How to view the dependencies for a management pack

How to view the dependencies for a management pack

Many times you want to know what management pack are the current MP depend on,

To view the dependencies for a management pack

• In the Operations console, in the Administration workspace, click Management Packs.
• Right-click the desired management pack, and then click Properties.
• In the Properties dialog box for the management pack, click the Dependencies tab.
• The Dependencies tab lists any management packs that the selected management pack depends on and any management packs that depend on the selected management pack.

What does Sealed and Unsealed Management Packs mean

What does Sealed and Unsealed Management Packs mean

• Management packs are either sealed or unsealed. A sealed management pack is a binary file that cannot be edited. An unsealed management pack is an XML file that can be edited. Sealed management packs should have an .mp extension, while unsealed management packs should have an .xml extension.

• In general, management packs obtained from an application or hardware device vendor are sealed.

Although you cannot change the settings in a sealed management pack, you can still customize the applied settings of a management pack after it is imported by using overrides or by creating additional settings such as rules, monitors, and tasks that supersede the management pack's default settings. All customizations that you create are saved to a separate management pack file.

What is a Management Pack in SCOM mean

What is a Management Pack in SCOM mean

• Generally when you explain to your top management about SCOM, you use the word Management pack. All of sudden on of the executive stopped and asked me what does Management Pack mean, So i taught it would be useful if i give some explanation here.

• Management packs typically contain monitoring settings for applications and services. After a management pack is imported into a management group, System Center 2012 – Operations Manager immediately begins monitoring objects based on default configurations and thresholds that are set by the management pack.

Each management pack can contain any or all of the following parts:

• Monitors, which direct an agent to track the state of various parts of a managed component.
• Rules, which direct an agent to collect performance and discovery data, send alerts and events, and more.
• Tasks, which define activities that can be executed by either the agent or the console.
• Knowledge, which provides textual advice to help operators diagnose and fix problems.
• Views, which offer customized user interfaces for monitoring and managing this component.
• Reports, which define specialized ways to report on information about this managed component.
• Object discoveries, which identify objects to be monitored.
• Run As profiles, which allow you to run different rules, tasks, monitors, or discoveries under different accounts on different computers.

Can IIS Managment Pack run on Low Privilege account

Can IIS Management Pack run on Low Privilege account

• The IIS Management Pack relies on the IIS metabase, which requires administrator rights. Because of this requirement, the Management Pack cannot be run using a low-privilege account on an agent computer

New Windows Server Operating System Management pack for Windows 2012 R2 version 6.0.7297.0

New Windows Server Operating System Management pack for Windows 2012 R2 Version 6.0.7297.0

• Microsoft has released a new MP for Windows Server which include 2012,2012 R2, Windows 2008

Following are the Fixes that has been done in this latest

• In 2008, 2012 platforms, the “Logical Disk Free Space (%) Low” monitor do not alert as expected when free space is 0%. With this fix, this monitor will alert when free space is 0%

• In all platforms, logical disks are un-discovered if we configure them as Asymmetric storage on Failover Cluster. With this fix, this issue will be resolved

• The Windows Server OS Management pack collects logical disk size is megabytes. During discovery this value used to be assigned to integer property. When logical disk size is significantly large (for example, when disk is of several petabytes), in megabytes format it goes out of boundaries of integer type. As a result the workflow fails while trying to insert discovery data. To support large logical disk another double properties was introduced, since double type has much more wide values range. Old integer property with constant “-1” value is preserved for upgrade compatibility and marked as DEPRECETED

• “Volume Mount Points on Dynamic Disks” aren’t discovered by Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Discovery MP. With this fix, this issue will be resolved

• MP has been modified to not discover System Reserved volumes on Windows Server 2012 to ensure it is consistent with the rest of the OS versions

To Download the Latest MP: Click Here

How to Create Custom Event ID monitoring using SCOM 2012 R2 - Step by Step

How to Create Custom Event ID monitoring using SCOM

• Many Times we get request to create new Event ID monitors which are not default available.Today we will create those Event  ID monitors to Monitor Custom Event ID.

• First Install the System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Authoring Console.This is the Tool that will help you create Custom Monitoring and very effective tool for developing Managements pack

Step by Step:

Once you Install the Tool open it and click on the Icon Below and select New Management Pack and give a name

• Then Click on "Health Model Tab" and right hand side click New-->Alerting-->Windows Event
• This will Open the Windows Event ID Custom Monitoring Pane

• Now give it a Name "Event ID 7040 Monitoring"

• Then Click on Target and Select "Browse All Classes"
• Now Check "List" and Search for "Windows Computers" and Select it

• In Category select "Alerts" and Click Next
• Now in The Log Name Give a Event Log where the event is logged. In our Case we Select "System". Then click Next

• Now Enter the "Event ID" and "Event Source" and Click Next

• Give the Alert the Name you want and click Finish

• Now Save the MP in Top and Import it in your Environment to Monitor this Event ID

PowerShell Command to get Specific Alert in SCOM 2012 R2 and SCOM 2016

PowerShell Command to get Specific Alert in SCOM 2012 R2 and SCOM 2016

• Powershell Command to get only Specific alert with Specific Name is something we are asked frequently
• Use the Below Command to get it done
• GET-SCOMAlert Where {$_.Name --eq "Alert You want to get"}