A new management pack has been released for Windows Server 2016 Guarded Fabric get it here
Update: The guide has now been added to the catalog
The Windows Server 2016 Guarded Fabric Management Pack enables discovery and monitoring of guarded hosts and Host Guardian Service instances in your environment with System Center Operations Manager. The alerts surfaced by this management pack will help you quickly detect and remediate service availability issues with the Host Guardian Service and Hyper-V host misconfigurations that could prevent you from succesfully starting up shielded VMs. Please note that this is a preview release of the management pack and is not suitable for production deployments.
A new tool has been released to assist in creating management packs for network monitoring get it here
I know from experience that having to walk a MIB file manually in order to determine which OIDs to use can be a tedious process. Tools like this one should make the whole experience much more manageable.
Tool Details
Network Monitoring Management Pack Generator tool package includes a UI tool – SNMP_MPGenerator.exe and a command line tool – NetMonMPGenerator.exe.
SNMP_MPGenerator tool has an inbuilt MIB browser. Users can load MIB files, search through the Object Identifiers (OIDs) related to devices and components they wish to monitor.
This tool would support custom network devices in addition to already supported device type such as Switch, Router, Firewall and Load Balancer. Users can define monitors and rules targeted to the network devices.
Users can also discover and monitor discrete components of network devices. They can create monitors and rules for device components such as Processor, Memory, Fan, Temperature Sensor, Power Supply, Voltage Sensor and Custom device components.
Users can define monitors and rules for multiple devices in a single project file and generate a single Management Pack for all those devices.
NetMonMPGenerator.exe is a command line tool for users who wish to generate MP through command line. Users would need to provide an input XML to the command line tool to generate custom MP. The input XML would have all the device information and workflows (monitors and rules) defined on the device.
There is an issue with the October cumulative updates (KB3194798, KB3192392, KB3185330 & KB3185331) for all windows versions which is causing the SCOM console to crash.
The Product Group is aware of this issue and is working on a fix. Unfortunately I do not have an ETA for it. You will find an announcement on the SCOM Team blog (https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/momteam/) once the fix for this issue is availabe. All credits and thank’s to my colleague Mihai Sarbulescu for finding this issue!
New versions of the SQL Server management packs are out! They are available from the below links:
Note: Be aware that there have been some serious issues with previous versions of the SQL management packs this year. I cannot stress enough the need for testing before using these in a live environment.
SQL Server 2016: here
SQL Server 2014: here
SQL Server 2008 / 2012: here
SQL Dashboards: here
New in this version
SQL Server 2008 / 2012
Fixed issue: SQL Server 2012 Always On discoveries fail after stopping WSFC service
Fixed issue: “Set DB offline” task does not work when the database is in Availability Group
Fixed issue: user policy discovery script fails with “Invalid namespace “ROOT\Microsoft\SqlServer\ComputerManagement12″‘ error
Fixed issue: Always On console task does not work
Updated the visualization library
SQL Server 2014 / 2016
Fixed issue: “Set DB offline” task does not work when the database is in Availability Group
Fixed issue: Always On console task does not work
Updated the visualization library
Dashboards
Fixed issue: expanding “arrow” has low-contrast color when a health group is collapsed in Instance view (High-Contrast #2 color scheme)
Fixed issue: in Web console, Dashboards continuously send requests to the database
Fixed issue: not the first object gets selected in the object list after drill-down
Fixed issue: horizontal scroll position resets after refreshing the Instance view
Fixed issue: “No Data” message is displayed on some tiles after upgrading Dashboards management pack from version 6.7.2.0 to 6.7.4.0 or later version
Fixed issue: on Web console, Dashboards crash when drilling down from Datacenter view to Instance view
Restored the correct group order in SQL Server Summary dashboard views
An update has been released for the Windows Server 2012 DHCP MP version 6.0.7301.0 is available here.
What’s new
If the property scope id length of the failover server watcher class exceeded the max length, then Failover Server Watcher was not being discovered and hence could not monitor DHCP failover servers. The fix ensures that discovery is successful.
In a DHCP server with multiple scopes, if two or more scopes have same name when the alert raise for one scope it automatically raises the alert for another same scope name. The fix ensures that alerts are sent only for generated scope.
