2015 has been a challenging year for me and one constant that I have had it the joy of seeing Opsman continue to grow. I would like to thank everyone who supports my content and wish everyone a safe and happy festive season. Happy monitoring!
Dynamics 2016 has also received a new management pack to allow for comprehensive monitoring. It is available for download here.
A minor release update to version 7.0.0.1 is now available here for the Dynamics CRM MP.
It looks like there has been an updated released of the Azure Pack MP but the documentation has not been updated and the version on the download page still shows the original release 1.0.0.161. Hopefully this is corrected soon.
Link here.
A new version of the Windows Server DNS MP has been released it is available for download here.
New in this version:
Kevin Holman has written a post on how to to discover a Windows Computer as a Network Device in SCOM 2012.
The design choice to not allow snmp discovers of windows devices was questioned heavily when it was announced and caused vendor management packs such as Netbackup not to work.
This is a welcome discovery you can read the full article here. The below is for my record.
On the management server which will run the network discovery rules – browse to the following directory:
\Program Files\Microsoft System Center 2012 R2\Operations Manager\Server\NetworkMonitoring\rules\discovery
There is a file present in this directory named ic-post-processor.asl
Make a backup copy of this file, I like to name it ic-post-processor.bak, and place this backup copy in the same directly. Now, edit this file, and change the following lines:
ISWINDOWSHOST(systemObj) do {
if (systemObj->Type == “HOST” && systemObj->Vendor == “MICROSOFT”) {
return TRUE ;
}
if (SEARCHSTRING(systemObj->Description, “Windows”)) {
return TRUE ;
}
systemOIDCheck = “.1.3.6.1.4.1.311.1.1.3.1” ;
if (substring(systemObj->SystemObjectID, 0, sizeof(systemOIDCheck)) == systemOIDCheck) {
return TRUE ;
}
systemOIDCheck = “.1.3.6.1.4.1.99.1.1.3.11” ;
if (substring(systemObj->SystemObjectID, 0, sizeof(systemOIDCheck)) == systemOIDCheck) {
return TRUE ;
}
return FALSE ;
}
to:
ISWINDOWSHOST(systemObj) do {
if (systemObj->Type == “HOST” && systemObj->Vendor == “MICROSOFT”) {
return FALSE ;
}
if (SEARCHSTRING(systemObj->Description, “Windows”)) {
return FALSE ;
}
systemOIDCheck = “.1.3.6.1.4.1.311.1.1.3.1” ;
if (substring(systemObj->SystemObjectID, 0, sizeof(systemOIDCheck)) == systemOIDCheck) {
return FALSE ;
}
systemOIDCheck = “.1.3.6.1.4.1.99.1.1.3.11” ;
if (substring(systemObj->SystemObjectID, 0, sizeof(systemOIDCheck)) == systemOIDCheck) {
return FALSE ;
}
return FALSE ;
}
Some good news doing the rounds is that VSAE now offers supports for Visual Studio 2015.
You can download them here
Happy authoring
An updated version of the Dynamics CRM 2015 management pack has been released it is available for download here.
The documentation has not bee updated with the changes yet.
A new feature has been made available for preview in OMS, this gives us the capability to send an email alert based on a threshold criteria.
Alex Frankel over at the Microsoft Engineering blog has a great article on how to enable and configure this feature, with current limitations and how to provide feedback
Here is a sample of what the alert email looks like:
This is a summary of the wave of Management Packs that were released in November 2015. Information and download location in the links provided:
OpsLogix Swift Management Pack V2.5.1.57 – here
Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2015 Management Pack v14.0.24622.0 – here
SQL Server v 6.6.3.0 – here
SQL Server v 6.6.4.0 – here
Windows Server 2012 DHCP v6.0.7299.0 – here
Opslogix VMWare ManagementPack V1.3.1.1 – here
Management Pack for Microsoft Azure (Technical Preview) v 1.3.10.0 – 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.