Category: Managament Packs

Exchange Management Pack Version 14.03.0038.004 is available for download

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Third time’s the charm – 14.03.0038.004

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More over a month ago Microsoft released version 14.3.38.2 of Exchange 2010 MP but it was pulled by Exchange team soon after that because it was causing mailboxes to get quarantined. So this new version just fixes that issue but as the older version is not available no more here are the changes included in it:

  • Resolved ObjectNotFoundExceptions in correlation engine   The SP1 version of the Correlation Engine could encounter ObjectNotFoundExceptions on a regular basis. The number of exceptions of this type is significantly reduced in this update.
  • Reduced load on RMS/MS   A number of improvements were made to reduce the load of the Management Pack on the RMS/MS. The following specific changes were made:

    o Reduced the number of read operations the Correlation Engine makes to the SDK to get entity and monitor states

    o Improved cache handling in Correlation Engine when Management Pack updates are applied

    o Increased correlation interval time from 1.5 minutes to 5 minutes

  • Reduced load due to discovery  The discovery interval was increased from 4 hours to 24 hours and improved handling of Domain Controller objects to decrease churn
  • Improved Database Copy Health monitoring  Replaced KHI: Database dismounted or service degraded with One Healthy Copy monitor to decrease load on RMS
  • Improved Performance monitoring  Non reporting Perf Instances are now enabled by default and some write operations were removed to decrease unnecessary writes to the database
  • Support for Exchange 2010 SP2
    You can download Exchange 2010 MP from this

link.

Tuning Dell Management Pack for SCOM

Dell Management Pack for SCOM provides a lot of features but if you do not use all these features you can cut some of them. In general you can make this MP lighter. All this explained in article “Making DELL management packs lighter for your management servers” by Daniele Grandini.

Extended Windows Server 2008 MP for Operations Manager

Matt Goedtel wrote a management pack that extends the functionality of the original Windows OS management pack. The MP even has a documentation attached. Find more information and download location here.

SCOM 2007 R2 will not support monitoring of Windows Server 2012

This week Microsoft posted supported scenarios for SCOM 2007 R2 / 2012 / SP1 with Windows Server 2012. The main surprise to me is that SCOM 2007 R2 will not be able to monitor Windows Server 2012. There are lot of benefits of upgrading from 2007 R2 to 2012 but not all companies can do that at this moment because of a lot of dependencies and Microsoft is not making this easier with this announcement. When such decision is announced I will definitely will want to know what is the reason behind it. There should be very good reason for this because SCOM 2007 R2 mainstream supports end in 2014 which means there are at least 2 years left for supporting. I am still hoping that Microsoft will change their mind and support for monitoring Windows Server 2012 via SCOM 2007 R2 will be provided.

The full announcement is here. 

Microsoft Office Web Apps Server Management Pack Guide for System Center Operations Manager

Microsoft released a guide that can help you in configuring the monitoring for Offfice Web Apps Server Management Pack in System Center Operations Manager. The document is provide in two formats – pdf and docx and can be downloaded from here.