Tag: MP

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.

MP Update: BizTalk Server 2010 Monitoring Management Pack

BizTalk Server 2010 MP has been updated. According to the change log only one change is made:

  • Changed discovery to handle a large amount of BizTalk artifacts

The new version can be downloaded from here. If you deploy for first time remember to read the guide first.

New MP: Hyper-V Management Pack Extensions 2012

The Hyper-V MP provides good monitoring but certainly that MP can be extended to provide more advanced monitoring. For Hyper-V 2008 R2 MP some Microsoft employees extended that MP and provided this extension MP at codeplex site. Now they are providing us with similar extension MP for Hyper-V 2012 MP.

New features in this release:
VMs Integration Services Version monitor
Hyper-V Replica Health Monitoring Dashboard and States
SMB Shares I/O latency monitor
Included features from previous release
Hyper-V Hypervisor Logical processor monitoring
Hyper-V Hypervisor Virtual processor monitoring
Hyper-V Dynamic Memory monitoring
Hyper-V Virtual Networks monitoring
NUMA remote pages monitoring
SLAT enabled processor detection
Hyper-V VHDs monitoring
Physical and Logical Disk monitoring
Host Available Memory monitoring
Stopped and Failed VMs monitoring
Failed Live Migrations monitoring

Keep in mind that the management pack is with beta status. You can download it from codeplex site.

Version 2.3 of My Script to Download All SCOM Management Packs with PowerShell

Script is update with some small changes all contributed by Anthony Bailey:

  • Improvements on getting the confirmation link for each MP.
  • The script now also grabs the date the MP was added to Microsoft’s catalog and adds this to the logs/screen output 
  • Any duplicate download links are removed before downloading as some download pages have duplicate files in the html 
  • Improvements on check if MP is already downloaded 

New Community MP: SQL File Disk Performance Management Pack for SCOM

This community MP is written by  Bob Cornelissen, David Scheltens, and Pavel Dzemyantsau.

Thank you guys.

In short what this MP offers:

Starting SQL 2005 SQL DBA’s have the possibility to use Dynamic Management Views and Functions to monitor the health of a server instance, diagnose problems, and tune performance. This management pack is specifically geared towards the sys.dm_io_virtual_file_stats view, which returns I/O statistics for data and log files. The view is used by DBA’s to view current counter values for each database file (data or log). It is a current point in time and these values are cumulative values since the last restart of the server. This management pack collects these values for use in viewing and reporting. There are no health state changes or alerts connected to these values. There are short time performance views and two reports with double Y axis to display longer term data. The long term data is translated from cumulative data into amongst others IOPS for each point in time.

More information about the MP and download you can find at TechNet Gallery.

Once again thanks to the creators for sharing this MP.