Those nice people over at NiCE have released a new management pack for IBM PowerHA (HACMP). More information and pricing is available here.
The MP offers the following features:
• Full overview of PowerHA landscape • Detailed Resource Group Monitoring • Cluster Status Monitoring • Native SCOM integration means: no additional services to be installed, no ports to be opened, re-use of existing AIX agent • Using standard SCOM views and MP architecture • Built on reliable NiCE components
There has been a minor update to the Exchange 2013 management pack version 15.0.666.20 can be download here.
Fixes in this version
Fixed a bug preventing Exchange 2013 Mailbox Properties collection when the contents of Email Addresses field exceed the total length of more than 1024 characters.
Exception:
‘InvalidOperationException’: The given value of type String from the data source cannot be converted to type nvarchar of the specified target column.
Fixed a bug: alerts generated by the previous version of the Management Pack for Exchange Server 2013 have unreadable name. After upgrading of the Management Pack to version 15.0.620.19, alerts generated before the upgrade had the following name: {2}
This is a summary of the wave of Management Packs that were released in April 2016. Information and download location in the links provided:
Skype for Business Server 2015 MP v9319.247 – here Lync Server 2013 MP v8308.951 – here Lync Server 2010 MP v7577.723 – here Windows Server Storage Spaces 2012 R2 MP v1.1.270.0 – here Microsoft Azure MP (Technical Preview) v1.3.18.0 – 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
The newly released Skype for Business Server 2015 management pack version 9319.247 is available for download here.
This MP guide is not included in the download but is available on a separate technet page.
New in this version:
Automatic discovery for Client Sign-In Client applications that sign-in to Skype for Business Server 2015 often automatically discover the server to sign-in to. Synthetic transactions now support verification that automatic discovery is configured correctly.
Customized synthetic transaction run intervals To simplify the set up process of Watcher Nodes, synthetic transactions can share user accounts. This slows down the frequency at which the tests are run as the tests are serialized to avoid conflicts. By default, synthetic transactions run every 15 minutes to ensure all tests have time to run. Administrators who choose to use more users or fewer tests per user may now reduce the run interval, as well.
Video Interop Services synthetic transaction Customers who are migrating to Skype for Business Server 2015 from other vendor solutions often desire to continue using the video teleconferencing devices (VTCs) from these other vendors. Video Interop Server is a new Skype for Business Server 2015 server role that enables customers to continue to use Cisco VTCs in their conference rooms by connecting to Cisco CUCM via a video SIP trunk. This feature also adds a synthetic transaction to help verify that the Video Interop Server is up and can handle incoming connections over a video SIP trunk.
Application Sharing Conferencing synthetic transaction End-to-end scenario validation for Application Sharing Conferences is now supported.
Update:
As noted from Marnix wolfs blog There is an issue with the sealing of this MP, the following error occurs when importing.
“‘…This management pack cannot be imported.: Cannot load the management pack from the specified sealed assembly file: C:\Program Files\Skype for Business Server 2015\Management Packs\Management Packs\Microsoft.LS.2015.Monitoring.ActiveMonitoring.mp. This assembly is not fully signed. Cannot verify the strong name signature of the file: C:\Program Files\Skype for Business Server 2015\Management Packs\Management Packs\Microsoft.LS.2015.Monitoring.ActiveMonitoring.mp…’”
This is a summary of the wave of Management Packs that were released in March 2016. Information and download location in the links provided:
SQL Management Packs v6.6.7.6 – here OpsLogix VMware MP V1.3.2.10 – here Windows Server Technical Preview MP v10.0.0– here SQL Server MP Community Technical Preview 1 – here SCCM MP v5.00.8239.1008 – 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
An updated SCCM MP has been released and is available here.
The guide refers to itself as being an RTM release and doesn’t include any change log so testing will be required. There is however an extensive appendix which includes a list of rules/monitors for every SCCM component.
