations Manager console.
  • Offer the ability to launch a CMM Web Console of a Flex System Chassis from the Operations Manager Console.
  • Offer the ability to view System x power data using the System x Power Data Chart.
  • Offer the ability to support SQL Server database and migrate data from the PostgreSQL to the SQL Server.
  • Offer the ability to discover and manage system BMC automatically.
  • Offer the ability to configure Unified Service from the Operations Manager Console

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Management Pack Recap – November 2017 Wave

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This is a summary of the wave of Management Packs that were released in November 2017. Information and download location in the links provided:

DHCP 2012 R2 v6.0.7307 – here
DHCP 2016 v10.0.9.0 – here
SQL Server MP v7.0.0.0 – here

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 2016: Updated MP for SQL 2017+

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Hot off the press an updated management pack for monitoring of SQL 2017 and all future versions of SQL get version 6.7.65.0 here

New in this version:

  • The management pack was reimplemented in order to enable monitoring SQL Server 2017 and all upcoming SQL Server versions
  • Introduced a number of fixes and improvements to functionality, performance, and display strings
  • Reduced the number of files in the management pack
  • Removed dependency on SQL Server Dashboards management pack

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SCOM 2016: Updated MP DHCP 2012 v6.0.7307.0

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A new version of the DHCP 2012 management pack has been released and has lots of bug fixes, get version 6.0.7307.0 here

Updated in this version:

  • DHCP Failover Server Relationship Discovery was failing as the Scope ID length max limit was 4000. The Scope ID length limit has been increased to 65536.
  • Alert description for “DHCP IPv4 Runtime Service Bound to Static IP Address Monitor”,”DHCP Dependent Service Health Monitor”,”DHCP Database Integrity Monitor” have been updated, users can comprehend and troubleshoot the situation better with such information.
  • To reduce the alert noise created with multiple alerts of same type, the alert rules “DHCP Back Up Database Warning Rule”, “DHCP IPv4 Runtime DNS Registration Rule”,” DHCP IPv4 Runtime Users Group Configuration Rule” and “DHCP Database Integrity Warning Rule” are suppressed so that only the alert count increases and not generate new alerts
  • “Collect ALL DHCP Server Performance Data” rule has been fixed to ingest right data in the registry key, thus indicating the correct health state of the entity
  • “DHCP Performance Health Monitor” which was always in not-monitored state has been rectified to correctly show the health state of the entity it monitors
  • “DHCP Server 2012 R2 Super Scope Addresses Available Percentage Monitor” that was failing to change state on critical alerts, has been fixed to show the appropriate state so the users do not miss out on critical state.

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Management Pack Recap – September 2017 Wave

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This is a summary of the wave of Management Packs that were released in September 2017. Information and download location in the links provided:

Talon FAST Storage MP v1.0.0.149 – here
Unix and Linux MPs v7.6.1076.0  – here

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 2016: Updated MP DHCP 2016 v10.0.9.0

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A new version of the DHCP 2016 management pack has been released get version 10.0.9.0 here

Changes in this version:

  • Fixed issue: DHCP Failover Server Relationship Discovery was failing as the Scope ID length max limit was 4000. The Scope ID length limit has been increased to 65536.
  • Fixed issue: Alert description for “DHCP IPv4 Runtime Service Bound to Static IP Address Monitor”,”DHCP Dependent Service Health Monitor”,”DHCP Database Integrity Monitor” have been updated, users can comprehend and troubleshoot the situation better with such information.
  • Fixed issue: To reduce the alert noise created with multiple alerts of same type, the alert rules “DHCP Back Up Database Warning Rule”, “DHCP IPv4 Runtime DNS Registration Rule”,” DHCP IPv4 Runtime Users Group Configuration Rule” and “DHCP Database Integrity Warning Rule” are suppressed so that only the alert count increases and not generate new alerts
  • Fixed issue: “Collect ALL DHCP Server Performance Data” rule has been fixed to ingest right data in the registry key, thus indicating the correct health state of the entity
  • Fixed issue: “DHCP Performance Health Monitor” which was always in not-monitored state has been rectified to correctly show the health state of the entity it monitors
  • Fixed issue: “DHCP Server 2012 R2 Super Scope Addresses Available Percentage Monitor” that was failing to change state on critical alerts, has been fixed to show the appropriate state so the users do not miss out on critical state.

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SCOM: Updated MP for Talon FAST Storage v1.0.0.149

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Talon have released an updated version of their FAST storage management pack for SCOM get it here.

In this version

  • Operational Management
    • Systems level inventory
    • Patch level inventory
  • Availability Management
    • Systems Health Status
    • Event Viewer
    • SCOM alerting
    • i.e. Key services not running
  • Systems Optimization
    • % Cache Utilized
    • Cache Purge alert via SCOM

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