Tag Archives: #Management Pack

Management Pack Recap – December 2015 Wave

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This is a summary of the wave of Management Packs that were released in December 2015. Information and download location in the links provided:

Dynamics CRM MP 2015 v7.0.0.0 – here
Windows Server DNS MP v10.0.0.0 – here
Dynamics CRM 2015 v7.0.0.1 – here
Dynamics CRM 2016 v8.0.0.0 – 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.

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SCOM: Updated Windows Server DNS MP v10.0.0.0

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A new version of the Windows Server DNS MP has been released it is available for download here.

New in this version:

  • Generic presentation management pack Integration (Management pack with generic views and groups).
  • Generic Management Pack Integration: introduced a common folder structure, which will be used by future releases of Windows Server DNS monitoring packs. This management pack enables version-independent generic views and groups, displaying the information about all versions of Windows Server DNS.

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Management Pack Recap – November 2015 Wave

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This is a summary of the wave of Management Packs that were released in November 2015. Information and download location in the links provided:

OpsLogix Swift Management Pack V2.5.1.57 – here
Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2015 Management Pack v14.0.24622.0 – here
SQL Server v 6.6.3.0 – here
SQL Server v 6.6.4.0 – here
Windows Server 2012 DHCP v6.0.7299.0 – here
Opslogix VMWare ManagementPack V1.3.1.1 – here
Management Pack for Microsoft Azure (Technical Preview) v 1.3.10.0 – 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.

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SCOM: Management Pack for Microsoft Azure (Technical Preview)

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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

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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 2016: TP4 now with Management Pack Recommendations and Updates!

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There is a new feature that has been released with Technical Preview 4 of System Center Operations Manager 2016, it is called Management Pack Recommendations and Updates.

This features scans your environment and makes recommendations for management packs which are not currently installed but could be used to provide additional monitoring to components that are not yet monitored.

The feature will also show available updates for currently installed management packs.

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All in all this is a nice addition and it’s great to see more functionality coming to Operations Manager.

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