Monthly Archives: January 2017

SCOM 2012 R2: Update Rollup 12 Released

UR12 for SCOM 2012 R2 has been release as usual you can get it from the download catalog or through windows update.

Changes and fixes

    • When you try to upgrade System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager Reporting Server to System Center 2016 Operations Manager reporting server, the upgrade fails for the following configuration:
      • Server A is configured as System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager including Management Server.
      • Server B is configured as System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager, including Operations Manager Database (OpsMgrDB), Operations Manager Data Warehouse (OpsMgrDW) and Operations Manager Reporting Server.
( X ) Management Server Upgraded Check

The management server to which this component reports has not been upgraded.

    • Recovery tasks on “Computer Not Reachable” messages in the System Center Operations Manager Monitor generate failed logons for System Center Operations Manager Agents that are not part of the same domain as the Management Groups.
    • When a Management Server is removed from the All Management Servers Resource Pool, the monitoring host process do not update the Type Space Cache.
    • SHA1 is deprecated for the System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager Agent and SHA2 is now supported.
    • Because of incorrect computations of configuration and overrides, some managed entities go into an unmonitored state. This behavior is accompanied by event 1215 errors that are logged in the Operations Manager log.
    • IntelliTrace Profiling workflows fail on certain Windows operating system versions. The workflow cannot resolve Shell32 interface issues correctly.
    • There is a character limitation of 50 characters on the custom fields in the notification subscription criteria. This update increases the size of the limitation to 255 characters.
    • You cannot add Windows Client computers for Operational Insights (OMS) monitoring. This update fixes the OMS Managed Computers wizard in the System Center Operations Manager Administration pane to let you search or add Windows Client computers.
    • When you use the Unix Process Monitoring Template wizard to add a new template to the monitor processes on UNIX servers, the monitored data is not inserted into the database. This issue occurs until the Monitoring Host is restarted. Additionally, the following is logged in the Operations Manager log file:
      Log entry:

      Log Name:      Operations Manager
      Source:        Health Service Modules
      Date:
      Event ID:      10801
      Task Category: None
      Level:         Error
      Keywords:      Classic
      User:          N/A
      Computer:
      Description:    Discovery data couldn’t be inserted to the database. This could have happened because of one of the following reasons:
      – Discovery data is stale. The discovery data is generated by an MP recently deleted.
      – Database connectivity problems or database running out of space.
      – Discovery data received is not valid.

Additionally, you may receive the following exception, which causes this issue to occur:

Exception:

Exception type:   Microsoft.EnterpriseManagement.Common.DataItemDoesNotExistException
Message:          ManagedTypeId = ccf81b2f-4b92-bbaf-f53e-d42cd9591c1c
InnerException:   <none>
StackTrace (generated):            SP               IP               Function            000000000EE4EF10 00007FF8789773D5 Microsoft_EnterpriseManagement_DataAccessLayer!Microsoft.EnterpriseManagement.DataAccessLayer.TypeSpaceData.IsDerivedFrom(System.Guid, System.Guid)+0x385

Changes and fixes for Unix and Linux

  • RHEL 7 on Power8 is now supported in System Center2012 R2 Operations Manager
  • SHA1 is deprecated and SHA2 is now supported on the management server that’s used to sign the UNIX/Linux Operations Manager i (OMi) certificate.
  • OMi start attempts fail on all FIPS-enabled UNIX/Linux systems. This fix updates the agents to support FIPS-enabled systems.
  • The Average Physical disk sec/transfer performance counters are not displayed for Hewlett Packard systems.
  • OMi displays incorrect memory information for Solaris 10 systems.
  • The Network Adapter Performance counter is not displayed for SLES 12 x64 platforms in the console.
  • You can’t discover file systems on HPUX 11.31 IA-64 computers that have more than 128 disks. Previously, only 128 VGs were supported. This update extends support to 256 VGs.
  • Deep monitoring can’t be started successfully for some Jboss applications because the discovery of the Jboss application server sets the DiskPath for the Jboss server incorrect. Deep monitoring is not started in JBoss stand-alone mode when a nondefault configuration is used. This update provides additional support for JBoss stand-alone mode.

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XPost: SCOM 2016 Now supports SQL 2012 SP3

Additional support is now available for SCOM 2016 for SQL 2012 SP3. this will more easily facilitate the in-place upgrade path from SCOM 2012 as previously you would need your environment to be using a SQL version supported by both SCOM versions  (SQL 2014 SP2)

Kevin Holman has a nice article hi-lighting the different supported versions you can find it here

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Management Pack Recap – December 2016 Wave

This is a summary of the wave of Management Packs that were released in December 2016. Information and download location in the links provided:

Windows Server MP v10.0.8.0here
WS-Management and SMASH Device Discovery MP v7.0.8707.0here
Windows Server 2016 AD, ADFS and DNS MPshere

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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