Monthly Archives: August 2020

SCOM 2019: New version of the SQL Management Pack v7.0.24.0

3 Replies

The latest version of the SQL version agnostic mp is out you can get it here

What’s New

  • Added a new “Securables Configuration Status” monitor targeted to SQL Server databases
  • Updated the “Product Version Compliance” monitor with the most recent versions of public updates for SQL Server
  • Updated the “Securables Configuration Status” monitor targeted to the DB Engine when a SQL Server instance participates in Availability Groups
  • Removed the “Securables Configuration Status” monitor targeted to the Availability Replica as non-useful
  • Updated the “SQL Server Database Engines” discovery; the “Netbios Computer Name” property is now uppercased.
  • Added reports from version-specific management packs for SQL Server
  • Updated monitor “Job Duration” to add current job run’s duration to its alert description
  • Updated Web Console version of SQL MP Dashboards to support SCOM 2019 UR1
  • Updated alert description of monitor “Securables Configuration Status”
  • Added “CheckStartupType” property to SSIS Health Status monitor
  • Revised columns of SQL Agent and SQL Agent Jobs state views
  • Updated display strings

Issues Fixed

  • Fixed error “Unsupported path format” in workflows targeting Filegroups
  • Fixed discovery error on non-readable availability replicas
  • Fixed wrong Run As profile in SSIS Seed Discovery
  • Fixed issue that caused rule “Disable Discovery of Selected DB Engines” to fail
  • Fixed discovery issue for databases in recovering state
  • Fixed issue in monitor “Securables Configuration Status” when it went critical on Shared-Memory-only SQL Servers
  • Fixed the Alerting Rules data source to avoid an alert storm after exiting maintenance mode
  • Fixed the SQL Log Reader data source to support changing of the SQL Authentication method
  • Fixed the Performance Reader data source to support changing of the SQL Authentication method

Loading

Azure Monitor Agent (AMA) goes preview

1 Reply

The new Azure Monitor Agent, is available for preview in the Azure Portal, lets have a look at how to configure data collection for this new experience.

If the Azure Monitor blade there are a couple of changes, we’re interested in the new option called Data Collection Rules this is how we’ll tell out new agent what data to collect.

Clicking new we can see there’s a few tabs to configure, under Basics, we need to name our rule, choose a subscription and resource group.

Next we need to choose the Virtual Machines we can to add to the rule, this will also deploy the agent to the VM if necessary. Note that due to the agent being in preview that it is not available in all regions currently.

Below the selected machines are all set and ready to go.

Finally we need to configure what this rule is collecting, you can choose logs or metrics and you can be more granular then before when it comes to log collection with a custom filter.

You can also have log and metrics collections in the same rule.

Once everything is configured simply click create, the agent will be deployed if necessary and the collection will start.

Easy as pie, enjoy the new monitoring experience!

Loading

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

1 Reply

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

Loading

SCOM 2019: Update Rollup 2 Released!

Leave a reply

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.

Loading