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SCOM 2019: Update Rollup 5 is out!

UR5 for SCOM 2019 is available get it here!

A reasonable update with some quality-of-life fixes and enhancements, the most notable addition is the ability to discover SCOM MI instances in Azure which supports the hybrid approach to giving a single pane of glass across your on-prem and cloud IaaS estate.

Improvements

  • Discover Azure Monitor SCOM Managed Instance (preview) from SCOM console.

Issues that are fixed

Operations Manager 2019 Update Rollup 5 includes fixes for the following issues:

  • Fixed an issue where editing an existing Maintenance Mode schedule does not change the Reason and/or Comment.
  • Fixed an issue where when setting Maintenance Mode via PowerShell, the Availability Reports were not reflecting correct information.
  • Fixed the issue in which Member column in group View was introducing delay in group operations.
  • Fixed an issue of users getting HTTP200 error when trying to setup Log Analytics connection.
  • The script (GetOpsMgrDBPercentFreeSpace.vbs) which is part of System Center Core Monitoring MP monitor has been moved from VBS to PowerShell and, now reports Operations DataBase free space correctly.
  • A new registry key (for debugging purposes) to enable Bad.xml file creation is introduced in UR5 which does not exist by default but needs to be created. Registry key details below.
    • [HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\HealthService\Parameters] – XmlDebugEnabled (DWORD) – default 0 and 1 for ENABLED

Security Enhancements

  • Fixed multiple Web Console Security Vulnerabilities.
    • Note: The Web.config files of both HTMLDashboard and MonitoringView web apps will be replaced, so any changes done to settings inside of these will have to be remade.
  • The organization of temporary files used for kerberos based authentication is further enhanced to prevent any misuse.
  • Fixed Data parsing issues in Linux agent that might cause the agent to crash.

Unix/Linux/Network monitoring fixes and changes

  • Fixed an issue where msgAuthenticationParameters needs to have 0 length during engine discovery of SNMPv3 devices. Also
  • Fixed an issue related to SNMP Discovery where we see MonitoringHost.exe crashes.
  • Fixed the issue where user was unable to run Get-SCXAgent and Invoke-SCXDiscovery remotely using Invoke-Command.
  • Fixed Linux agent crash issue caused by variable out of scope issue for _HandleGetClassReq.
  • Fixed an issue that would causes Linux agent to crash when DSC provider is installed.
  • Added supportability on Operations Manager Linux Agent for Rocky Linux 8, Alma Linux 8. systems with OpenSSL 3.0, RHEL 9.0 and Ubuntu 22.

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SCOM 2019: Update rollup 4 has arrived!

UR 4 is a fairly big update with a host of improvements and fixes, as always it can be downloaded from the catalog here now lets dive right in.

Overall some expected improvements to suppport later operating systems and versiosn of .net there are a tonn of fixes mostly around correcting minior issues which are too numerous to list here but can be found on the KB page

Improvements

  • Support for Windows 11
  • Enabled .NET4.8 support
  • UI improvements in Operations console:
    • Support for sort option by column, in Overrides Summary.
    • For Monitors, Rules, Task and Discoveries, Management Pack label text is selectable in the workflow Properties window.
    • Added new fields for Class Technical Name in the State Views. Added the same in the wizard for creating a new Alert, Event, Performance or State View.
    • Added Target Class Display Name to help identify the target of a rule while selecting rules during the creation of a new Performance View.
    • Added 3 new columns Management Pack, Sealed and Members in the Authoring pane > Groups.

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SCOM 2019: Which management server is my gateway paired to?

Sometimes for a variety of reasons it becomes necessary to try and figure out which gateways are paired to which management servers and unfortunately this is a configuration that can often slip under the radar when documenting a management group.

Luckily there is a simply way to figure this out without having to log on to each server and trawl through the registry.

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Get-SCOMGatewayManagementServer | where {$_.Name –eq “< GATEWAY SERVER >”} | Get-SCOMParentManagementServer

Note: this command has changed slightly from past versions of SCOM

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SCOM 2019: Scheduled reports fail to run – The job failed. Unable to determine if the owner has access

I encountered a minor issue today which luckily proved simple to solve. Hopefully this proves useful to others.

The Issue:

In a brand new SCOM 2019 deployment the scheduled reports weren’t sending. After investigation I found the below error in the Application log on the SSRS server:

SQL Server Scheduled Job ’62A9826E-082B-4ACD-9270-6BC13FC260BE’ (0x832F33183531EF4483665BBBFCCEBD9A) – Status: Failed – Invoked on: 2020-08-05 11:00:00 – Message: The job failed. Unable to determine if the owner (DOMAIN\USER) of job 62A9826E-082B-4ACD-9270-6BC13FC260BE has server access (reason: Could not obtain information about Windows NT group/user ‘DOMAIN\USER’, error code 0x5. [SQLSTATE 42000] (Error 15404)).

The Solution

The SSRS Instance, in this case SQL 2016 SP2, was deployed using system accounts for the SQL Server and SQL agent services. Simply changing these to use a domain account with access to the SQL instance resolved the issue and reports started sending shortly after.

See the source image

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SCOM 2019: Update Rollup 2 Released!

UR 2 for SCOM 2019 is out and it’s a big one get it here

This is a fantastic update with the long awaited MP change tracking feature and tons of fixes.

What’s new?

  • Change tracking for management packs
  • Improvements in scheduled maintenance mode
  • Favorite reports in web console
  • Support for folders in monitoring view of web console
  • Support for CentOS 8

What’s fixed?

This is a big update and the list of fixes is long as this includes not only the recent SCOM hotfix but also many other useful changes see here for the full list.

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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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Silect Dashboards for SCOM

Silect has released an awesome set of dashboards for SCOM and best of all they’re free. You can request your copy here.

All you need to get started is PowerBI Desktop available here, then load the pbix file and edit the data source to point at your SCOM database instances.

Then hit refresh and you’ll have 10 nice health dashboards with an overview of your SCOM environment.

I really like this solution, it’s elegant and easy to setup. Great job Silect.

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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: News from Ignite

This year at Ignite SCOM had it’s own dedicated session which is great to see. Here is a summary of the new upcoming features in UR1.

Version Agnostic Management Packs
Storage Spaces Direct (S2D) MP
RHEL 8 Support
One click patching experience
Support for gMSA
Relability and Performance Improvemennts for Linux Agent
Common Management Pack for Linux
Resource Group monitoring in Azure MP
Azure MP Web Console Dashboards

The ones I’m most looking forward to are of course the support for gMSA, with security being so critical in today’s IT real-estate this features adds an additional layer of peace of mind to your SCOM monitoring.

The one click patching experience is also a nice quality of life improvement, I had the privilege to see this in action and I like the direction this is going.

More agnostic management packs are also on the way which will simplify administration of products the same way we’ve seen them improve the SQL monitoring experience.

What do you think of this update? Leave a comment or if you have an idea head over to the SCOM Uservoice https://systemcenterom.uservoice.com/forums/293064-general-operations-manager-feedback and let the product group know.

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