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Coretech WMI and PowerShell Browser

This free tool will can help in troubleshooting WMI issues which can happen to SCCM or SCOM agents. You can find more about the tool and download it from here.

System Center Orchestrator 2012 PowerShell Web Service Module

This community PowerShell module created by MVP Ryan Andorfer will give you the ability to interact with Orchestrator Web Service trough PowerShell. Here is full description from the author:

A set of PowerShell cmdlets for interacting with the System Center 2012 Orchestrator web service, complete with help documentation. Supports invoking runbooks with parameters and the parameters can have html characters! This PowerShell Library contains the following functions

Name
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Get-SCOEvents
Start-SCORunbook
Stop-SCOJob
Get-SCOMonitorRunbook
Get-SCORunbookServer
Get-SCOSubfolders
New-SCOWebserverURL
Get-SCOJob
Get-SCORunbook

 

You can download the PowerShell module from TechNet Gallery.

Updated: Microsoft System Center 2012 Service Pack 1 Configuration Manager – Clients for Additional Operating Systems

The SCCM 2012 SP1 clients for the following operating systems are updated:

  • Mac OS X – 10.6, 10.7, 10.8
  • AIX – 7.1, 5.3
  • HP-UX – 11v2, 11v3
  • Linux – RHEL Version 6, 5, 4; SLES Version 11, 10, 9;CentOS Version 6, 5;Debian Version 6, 5;Ubuntu Version 12.4 LTS, 10.4 LTS;Oracle Linux 6, 5
  • Solaris – 11, 10, 9

The following changes are introduced:

  • Client Build Version 1.0.0.4648
  • Added support for the following operating systems – AIX, HP-UX, Solaris 11, CentOS, Debian, Oracle Linux and Ubuntu.
  • Uses Open Management Infrastructure CIM server (OMI Version 1.0.6.5)
  • Implemented a Universal Agent model that supports different Linux distributions.
  • Fixed miscellaneous bugs

You can download them all from here.

Version 2.3 of My Script to Download All SCOM Management Packs with PowerShell

Script is update with some small changes all contributed by Anthony Bailey:

  • Improvements on getting the confirmation link for each MP.
  • The script now also grabs the date the MP was added to Microsoft’s catalog and adds this to the logs/screen output 
  • Any duplicate download links are removed before downloading as some download pages have duplicate files in the html 
  • Improvements on check if MP is already downloaded 

New Community MP: SQL File Disk Performance Management Pack for SCOM

This community MP is written by  Bob Cornelissen, David Scheltens, and Pavel Dzemyantsau.

Thank you guys.

In short what this MP offers:

Starting SQL 2005 SQL DBA’s have the possibility to use Dynamic Management Views and Functions to monitor the health of a server instance, diagnose problems, and tune performance. This management pack is specifically geared towards the sys.dm_io_virtual_file_stats view, which returns I/O statistics for data and log files. The view is used by DBA’s to view current counter values for each database file (data or log). It is a current point in time and these values are cumulative values since the last restart of the server. This management pack collects these values for use in viewing and reporting. There are no health state changes or alerts connected to these values. There are short time performance views and two reports with double Y axis to display longer term data. The long term data is translated from cumulative data into amongst others IOPS for each point in time.

More information about the MP and download you can find at TechNet Gallery.

Once again thanks to the creators for sharing this MP.