Category: Managament Packs

Virtual Machine Manager Dashboards from the OpsMgr Unleashed team

The authors of System Center Operations Manager 2012 Unleashed book are offering free for download a dashboard for Virtual Machine Manager. The management pack offers dashboards as:

  • VMM Guest Health
  • VMM Guest Resources
  • VMM Host Performance
  • VMM Hosts and Guests
  • VMM Performance
  • VMM Server Service Level Objective
  • VMM Summary Dashboard

Screenshots from the MP can bee found here and the MP itself can be downloaded from here.

System Center Monitoring Pack for SQL Server Base Appliance version 1.0.5.0 now available

A new version of SQL Server Base appliance management pack is available for download. Changes in the new version are:

  • Remote discovery is supported
  • New state view Clusters
  • Appliance clusters discovery supported
  • Update display strings
  • Manufacturer and Model properties discovered for Appliance
  • Script errors handling fixed

Documentation on the MP and the MP itself can be downloaded from here.

New version of System Center Monitoring Pack for Microsoft Data Warehouse Appliance V2

The System Center Monitoring Pack for Microsoft Data Warehouse (MDW) Appliance V2 provides capabilities to discover, monitor, and manage your SQL Server MDW appliances.

The latest version can be downloaded from here.

HP Insight Control for Microsoft System Center 7.1

Insight Control for Microsoft System Center is software that integrates HP hardware and products with System Center components. Here are the new features in this release:

  • ProLiant next-generation (Gen8) servers supported:  BL420c, BL465c, DL380e, DL360e, ML350e
  • Database support for Microsoft SQL Server 2012
  • Unattended backup support
  • HP Systems Insight Manager 7.1:
    • Federated CMS advanced search
    • Two-factor authentication
    • Support for nested groups
    • Suspend all monitoring/discovery of VMs on VM host by host
  • HP Insight Control 7.1:
    • Support for the latest OS releases and Hypervisor updates
      • RHEL 5.8, RHEL 6.2
      • SLES11 SP2
      • Xen on RHEL 5.8, SLES11 SP2
      • KVM on SLES11 SP2
      • ESXi 5.0 U1
    • Browser support:  Internet Explorer 9 (full support), Firefox 9, Firefox 10
  • HP Insight Control for Microsoft System Center 7.1:
    • Support for the following new ProLiant servers:  BL420c, BL465c, DL380e, DL385p, ML350e, DL160
    • Support for installation of HP SCVMM 2012 Integration Kit on clustered SCVMM 2012 management servers

    Note: Support for SCCM 2012 is no present and will be added in later release.

    • More information for the software is here and download link is here.

    PKI Certificate Verification MP – Version 1.0.1.20 now available for download

    This management pack come from the community. Authors of the pack are Raphael Burri, Pete Zerger and Jaime Correia. Basically the MP monitors if certificate will expire in your environment. Changes in this version:

    • Corrected a discovery bug that would hit when a server’s locale was non-US and CA certificates were found in the store.
    • Fixed some spelling issues in display strings
    • Verified OpsMgr 2012 compatibility

    Read more about this MP and download it here.

    Note: Remember this is community MP and Microsoft doesn’t provide support for this MP.