SCOM: Neue Management Packs im November

Microsoft hat einige Management Packs aktualisiert und bereitgestellt.

Management Pack für Microsoft Windows Server File & iSCSI Services 2012

Das Management Pack für Microsoft Windows Server File & iSCSI Services 2012 enthält folgende Neuerungen:

• DeDuplication
• FSRM
• Support für clustered namespaces
• Support für clustered replication group members
• Agentless monitoring
• More detailed product knowledge
• iSCSI – iSCSI Target is built inbox first time in Server 2012. This is the first version integrated with File Server.
• NFS
• SMB

Management Pack for SQL Server 2014 Analysis Services

Folgende Neuerungen sind im Vergleich zu SQL Server 2012 AS MP enthalten:

• New version of Generic Presentation Management Pack has been introduced
• Summary dashboard for SQL Server Analysis Services 2014 Instances with drill-down to SQL Services Analysis Services 2014 Database dashboard
• Summary dashboard for SQL Server Analysis Services 2014 Databases
• Cross-version views
• CPU utilization monitoring scenario on SSAS Instance level
• New performance collection rules are introduced:
  • SSAS 2014: Database Disk Free Space (GB)
  • SSAS 2014: Database Drive Space Used By Others (GB)
  • SSAS 2014: Cache Evictions/sec
  • SSAS 2014: Cache Inserts/sec
  • SSAS 2014: Cache KB added/sec
  • SSAS 2014: CPU utilization (%)
  • SSAS 2014: Processing Rows read/sec
  • SSAS 2014: Storage Engine Query Rows sent/sec
• Improvements:
  • Icons for various classes are updated
  • Performance counters object names are updated
• Fixes:
  • An issue related to the discovery of a non-cluster instance on a cluster virtual node is fixed
  • Some other minor fixes
• Other changes:
  • Old dashboards are deprecated and removed

Lync Server 2013 Management Pack

Das Lync Server 2013 Management Pack enthält folgende Monitoring-Tools:

• End-to-End scenario availability from various locations.
• Call reliability and quality perceived by real users.
• Component health and performance. Active Monitoring Management pack
• Geographically distributable end-to-end scenario validation for Lync Server 2010 and Lync Server 2013 deployments. This includes coverage for internal, remote and branch office users.
• Increased scenario coverage in areas like AV Edge Connectivity and Exchange Unified Message Connectivity.
• Enhanced troubleshooting logs to streamline root cause analysis of failures. Component and User Management pack
• Increased reliability monitoring of real end user calls and conferences.
• Integrated media quality alerts driven from Quality of Experience (QoE) data reported by client applications.
• Full event and performance monitoring for all Lync 2013 roles.