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Management Pack Recap – August 2017 Wave

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This is a summary of the wave of Management Packs that were released in August 2017. Information and download location in the links provided:

OMS Service Map / SCOM Integration MP (Public Preview) – here
Comtrade MP for Nutanix – here
HPE OneView for Microsoft System Center 8.3 and related MPs – here
Amazon Web services AWS MP v2.6.0.2 – 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 2016: Updated management pack for Amazon Web services AWS v2.6.0.2

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A new version for the Amazon Web Services MP get version 2.6.0.2 here

New in this version:

  • Proxy support. The management pack can be configured to make all AWS calls to a proxy server.
  • Updated management pack objects to contain the region name.
  • Renamed ELB, Instance, Volume performance counter units.

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SCOM 2016: Comtrade MP for Nutanix

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Comtrade has released a new management pack for monitoring Nutanix solutions.

Comtrade has in the past released high quality management packs for monitoring systems such Citrix XEN amongst others. The Nutanix management pack offers the below features:

 

 

 

 

 

 

As well as:

  • Automatically detect VMs running business-critical workloads
  • Detect resource bottlenecks before they start affecting end-users
  • Correlate application’s performance with performance of the rest of the application-delivery infrastructure
  • Ensure application availability by maintaining successful protection domain replication
  • Forecast performance trends and properly size Nutanix so you don’t run out of resources
  • Use Nutanix-Citrix SuperPack to quickly identify, eliminate and fix issues that would impact Citrix end-users

 

For a trial or more information go here

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OMS / SCOM: Service Map integration with SCOM now in public preview

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Hot off the press integration between OMS Service Map and SCOM Distributed applications is now in public preview.

This is a feature that I for one have been looking forward to for quite some time and I hope this is only a glimpse into the possibilities of having OMS and SCOM leverage off each other in the future.

Documentation is available here

Get the MP here

Screenshots courtesy of the MS OMS Blog

OMS Service Map

Integrated SCOM Distributed Application

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Management Pack Recap – July 2017 Wave

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This is a summary of the wave of Management Packs that were released in July 2017. Information and download location in the links provided:

Microsoft Azure Stack MP v1.0.1.0 – here
SQL Server Management Packs v6.7.31.0 – 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 2016: Updated SQL Server Management Packs v6.7.31.0

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New versions of the SQL management packs were released a short while ago links for all of the versions 6.7.31.0 MPs can be found below:

SQL Server

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

SQL Server Dashboards

SQL Server Dashboards – here

SQL Server Replication

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

SQL Server Analysis Services

SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services – here
SQL Server 2012 Analysis Services – here
SQL Server 2014 Analysis Services – here
SQL Server 2016 Analysis Services – here

SQL Server Reporting Services (Native Mode)

SQL Server 2008 Replication(Native Mode) – here
SQL Server 2012 Replication(Native Mode) – here
SQL Server 2014 Replication(Native Mode) – here
SQL Server 2014 Replication(Native Mode) – here

 

New in this version:

Important Notes About This Release

  • Please note that we implemented a new alerting rule for SQL Server event #18456 “Login failed” in this release. However, this rule may become rather noisy due to the fact that the target events appear quite frequently in some environments. The rule is enabled by default; thus, if it creates too many alerts in your environment, consider disabling it via the override. The ideal would be to resolve the underlying issues causing the alert but we understand this is not always a priority.
  • We are introducing a new monitor in this release (see the first bullet below) based on customer feedback. You have now a better solution for monitoring backups of AG databases.

SQL Server 2008-2016

  • Added new “Availability Database Backup Status” monitor in Availability Group to check the existence and age of the availability database backups (this monitor is disabled by default)
  • “Database Backup Status” monitor has been changed to return only “Healthy” state for the databases that are Always On replicas, since availability database backups are now watched by the dedicated monitor
  • Improved performance of DB Space monitoring workflows
  • Added new “Login failed” alerting rule for SQL Server event #18456
  • Fixed issue: “Active Alerts” view does not show all alerts
  • Fixed issue: DB space monitoring scripts fail with “Cannot connect to database” error.
  • Fixed issue: PowerShell scripts fail with “Cannot process argument because the value of argument ‘obj’ is null” error
  • Fixed issue: Alert description of “Disk Ready Latency” and “Disk Write Latency” monitors displays the sample count instead of the performance value that was measured
  • Fixed issue: Different file location info from “sys.master_files” and “sysfiles” causes error when Availability Group secondary database files are in different path
  • Fixed issue: “DB Transaction Log Free Space Total” rules return wrong data
  • Introduced minor updates to the display strings
  • Deprecated “Garbage Collection” monitor and the appropriate performance rule
  • Resource Pool Discovery is disabled by default for pools not containing databases with Memory-Optimized Tables
  • “XTP Configuration” monitor now supports different file path types (not only those starting with C:, D:, etc.)
  • Fixed issue: “Resource Pool State” view shows incorrect set of objects
  • Fixed issue: Invalid group discovery in SQL Server 2016 Always On
  • Updated the visualization library

SQL Server Dashboards

  • Increased the version number to comply with the current version of SQL Server MPs

SQL Server 2008-2016 Replication

  • Added Distributor name caching to Subscription discovery
  • Restricted the length of some string class properties
  • Improved the internal structure of SQL scripts storage
  • Fixed variable types in SQL scripts
  • Fixed connectivity issues in SmartConnect module
  • Introduced minor updates to the display strings
  • Updated the visualization library

SQL Server 2008-2016 Reporting Services

  • Reimplemented Instance seed discovery: replaced the managed module with a PowerShell script
  • Reimplemented Deployment seed discovery: added a retry policy and improved error handling
  • Updated the visualization library

SQL Server 2008-2016 Analysis Services

  • Restricted length of some string class properties
  • Updated the visualization library

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SCOM 2016: Updated MP for Microsoft Azure Stack v1.0.1.0

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An updated management pack has been released for Microsoft Azure Stack, version 1.0.1.0 is available here.

Azure Stack is an extension of Azure, bringing the agility and fast-paced innovation of cloud computing to on-premises environments. Only Azure Stack lets you deliver Azure services from your organization’s datacenter, while balancing the right amount of flexibility and control—for truly-consistent hybrid cloud deployments.

New in this version:

  • Implemented “Edit Deployment” wizard.
  • Improved the authentication by means of Azure Active Directory (UPN authentication) and Active Directory Federation Services (UPN and AD FS SPN authentication).
  • Implemented UI improvements in “Add Deployment” wizard.
  • Implemented the Capacity Dashboard.
  • Implemented Auto Maintenance Mode Monitoring Rule that checks if any updates are run on Azure Stack regions and switches regions that are being updated to maintenance mode in Operations Manager. Implemented Turn Off Auto Maintenance Mode and Turn On Auto Maintenance Mode tasks to manually disable and enable the Auto Maintenance Mode.
  • Implemented improvements to reflect changes in the API.
  • Updated the display strings.
  • Added a workaround to support Alert names and descriptions to be displayed in the Operations Manager Reports as a plain text.

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