Category: Managament Packs

DELL Management Pack for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager

Dell Management Pack 5.0.1, A00 now supports SCOM 2012:

The Dell Server Management Pack Suite enables System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) 2007 R2, System Center 2012 Operations Manager, and System Center Essentials (SCE) 2010 to Discover, Monitor and accurately depict the status of Dell PowerEdge/PowerVault Servers, Dell Remote Access Controllers (DRAC) and Chassis Management Controllers (CMC) on a defined network segment. The management packs provide Dell-specific views that you can use to observe and drill down the system status in a network.

 

 

Download from here.

Monitoring Windows Server 2012 with SCOM 2007 R2 is Supported with Some Exceptions

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Update

Here is the WS2012 support matrix for OM2007 R2/SC2012 taken directly from SCOM Team blog:

Management Group Version

Management Server or Gateway Version

OpsMgr Agent Version

Agent OS Version

Supported Configuration?

2007 R2

2007 R2

2007 R2

Windows Server 2012

No

2007 R2

2007 R2

2012 RTM

Windows Server 2012

Yes

2007 R2

2007 R2

2012 SP1

Windows Server 2012

Yes

2012 RTM

2012 RTM

2012 RTM

Windows Server 2012

Yes

2012 SP1

2012 SP1

2012 SP1

Windows Server 2012

Yes
  • To use the SC2012 agent you have to be licensed for SC2012.
  • The SC2012 RTM agent requires .NET3.5 be installed on WS2012. (SC2012 SP1 agent does not have this requirement)

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Microsoft release an clarification on Windows Server 2012 monitoring with SCOM 2007 R2. What Microsoft is saying in order to monitor Windows Server 2012 you have to install SCOM 2012 agent on such servers and as these agents can report back to SCOM 2007 R2 server we can actually monitor Server 2012 with such scenario. The only thing that is left to be clarified is if the Windows Server 2012 Management packs will be supported in SCOM 2007 R2 server. Full announcement is here.

Update:

Microsoft released 3 new management packs and one updated one:

  • System Center Monitoring Pack for Windows Server Operating System – Supported on SCOM 2007 R2 and SCOM 2012
  • System Center 2012 Monitoring Pack for Microsoft Windows Server AD CS 2012 – Supported only on SCOM 2012
  • System Center 2012 Monitoring Pack for Microsoft Windows Server 2012 AD RMS – Supported only on SCOM 2012
  • System Center 2012 Monitoring Pack for Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Internet Information Service 8 – Supported only on SCOM 2012

    • So SCOM 2007 R2 will be able to monitor Windows Server 2012 if you implement certain scenario with the exception of some roles.

    Update: Kevin Holman also confirms that SCOM 2007 R2 can monitor Windows Server 2012 in specific scenario. Read here.

    Performance monitors for Cluster Disks in latest Windows OS MP

    As Kevin describes in his article about the latest Window OS MP Cluster disks are missing performances rules. So Kevin decided to help the community and showed us how we can make an MP to create these rules. Find the article here.

    Thank you Kevin for helping the community.

    System Center Monitoring Pack for System Center 2012 SP1 Beta – Configuration Manager

    if you have implemented System Center 2012 SP1 Beta in your lab environment now you can monitor SCCM 2012 SP1 beta with SCOM. Just download the beta MP from here.

    System Center 2012 Monitoring Pack for SharePoint 2010

    What I should mention first about this new MP is that it is not standalone functional MP. It is actually supplemental MP for Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Products Management Pack for System Center Operations Manager 2007. So you have to import the old MP for SharePoint first and than import the new one. What actually the new MP does is to add task that will configure SharePoint 2010 monitoring on SCOM 2012. You can all steps in the 4 pages manual that comes with the MP. The manual and the management pack can be found here.