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Updated: Operations Manager 2007 R2 Management Pack

Posted on October 14, 2009 by Sam T

Microsoft released an updated MP (v6.1.7533.0, released on 10/8/2009) for monitoring the health the Operations Manager components.

Most significant updates, according to me, would seem to be:

Fixed an issue that was previously preventing all rules related to agentless exception monitoring from generating alerts.

Added the rule “Collects Opsmgr SDK ServiceClient Connections” to collect the number of connected clients for a given management group. This data is shown in the view “Console and SDK Connection Count” under the folder “Operations ManagerManagement Server Performance”.

Updated a number of monitors and rules to ensure that data is reported to the correct management group for multihomed agents.

Fixed the configuration of the rule “IIS Discovery Probe Module Execution Failure” to so that the parameter replacement will now work correctly for alert suppression and generating the details of the alert’s description.

The rest is mostly polishing, fine-tuning and complementary updates. Nothing really ground-breaking here, but still a welcome update.

Download at: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=61365290-3c38-4004-b717-e90bb0f6c148

Categories: OpsMgr 2007 | Tags: Management Pack, OpsMgr

SQL ManagementPack Survey – Make your voice heard

Posted on October 7, 2009 by Sam T

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According to the OpsMgr Team blog, Microsoft wants to know what you think about their SQL Server MP. It’s really hard to come by a better opportunity to express your feelings and desires about monitoring SQL Server, so don’t miss this one out.

http://blogs.technet.com/momteam/archive/2009/09/25/sql-management-pack-survey-live-on-connect.aspx

Categories: OpsMgr 2007 | Tags: Management Pack, SQL Server

Windows Server 2008 NLB MP for OpsMgr released

Posted on April 29, 2009 by Sam T

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Don’t know how I missed this when writing the last post, but Microsoft released the MP for Windows Server 2008 NLB yesterday (28/4 -09). This is the initial release for Win2k8 NLB so I guess we just have to try it out then.

Quick Details

File Name:	Microsoft Server 2008 Network Load Balancing System Center Operations Manager 2007 MP.msi
Version:	6.0.6573.0
Date Published:	4/28/2009
Language:	English
Download Size:	519 KB

Feature Summary

Monitor the NLB Node status.
Based on the status of individual cluster nodes, determine the overall state of the cluster.
Where an integration management pack exists, determine the health state of a cluster node by looking at the health state of the load balanced application, such as IIS.
Alert on errors and warnings that are reported by the NLB driver, such as an incorrectly configured NLB cluster.
Take the node out of the NLB cluster if the underlying load-balanced application becomes unhealthy, and add the node back to the cluster when the application becomes healthy again.

Requires OpsMgr 2007 SP1 or later, the Base Operating System MP for 2008, the QFEs for Windows Server 2008 and that you are not running the converted 2003 NLB MP. If you are running the old converted NLB MP, upgrade first. As an additional recommendation, Microsoft recommends in the MP Guide that you install the QFE for wmiprvse.exe problems on Windows Server 2008.

No support for Mixed-mode (2008 and 2003) clusters though.

Categories: OpsMgr 2007 | Tags: Management Pack, OpsMgr

“Error doing IIS Discovery” in OpsMgr

Posted on April 29, 2009 by Sam T

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I have seen this error popping up every now and then at multiple customer sites and haven’t really been able to solve it yet. It does not look like I am alone either.
The error message usually looks like this:

Error doing IIS Discovery

Error: 0x80070002
Details: The system cannot find the file specified.

One or more workflows were affected by this.

Workflow name: Microsoft.Windows.InternetInformationServices.2003.DiscoverBase
Instance name: Microsoft.Windows.InternetInformationServices.2003.ServerRole
Instance ID: {A81E4808-4D05-9BFE-4043-DC668527F2D0}
Management group: MASKED

Or…

Error doing IIS Discovery

Error: 0x80070006
Details: The handle is invalid.

One or more workflows were affected by this.

