Tag: OpsMgr

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.

Simulate monitoring of network devices with Jalasoft by Kevin Holman

Very good article by Kevin Holman if you plan to test network devices monitoring in SCOM.

Version 2.2 of My Script to Download All SCOM Management Packs with PowerShell

Microsoft has made some changes to the code of the download pages on the MPs so the script was not able to get MP version. Here is full change log:

  • Microsoft has made some changes to the code of the download pages again so the script was not able to get the version of the MP. Made changes to work with the new code.
  • The script now checks if MP web pages is invoked successfully 
  • If MP Page is not invoked successfully error appears. Error is also written in a Error Log.
  • Improvements on check if MP is already downloaded
  • MP download links are displayed on separate lines
  • Changes section was made more readable format

You can download the new version from the following locations:

Microsoft Virtual Academy: System Center 2012 SP1 Extensibility

Five more videos from MVA about advanced functions in System Center 2012 SP1. These videos cover Operations Manager and Service Manager components: