Category Archives: SCOM 2012

XPost: How to discover a Windows Computer as a Network Device in SCOM 2012

Kevin Holman has written a post on how to  to discover a Windows Computer as a Network Device in SCOM 2012.

The design choice to not allow snmp discovers of windows devices was questioned heavily when it was announced and caused vendor management packs such as  Netbackup not to work.

This is a welcome discovery you can read the full article here. The below is for my record.

 

On the management server which will run the network discovery rules – browse to the following directory:
\Program Files\Microsoft System Center 2012 R2\Operations Manager\Server\NetworkMonitoring\rules\discovery

There is a file present in this directory named ic-post-processor.asl
Make a backup copy of this file, I like to name it ic-post-processor.bak, and place this backup copy in the same directly.  Now, edit this file, and change the following lines:

ISWINDOWSHOST(systemObj) do {
if (systemObj->Type == “HOST” && systemObj->Vendor == “MICROSOFT”) {
return TRUE ;
}
if (SEARCHSTRING(systemObj->Description, “Windows”)) {
return TRUE ;
}

systemOIDCheck = “.1.3.6.1.4.1.311.1.1.3.1” ;
if (substring(systemObj->SystemObjectID, 0, sizeof(systemOIDCheck)) == systemOIDCheck) {
return TRUE ;
}
systemOIDCheck = “.1.3.6.1.4.1.99.1.1.3.11” ;
if (substring(systemObj->SystemObjectID, 0, sizeof(systemOIDCheck)) == systemOIDCheck) {
return TRUE ;
}
return FALSE ;
}

to:
ISWINDOWSHOST(systemObj) do {
    if (systemObj->Type == “HOST” && systemObj->Vendor == “MICROSOFT”) {
        return FALSE ;
}
if (SEARCHSTRING(systemObj->Description, “Windows”)) {
return FALSE ;
}
systemOIDCheck = “.1.3.6.1.4.1.311.1.1.3.1” ;
if (substring(systemObj->SystemObjectID, 0, sizeof(systemOIDCheck)) == systemOIDCheck) {
return FALSE ;
}
systemOIDCheck = “.1.3.6.1.4.1.99.1.1.3.11” ;
if (substring(systemObj->SystemObjectID, 0, sizeof(systemOIDCheck)) == systemOIDCheck) {
return FALSE ;
}
return FALSE ;
}

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SCOM: Management Pack for Microsoft Azure (Technical Preview)

Microsoft released a technical preview of a management pack for Microsoft Azure:

The Management Pack for Microsoft Azure enables you to monitor the availability and performance of Azure resources that are running on Microsoft Azure. The management pack runs on a specified server pool, and then uses Microsoft Azure REST APIs to remotely discover and collect performance information about the specified Microsoft Azure resources.

Version 1.3.10.0 is available for download here

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SCOM: Opslogix VMWare ManagementPack V1.3.1.1 released

Opslogix released a new major update for their VMWare management pack it is available through their customer portal.

New in this version:

  • Cookdown for all the MP modules. This will result in less overhead of resources CPU/memory needed for the monitoring.
  • VMWare API/SDK session usage is tuned to a minimum.
  • Added more than 50 new ESX Host and Virtual Machine performance counter collections.
  • Added several new ESX Host , Virtual Machine and Datacenter health state monitors.
  • Direct attached ESX hosts monitoring. Now you can monitor ESX hosts without a VCenter in place.
  • Hardware monitoring. Discovers and checks the state of CPU, Fan, Power supply, Memory, Battery, Storage ect… of your ESX hosts.
  • Monitoring of VCenter alert messages. We have built in SCOM monitors that will reflect the state of the predefined alerts in VCenter out of the box.

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SCOM: Updated management pack Windows Server 2012 DHCP v6.0.7299.0

A new version of the Windows Server 2012 DCHP MP has been released version 6.0.7299.0 is available for download here.

Fixed in this version:

  • In a DHCP server with multiple scopes, if the first scope exceeds the threshold for minimum available addresses, alerts are sent for all scopes on the DHCP server even for the ones that don’t violate the threshold. The fix ensures that alerts are sent only for the scope exceeding the threshold.

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SCOM: Updated SQL MP 6.6.4.0

Microsoft released another update for the SQL management packs version 6.6.4.0 can be downloaded from the below links:

SQL Server 2014 – here
SQL Server 2005/2008/2012 – here
SQL Server Replication 2014 – here
SQL Server Replication 2012 – here
SQL Server Replication  2008 – here

This version refers to additional updates to the visualization library:

  • Fixed an installation issue on SQL Server 2008
  • Fixed permission grants for Alert aggregation table

With the previous issues with these management packs I strongly recommend testing  thoroughly before importing them into production and also having a good rollback plan in the case of an issue.

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SCOM: Updated MPs for SQL Server v 6.6.3.0

Microsoft released updates for the SQL Server management packs:

It is strongly recommended to test thoroughly before importing into live due to the sever issues some people have experienced with previous versions of 6.6.x.

SQL Server 2003/2008/2012 – here
SQL Server 2014 – here
S
QL Server 2008 Replication – here
S
QL Server 2014 Replication – here
SQL Server 2012 Replication – here

This update:

  • Updated the visualization library
  • Implemented batching to all data aggregation mechanisms to ensure low temp database space and log space usage
  • Implemented a control bit to divide group from non-group references to save space in aggregated data storage.
  • Fixed the error message in SQL DB discovery script

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SCOM: Update OpsLogix Swift Management Pack V2.5.1.57

OpsLogix has announced an update to their Swift Management Pack V2.5.1.57 it is available in their customer download area

Changes in this version:

  • System Center Operations Manager 2012 contains a bug that prevents alert subscriptions form filtering variable text fields. This release of the Swift management pack offers a workaround by adding the description to “Custom Field1″ of the alert so that it can be filtered in the alert subscriptions.

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SCOM: Updated SharePoint 2010 Products Management Pack 14.0.7137.5000

The MP for SharePoint 2010 Products  14.0.7137.5000 was updated to fix a bug in the service discovery it is available for download here

This update contains a bug fix:

  • SharePoint 2010 MP had a PS1 file with syntax error causing the shared service discovery to fail. With this fix the PS1 file syntax error is resolved and the discoveries will be made.

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