Tao Yang updated OpsMgr Self Maintenance Management Pack to version 2.0. If you are SCOM administrator this is definitely an MP you should check out. All the changes and information about the MP you can find in Tao’s blog.
Category: Managament Packs
Preview MP: System Center 2012 Management Pack for Java Application Performance Monitoring Preview
If you want to test the improved Java Application monitoring in SC 2012 R2 Preview here is the MP that will do that.
Updated MP: Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 Feature Pack 1
Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 management pack is now updated to support feature pack 1 of the application. The MP is version 1.1 but the downloads point to to other version one for SCOM 2007 (7.0.0.1) and one for SCOM 2012 (7.0.1.1). In the new version only the following change is made – Monitoring Microsoft Dynamics NAV Web Server instances added in Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 Feature Pack 1.
You can download the MPs and the guide for importing here.
HP Storage Management Integration with Microsoft System Center
Previously I’ve covered HP Storage Management Pack but now there is another HP Storage tool that integrates with System Center component named HP Storage UI add-in for System Center Virtual Machine Manager. These two tools combined together represent HP Storage Management Integration with Microsoft System Center.
So what is exactly this new tool:
HP Storage UI add-in for System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) enables enhanced integration of SCVMM and HP Storage providing our customers a single pane-of-glass monitoring view of physical, virtual and cloud environments. It automates HP Storage management and provides an integrated view of VMs and associated storage resources.
HP Storage supports all SMI-S-enabled functionality introduced in SCVMM 2012 – Storage Discovery, Storage Classification, Storage Provisioning and Storage Allocation.
HP Storage also provides a new HP Storage UI Add-in for enhanced monitoring, provisioning and control of HP Storage in SCVMM environment.
Personally I haven’t the chance to try it but from what I’ve seen from demos and screenshots it is definitely worth a try if you have one of the following storages:
- HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage – HP 3PAR StoreServ 10000 Storage, HP 3PAR StoreServ 7000 Storage, F-Class, T-Class, HP 3PAR OS 3.1.1 and 3.1.2
- HP StoreOnce Backup – HP StoreOnce Backup: HP D2D 2000, D2D 4000 and HP StoreOnce B6000 Gen 3 Backup Systems
You can download it for free from here.
New MP: BizTalk Server 2013 Monitoring Management Pack
A new MP is released. This MP gives you the opportunity to monitor your BizTalk 2013 Servers. If you want to monitor 2010 BizTalk Servers there is a separate MP for them which was quite noisy. Let’s hope the new MP will give us better monitoring without flooding SCOM with useless alerts. There is only one way to find out. Download and try the MP from here.
Note: Remember to read the guide before importing. Keep in mind that the MP uses Run As Profiles and I suggest to use them instead of using the default action account.
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