Tag: monitor

OpsMgr Self Maintenance Management Pack

One thing can be said about this community management pack – There is 90% chance you will need this MP. Read more about the MP here.

Thank you Tao Yang for sharing it  with the community.

New MP: System Center 2012 Monitoring Pack for Message Queuing

Message Queuing (also known as MSMQ) is a server application that enables applications to communicate across heterogeneous networks and systems that may be temporarily offline or otherwise inaccessible. Instead of an application communicating with a service on another computer, it sends its information to Message Queuing, which sends the information to a Message Queuing service on the target computer where it is made available to the other application. Message Queuing provides guaranteed delivery, efficient routing, security, and priority based messaging.

Download here.

New MPs: System Center 2012 Management Pack for Windows Server Hyper-V 2012 and two more

It is here. Probably one of the most wanted and waited management packs – Windows Server Hyper-V 2012. On the download page the MP promises the following features:

  • Management of critical Hyper-V services that affect virtual machines and host server functionality
  • Management of host server logical disks that affect virtual machine health
  • Full representation of virtualization in a single Hyper-V host server, including virtual networks, and virtual machines
  • Monitoring of virtual machine hardware components that affect availability

 

This MP is only supported on SCOM 2012 or later. The documentation can be found in the installation folder after you install the MP. I’ve took a quick look at the documentation it is not long just 20 pages but it is good to read. Let’s hope there are no critical bugs in the MP because of the tight schedule of SC 2012 SP1. Download link is here.

Along with this MP several days ago two more MPs were released

 

More on Global Service Monitor you can read in this article.

New MP: System Center 2012 Monitoring Pack for Windows Server Backup

There is a new management pack on the horizon. For those who use Windows Server Backup they can now monitor it with SCOM 2012 or SCOM 2007 R2. Unfortunately it only supports Backup feature on Windows Server 2012. The documentation with the MP scattered and doesn’t offer much information. In fact Windows Server 2012 in the documentation is mentioned with its codename Windows Server 8. Also I do not have any idea why SCCM 2012 is also mentioned as required software. Anyway the MP just monitor several events in the event log:

  • Backup cancelled
  • Backup failed
  • Backup failed due to snapshot
  • Backup partially succeeded
  • Backup succeeded with skipped files
  • Recovery failed
  • Recovery succeeded with warnings

 

The MP and the two page guide you can download from here.

New Version: Active Directory Domain Services Management Pack for System Center

Another new version of MP is out. According to the documentation this new version was prepared in December 2012 but released in January 2013. Here are the changes taken directly from the documentation:

 

Fixes

Impact

Product knowledge improvements

· Client Monitoring alerts identify problematic domain controllers in the description.

· Interdomain trust alert identifies which trust is broken in the alert description.

· More specific action recommendations added to alert for “Could not determine FSMO role holder” and alert for “domain Controller’s Ops Master is inconsistent.”

· Knowledge Base article information added to alert for “The Active Directory database is corrupt.”

· Knowledge Base article information added to alert for “Two replication partners have an inconsistent view of the FSMO role holders.”

· Some rules with names that begin “Client Side script…“ but were not actually executed by client-side monitors were renamed.

· More specific action recommendation added to description for Event ID 1000.

Excessive alert fixes

· A duplicate alert that appears when a computer authentication fails was removed.

· Repetitive alerts for UserEnv and Netlogon were replaced with a single alert that includes a count of the number of occurrences.

· The alert for the number of allowable replication partners was increased from 100 to the maximum number of replication connections.

· The alert of FSMO role holder availability was refined so that it is issued less frequently in cases where operations master role holder is temporarily unavailable.

· Active Directory processor overload monitor was removed because it duplicates an existing monitor in the operating system management pack.

· Duplicate alerts for KDC errors and trust verification failures were removed.

· Informational alert was disabled for rule “The default security settings for the NTFS file systems have not been applied to Active Directory directory folders.”

Script error fixes

Multiple script errors were fixed to improve Active Directory site topology discovery, DNS verification, operation master role discovery, and other improvements.

Rule error fixes

Multiple rule errors were fixed to improve error handling, event logging, and server state reporting.

 

As you can see no new features just bug fixes. You can download version 6.0.8070.0 of Active Directory Domain Services Management Pack for System Center from here.