Category Archives: SCOM 2012 R2

The case of the missing override checkbox

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One of my customers contacted me regarding a rather strange situation, whenever they try to apply an override they are unable to because the checkbox is missing.

As it turns out this the solution while unusual is quite simple, the screen resolution on their server is too high. In this case, for this particular version of Operations Manager the resolution was higher than 1600×900.

Once we dropped the resolution to 1600×900 the check boxes reappeared.

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XPost SCOM 1801: Caveat when upgrading from 2012R2/2016

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Just a quick cross post from my college Robert Bird original posting here.

Be aware that when upgrading to SCOM 1801 in order to upgrade reporting successfully you need to install the SCOM console onto the SSRS instance first otherwise the upgrade will fail.

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SCOM 2016: Updated management pack for AudioCodes™ v1.0.5.65

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An updated management pack has been released for AudioCodes™ get it here.

The following AudioCodes gateways are currently supported:
Mediant 4000 E-SBC
Mediant 3000 Gateway and E-SBC
Mediant 2600 E-SBC
Mediant 2000 Media Gateway
Mediant 1000 Media Gateway
Mediant 1000B Gateway and E-SBC
Mediant 1000B MSBR
Mediant 800 MSBR
Mediant 800B Gateway and E-SBC
MediaPack Media Gateways MP-124 (FXS)
MediaPack Media Gateways MP-118 (FXS and FXO)
MediaPack Media Gateways MP-114 (FXS and FXO)
MediaPack Media Gateways MP-112 (FXS)
MediaPack 1288

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SCOM 2016: Updated SQL Management Packs v7.0.2.0

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New versions of the SQL management packs have been released get them using the links below:

SQL Server 2016 – here
SQL Server 2014 – here
SQL Server 2008/2012 – here
SQL Server Dashboards – here

New in Version 7.0.2.0

SQL Server 2008/2012/2014/2016

  • Fixed issue: Always On data source scripts fail as Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.PSSnapins.dll is not imported
  • Fixed issue: Always On monitoring scripts may fail because of “No coercion operator is defined…” error (caused by an issue in PowerShell 5.0)
  • Fixed Dashboards issue: “DW data early aggregation” rule crashes on SCOM 2016

SQL Server Dashboards

  • Fixed issue: “DW data early aggregation” rule crashes on SCOM 2016

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SCOM 2016: New management pack for Lenovo XClarity Integrator Hardware

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Lenovo has released a new management pack to integrate SCOM with XClarity it is available here.

Key features include:

  • Extensive monitoring of the health of hardware components for System x and ThinkSystem servers,  Flex chassis nodes and BladeCenter blades via BMC (out-of-band mode).
  • Extensive monitoring of the health of hardware components for System x servers, Flex chassis nodes and BladeCenter blades running Windows (in-band mode).
  • Rich monitoring of the health of Flex and BladeCenter chassis/modules via the SNMP protocol.
  • Easy determination of overall system health by the aggregation of hardware health monitors.
  • Power Monitoring of UEFI/BMC System x Servers and Blades running Windows. Offers the ability to monitor overall system power usage, and generates alerts when power consumption rises above predefined consumption thresholds. Enable Power Capping and set the maximum power consumption wattage via Operation Manage Agent task.
  • BladeCenter and Blade hardware health correlation and event propagation providing BladeCenter specific hardware health condition monitoring under the Windows health explorer view.
  • Remote power on and off of Blades Servers via the Operations Manager console.
  • Offer the ability to launch a CMM Web Console of a Flex System Chassis from the Operations Manager Console.
  • Offer the ability to view System x power data using the System x Power Data Chart.
  • Offer the ability to support SQL Server database and migrate data from the PostgreSQL to the SQL Server.
  • Offer the ability to discover and manage system BMC automatically.
  • Offer the ability to configure Unified Service from the Operations Manager Console

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SCOM 2016: Updated MPs for SQL Server v7.0.0.0

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The new management packs for SQL Server have been released get them at the links below:

SQL Server 2016

SQL Server 2014

SQL Server (2008-2012)

SQL Server Dashboards

 

New SQL Server 2008-2012 MP Features and Fixes

  • The version of the management packs was significantly increased as the SQL Server MP product family was extended with brand new management packs for SQL Server 2017+ and SQL Server 2017+ Replication. The new management packs are designed to monitor SQL Server 2017 and the upcoming versions.
  • Reimplemented Always On workflows to enable monitoring of Availability Groups hosting over 200 databases
  • Updated alert descriptions of Availability Group monitors: added cluster name and primary replica name
  • Implemented 3 alerting rules for events #5105 (error with physical file access), #833 (IO request has taken longer than 15 seconds), and #41144 (AO availability group failed); they are disabled by default
  • Added debug information to Always On monitoring scripts
  • Disabled the alerting rule for event #18456 by default
  • Fixed issue: Invalid encoding of SQL names in Always On console tasks
  • Fixed issue: Invalid encoding of SQL instance names in Always On console tasks