Workflow name: Microsoft.Windows.InternetInformationServices.2000.DiscoverWebSites26to50
Instance name: IIS Web Server
Instance ID: {D36DA76A-027F-8F3E-4160-115279A1E23A}
Management group: MASKED

I have been trying to figure out what file is missing and/or if the “invalid handle” is related. Possibly a file-handle? Could be but not neccesary since these two errors occur on different servers with increasing repeat-count (atleast once-a-day). The IIS MP does call the IIS*.VBS Scripts in %windir%System32 but as far as I can tell, on the systems I have tried it on, the scritps return valid data. This does by no means mean that there is no error and evidently I am missing something. But what? Does anyone have a clue to this?

References and other victims:

“Error Doing IIS Discovery” on Google
“SCOM: IIS Discovery Probe Module Failed Execution” on Codejnki’s Blog
“Error doing IIS Discovery Error: 0×80070006″ on TechNet Forums
“IIS Discovery Probe Module Execution Failure” on Digital Support Forum
“IIS Discovery Probe Module Execution Failure” on EggHeadCafe
“IISDiscoveryProbe Error – any ideas?” on Microsoft Discusson Groups

And no, neither of these provides even a hint to a working solution.

Categories: OpsMgr 2007 | Tags: Errors, Management Pack, OpsMgr

MSMQ 3 MP for OpsMgr v.6.0.6587.0 Released

Posted on April 28, 2009 by Sam T

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Last friday, 24/4 -09, Microsoft released an updated Management Pack for MSMQ 3.0.

Quick Details

File Name:	Message Queuing System Center Operations Manager 2007 MP.MSI
Version:	6.0.6587.0
Date Published:	4/24/2009
Language:	English
Download Size:	502 KB

Release History

6/3/2008 – Initial Release, version 6.0.6278.23. Refer to the MP guide for further details.
4/24/2009 – Undated release, version 6.0.6587.0. Refer to the MP guide for further details.

The MP Guide does not really say much about what’s updated and I don’t know how much more than the reporting they have fixed. I can just state the fact that support for clustered MSMQ 3 instances is still missing.

Categories: OpsMgr 2007 | Tags: Management Pack, MSMQ, OpsMgr

NetworkAdapterCheck.vbs fails on Windows 2000

Posted on April 26, 2009 by Sam T

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Here’s my summary of the problems with the NetworkAdapterCheck.vbs script in the Windows Server 2000 Operating System Management Pack för Operations Manager 2007 that is causing the failed to create System.PropertyBagData error i wrote about earlier.
This information in also available on https://connect.microsoft.com/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=432627&SiteID=446

Symptoms

This “research” comes from getting an obscene amounts of Script or Executable Failed to run in the Operations Console. Each time it was the NetworkAdapterCheck.vbs script that could not create PropertyBagData. The error message copied from one of the alerts looks like this:

The process started at 14:29:26 failed to create System.PropertyBagData, no errors detected in the output. The process exited with 0

Command executed: "C:WINNTsystem32cscript.exe" /nologo "NetworkAdapterCheck.vbs" MASKEDCOMPUTERNAME 0 false true false
Working Directory: C:Program FilesSystem Center Operations Manager 2007Health Service StateMonitoring Host Temporary Files 2882781

One or more workflows were affected by this.

Workflow name: Microsoft.Windows.Server.2000.NetworkAdapter.NetworkAdapterConnectionHealth
Instance name: 0
Instance ID: {F4C478D3-38E5-8C29-3957-E3B7F486216E}
Management group: MASKED

This error repeats almost as often as the script is scheduled to run and appears on almost every Windows 2000 server.

Updated: Operations Manager 2007 R2 Management Pack

SQL ManagementPack Survey – Make your voice heard

Windows Server 2008 NLB MP for OpsMgr released

Quick Details

Feature Summary

“Error doing IIS Discovery” in OpsMgr

References and other victims:

MSMQ 3 MP for OpsMgr v.6.0.6587.0 Released

Quick Details

Release History

NetworkAdapterCheck.vbs fails on Windows 2000

Symptoms

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