Category: Managament Packs

New Version of Exchange Server 2010 Monitoring Management Pack for SCOM

There is a new version 14.02.0247.005 of Exchange 2010 MP. This MP is actually Service Pack 2 Update and includes many fixes intended to increase the scalability and address customer reported issues:

  • 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

If you want to take advantage of these improvement download the MP from here and implement it.

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Free “Enterprise Virtual Machine Discovery Management Pack for Operations Manager 2007 R2 and 2012 (SCOM)” by Infront

Infront Consulting is providing free MP to the community. This MP is very useful if you have virtualization infrastructure with Hyper-V, VmWare or Citrix XenServer. Read the full capabilities of the MP and find download link on this article.

Detailed description of the new Base OS MP 6.0.6972.0 by Kevin Holman

As with any new Windows OS MP for SCOM Kevin is providing us with detailed description what has been changed. No further explanation is need just read the article.

Veeam Extended Generic Report Library

Veeam is offering for free extended reports of the out of the box generic reports offered in SCOM. These reports can be installed on 2007 R2 and 2012 versions of SCOM. Here it is what reports are offered:

  • Veeam Alert Statistics Report – Analyze alert statistics in two modes – per rule/monitor and per object
  • Veeam Generic Performance Top (Bottom) N Report – Show infrastructure objects, performance counters, or both, for a specific rule
  • Veeam Performance Report – Visualize performance counter values on one or more charts and tables
  • Veeam Performance Details Report – Analyze trends with drill down to performance details

You can download them from here.

All credits go to Veeam. A big thank you for providing these reports to the community.

SCOM Management Pack for Server App-V

Another MP for the System Center 2012 family. This time Microsoft provides the ability to monitor Server App-V trough SCOM (2007 and 2012). The MP offers these features:

  • Monitor for the Server Application Virtualization Agent service health
  • Monitor for the Server Application Virtualization Agent virtual registry health
  • Monitor for virtual environment health

Download it from here. Server App-V Management Pack is offered in 9 different languages.