Category: Managament Packs

System Center Monitoring Pack for System Center 2012 – Service Manager

Another MP just released. Service Manager 2012 now can be monitored trough SCOM. This is the first version of the MP. Important Note that installing SCOM agents on Service Manager management servers (SM or DW) it is not supported. The servers are monitored agentless. Also there is special instruction on how to set the Run As account and SCSM Database  Account profile in SCOM.

Download the new MP here.

New version of Windows OS Management Pack for SCOM is out

The new version is 6.0.6972.0. There are lot of improvements about disk monitoring but I suggest you to give a couple of weeks before importing it in production to see if the community will provide feedback of any bugs. Here is the full list of changes:

Unless explicitly noted, these updates apply to all operating system versions supported by this Monitoring Pack:

  • Updated the Cluster shared volume disk monitors so that alert severity corresponds to the monitor state.
  • Fixed an issue where the performance by utilization report would fail to deploy with the message “too many arguments specified”.
  • Updated the knowledge for the available MB monitor to refer to the Available MB counter.
  • Added discovery and monitoring of clustered disks for Windows Server 2008 and above clusters.
  • Added views for clustered disks.
  • Aligned disk monitoring so that all disks (Logical Disks, Cluster Shared Volumes, Clustered disks) now have the same basic set of monitors.
  • There are now separate monitors that measure available MB and %Free disk space for any disk (Logical Disk, Cluster Shared Volume, or Clustered disk).

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These monitors are disabled by default for Logical Disks, so you will need to enable them.

  • Updated display strings for all disks to be consistent, regardless of the disk type.
  • The monitors generate alerts when they are in an error state. A warning state does not create an alert.
  • The monitors have a roll-up monitor that also reflects disk state. This monitor does not alert by default. If you want to alert on both warning and error states, you can have the unit monitors alert on warning state and the roll-up monitor alert on error state.
  • Fixed an issue where network adapter monitoring caused high CPU utilization on servers with multiple NICs.
  • Updated the Total CPU Utilization Percentage monitor to run every 5 minutes and alert if it is three consecutive samples above the threshold.
  • Updated the properties of the Operating System instances so that the path includes the server name it applies to so that this name will show up in alerts.
  • Disabled the network bandwidth utilization monitors for Windows Server 2003.
  • Updated the Cluster Shared Volume monitoring scripts so they do not log informational events.
  • Quorum disks are now discovered by default.
  • Mount point discovery is now disabled by default.

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This version of the Management Pack consolidates disk monitoring for all types of disks as mentioned above. However, for Logical Disks, the previous Logical Disk Free Space monitor, which uses a combination of Available MB and %Free space, is still enabled. If you prefer to use the new monitors (Disk Free Space (MB) Low Disk Free Space (%) Low), you must disable the Logical Disk Free Space monitor before enabling the new monitors.

The default thresholds for the Available MB monitor are not changed, the warning threshold (which will not alert) is 500MB and the error threshold (which will alert) is 300MB. This will cause alerts to be generated for small disk volumes. Before enabling the new monitors, it is recommended to create a group of these small disks (using the disk size properties as criteria for the group), and overriding the threshold for available MB.

You can download the documentation and the new version here.

OpsMgr / SCOM : NetApp Management pack 3.0 – Installation

Christopher KEYAERT shares with us his experience with NetApp Management Pack. Learn how to install it and enable it here.

Cumulative Update 6 for System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 is available

A few days ago CU1 for SCOM 2012 was released. It seems SCOM Team is not sleeping and they released CU6 for SCOM 2007 R2. Here it is what is offered in the release:

Cumulative Update 6 for Operations Manager 2007 R2 resolves the following issues:

  • RMS promotion fails if NetworkName and PrincipalNames are not in sync for agents.
  • UI is limited to only 100 MB for the Memory Usage field in the wizard.
  • Additional OIDs in auth certificate are not processed correctly.
  • AEM creates duplicate computer objects in OpsMgr based on Agents NetBIOS name.
  • Cannot open reporting pane on OpsMgr 2007 R2 remote console.
  • Cannot view schedule for scheduled report.
  • ManagementServerConfigTool with the option "promoterms" fails because it stops polling the SDK Service.
  • OpsMgr reports are failing on Windows 7 with the error: "Cannot initialize report."
  • ACS events have "n/a" as their category in the ACS database.
  • Watch agentless monitoring listener to detect failure to respond.
  • SCOM SDK memory leak on cryptography keys and cryptography contexts.
  • After you click Edit Schedule, a message box appears, and you cannot save the change value.
  • Audit events can be lost when the AdtServer process crashes.

Cumulative Update 6 for Operations Manager 2007 R2 resolves the following cross-platform issues:

  • The installation process for the IBM AIX 6.1 agent incorrectly checks for AIX 5.3 packages.
  • After a system restart, the OpsMgr agent for Solaris may start to run before local file systems are mounted.
  • On Red Hat Linux version 4 and SUSE Linux version 9, LVM disks are not discovered and cannot be monitored.
  • The OpsMgr agent for AIX does not report the arguments for monitored processes.
  • When Microsoft security update MS12-006 is installed on an OpsMgr management server, that management server can no longer communicate with the OpsMgr agent on any Linux or UNIX server.
  • On HP-UX, OpsMgr cannot discover and monitor a logical volume that is composed of more than 127 physical volumes.

Cumulative Update 6 for Operations Manager 2007 R2 adds the following cross-platform features:

  • Support for IBM AIX 7.1 (POWER).
  • Support for Oracle Solaris 11 (x86 and SPARC).
    The update can be downloaded here. Keep in mind that is around 1 GB in size.
    If you are monitoring Cross Platform systems you need to update the MP’s for them after you apply the update. They can be found here.
    The full article about the update is located here.
    I suggest you give a couple of weeks time and test the update in Test environment before apply to production.
    Kevin Holman still hasn’t released an article with details how to apply the update but the process is probably the same like in CU5. You can find Kevin’s article about CU5 here and use it as a reference.

Free Infront Orchestrator MP

Infront Consulting Group offers free MP for monitoring Orchestrator 2012 via SCOM 2007/2012. Taken directly from Infront site:

The Infront System Center Orchestrator Management Pack is a FREE MP that allows you to monitor your Orchestrator Runbooks in System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 or 2012. The native Microsoft MP provides monitoring for the Orchestrator server roles and architecture but it doesn’t monitor your Runbooks. The free Infront System Center Orchestrator Management Pack fills in this gap by allowing you to monitor your Runbooks in SCOM.

The MP can be downloaded for free by registering here.

Many Thanks to Infront for sharing this MP with the community.