Cisco release a revised version of their UCS management pack late last year version 3.1.1 is available for download here.
New in this version:
A new management pack has been released for Data Protection Manager 2012 R2. It includes Reporting, Discovery and Monitoring and is availible for download here. It is listed as version 4.2.1276.0.
The discovery and library management packs enable you to view, monitor and manage DPM servers, alerts, notifications and some other monitoring information.
The reporting management pack enables and supports collecting reporting data from all DPM servers deployed on your network. For example, if your domain deployment contains 250 DPM servers, each containing 10 data sources configured into a separate Protection Group (PG), this management pack will enable SCOM to monitor and report data on all 100 x 10 = 1000 data sources.
Prerequisites
The following requirements must be met to run the discovery, library and reporting management packs:
Set-DPMProtectionGroupSLA.
If SLAs are not set on the DPM Servers, you will not get SLA Trends in the Reports.
Dell released a new version of their Management Pack for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager mid December 2014. There have unfortunatly been performance issues with some Dell MPs in the past so as always read the guide carefully and test, test, test before live deployment.
It is available for download on the Dell support website here.
Important: Upgrade from Dell Server Management Pack Suite version 5.1 and earlier versions to version 6.0 are not supported.
Changes in this version:
1. Support for 13th Generation of Dell PowerEdge Servers
2. Support for iDRAC8
3. Support for Precision Rack 7910 Workstations
4. Performance Monitoring and Views for CPU, IO, CUPS & Memory (Agent-free)
5. Inventory and health monitoring for License, Host NIC and vFlash (Agent-free)
6. Inventory and health monitoring for PCIe SSD (Agent-free)
7. Detailed sensor monitoring (Agent-based)
Another version of the Office 365 MP has been released and is available for download here.
Changes in this version:
Fixed a bug that caused blank values to be shown in the “Display Name” column of the Subscription Health box on the Office365 Monitoring Dashboard. This happens only in SCOM environments upgraded from 2007 to 2012.
This is a summary of the wave of Management Packs that were released in January 2015. Information and download location in the links provided:
Windows Server OS MP update 6.0.7296.0 – here (Actually a February release)
Windows Server OS MP update 6.0.7294.0 – here – Replaced by 6.0.7296.0
SharePoint 2010 Products MP version 14.0.7135.5000 – here
Office 365 MP v7.0.5112.0 – here
SCSM MP v7.5.3079.183 – here
A new version of the management pack for System Center Service Manager has been released v7.5.3079.183 is availbile for download here.
The guide doesn’t provide much information on the changes other then “Updated platform support ton include 2012 SP1 and 2012 R2” Some more testing should reveal a more complete list of changes.
It looks like MS has released a fixed version of the Windows Server OS MP so the duplicate drive discovery issue should be resolved now. This highlights the importance of testing management packs before releasing them into your live environments.
This version is 6.0.7296.0 and is available for download here
Changes in this version
A new version of the Office 365 MP has been released it is version 7.0.5112.0 and is available for download here.
New in this version:
An updated version of the SharePoint 2010 Products MP has been released this bring us to version 14.0.7135.5000 is it available for download here.
This release is similar to the recent update to the Exchange 2010 MP in that allowance has been made for different versions of Poweshell being installed side by side.
Changes in this update
Changed design to use Powershell 2.0 explicitly when 2.0 and higher versions are installed side by side
Microsoft is off to an early start this year there is already a new release of the Windows Server Operating System MP, bringing the version to 6.0.7294.0 it is available for download here. **Microsoft has pulled this version from the catalog and reverted to version 6.0.7292.0 a full explanation of the issue has been blogged by Kevin Holman here**
Warning – There is currently a bug in this version of the MP that causes logical disks to be discovered more than once and this causes a flood of performance data to hammer your DB. This issue was discovered by Daniele Grandini.
This release is just a minor update with some bug fixes.
Changes in this version