KB Article for OpsMgr: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4546986/update-rollup-9-for-system-center-2016-operations-manager Download catalog site: http://www.catalog.update.microsoft.com/Search.aspx?q=4546986 Updated UNIX/Linux Management Packs: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=29696 Recommended hotfix page: https://kevinholman.com/2009/01/27/which-scom-hotfixes-should-i-apply/ Key fixes: Fixed: On Windows Computer View of SCOM Console, Queries are optimized for better performance. Fixed: We have updated stored procedure to handle Alert Source Path Names which are greater than…
This article covers SQL Agent job monitoring in the current SQL Version Agnostic Management pack, version 7.0.20.0 and later. I will cover three conceptual areas: Out of the box experience and defaults SQL Agent only monitoring (monitoring all jobs at the agent level) SQL Agent Job monitoring (optionally discovering and…
Quick Download: https://github.com/thekevinholman/MaintenanceModeDSTFixScript Maintenance Mode Schedules are a new feature since SCOM 2016. However, one of the challenges with these schedules, is that they run one hour off their intended schedule time, after a Daylight Savings Time change. For instance, if you look at an existing schedule, you can…
KB Article for OpsMgr: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4533415/update-rollup-1-for-system-center-operations-manager-2019 Download catalog site: http://www.catalog.update.microsoft.com/Search.aspx?q=4533415 Download for the NEW Simplified Management Server Update: HERE Updated UNIX/Linux Management Packs: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=58208 Recommended hotfix page: https://kevinholman.com/2009/01/27/which-scom-hotfixes-should-i-apply/ New Features: Support for using Group Managed Service Accounts (gMSA). LINK Simplified management server patching – a new management server update process…
You might remember I wrote about this many years ago, on how to exclude discovery and monitoring of Express editions of SQL using the “ExcludeList” property of the SQL discovery: https://kevinholman.com/2010/02/13/stop-monitoring-sql-express-and-windows-internal-database/ That was cool…. but really did not go as far as we needed it to. Excluding SQL Engine…