 New SQL Server 2014 MP Features and Fixes

  • The version of the management packs was significantly increased as the SQL Server MP product family was extended with brand new management packs for SQL Server 2017+ and SQL Server 2017+ Replication. The new management packs are designed to monitor SQL Server 2017 and the upcoming versions.
  • Reimplemented Always On workflows to enable monitoring of Availability Groups hosting over 200 databases
  • Updated alert descriptions of Availability Group monitors: added cluster name and primary replica name
  • Implemented 3 alerting rules for events #5105 (error with physical file access), #833 (IO request has taken longer than 15 seconds), and #41144 (AO availability group failed); they are disabled by default
  • Implemented “MSSQL 2014/16: HTTP Storage: Avg. Bytes/Transfer” performance rule
  • Added debug information to Always On monitoring scripts
  • Disabled the alerting rule for event #18456 by default
  • Fixed issue: Invalid encoding of SQL names in Always On console tasks
  • Fixed issue: Invalid encoding of SQL instance names in Always On console tasks

New SQL Server 2016 MP Features and Fixes

  • The version of the management packs was significantly increased as the SQL Server MP product family was extended with brand new management packs for SQL Server 2017+ and SQL Server 2017+ Replication. The new management packs are designed to monitor SQL Server 2017 and the upcoming versions.
  • Reimplemented Always On workflows to enable monitoring of Availability Groups hosting over 200 databases
  • Updated alert descriptions of Availability Group monitors: added cluster name and primary replica name
  • Implemented 3 alerting rules for events #5105 (error with physical file access), #833 (IO request has taken longer than 15 seconds), and #41144 (AO availability group failed); they are disabled by default
  • Added debug information to Always On monitoring scripts
  • Implemented “MSSQL 2014/16: HTTP Storage: Avg. Bytes/Transfer” performance rule
  • Enabled Memory-Optimized workflows for all editions of SQL Server 2016 by default, so far as all editions now support Memory-Optimized Data since SP1
  • Disabled the alerting rule for event #18456 by default
  • Optimized ProbeAction for User Resource Pool Memory workflows
  • Fixed issue: Invalid encoding of SQL names in Always On console tasks
  • Fixed issue: “XTP Configuration” monitor is in healthy state when XTP filegroup container and the transaction log are placed on different volumes of a physical disk
  • Fixed issue: Incorrect publishers’ names for SSIS EventCollection rules (SQL2016)
  • Fixed issue: GetSQL2016DBEngineWinServState.js crashes when getting neither “true” nor “false” as the second parameter (CheckStartupType)
  • Fixed issue: Invalid encoding of SQL instance names in Always On console tasks
  • Fixed issue: XTP Configuration monitor is always in Warning state for SQL Server 2016 Standard edition

SQL Server Dashboards MP

  • No changes introduced; increased the version number to 7.0.0.0 to comply with the current version of SQL Server Management Packs

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SCOM 2016: Updated MP DHCP 2012 v6.0.7307.0

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A new version of the DHCP 2012 management pack has been released and has lots of bug fixes, get version 6.0.7307.0 here

Updated in this version:

  • DHCP Failover Server Relationship Discovery was failing as the Scope ID length max limit was 4000. The Scope ID length limit has been increased to 65536.
  • Alert description for “DHCP IPv4 Runtime Service Bound to Static IP Address Monitor”,”DHCP Dependent Service Health Monitor”,”DHCP Database Integrity Monitor” have been updated, users can comprehend and troubleshoot the situation better with such information.
  • To reduce the alert noise created with multiple alerts of same type, the alert rules “DHCP Back Up Database Warning Rule”, “DHCP IPv4 Runtime DNS Registration Rule”,” DHCP IPv4 Runtime Users Group Configuration Rule” and “DHCP Database Integrity Warning Rule” are suppressed so that only the alert count increases and not generate new alerts
  • “Collect ALL DHCP Server Performance Data” rule has been fixed to ingest right data in the registry key, thus indicating the correct health state of the entity
  • “DHCP Performance Health Monitor” which was always in not-monitored state has been rectified to correctly show the health state of the entity it monitors
  • “DHCP Server 2012 R2 Super Scope Addresses Available Percentage Monitor” that was failing to change state on critical alerts, has been fixed to show the appropriate state so the users do not miss out on critical state.

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