AD Management Pack question again

Hi everybody!
Guide instruction presented with AD MP says about installing agent on
ALL Domain controllers. But there is one "but"....In my situation there are several domains in one forest (one parent and two subdomains). My management group there is in one of subdomains. Do i have to install agents to other domains....?
In guide says nothing about it(((

Hi,
The ADMP supports the monitoring of forests in addition to the forest where Operations Manager and the management pack are installed. You can deploy agents to remote forests. The management pack will gather health and performance data for the remote forest
according to the view of the domain controller where the agent is installed.
For more information, please review the link below:
Multi-Forest Monitoring
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd262069.aspx
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A question regarding Management pack dependency.

Hi All,
I am new to SCOM, I have a question regarding management pack dependency.
My question is, Is Dependency is required when New alerts are created in a unsealed MP and the object class selected during alert creation is (i.e Windows server 2012 full operating system) and it is on a Sealed management pack ?
For example i have a Sealed Windows server 2012 monitoring management pack.
I have made a custom one, for windows server 2012, So if it the custom is not dependent on the sealed Windows server 2012 monitoring management pack, Then cant i create any alerts in the custom management pack targeting the class Windows server
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Hi CyrAz,
Thank you for the reply. Now if your's and my understanding is the same, Then look at the below what happened.
I created a Alert monitor targeting a Windows Server 2012 class in my custom management pack which
is not dependent on the Windows server 2012 management pack, But how was i successfully able to create them when the dependency is not there at all, If our understanding is same, then there must be an Error thrown while creating the monitor its self right
? But how was SCOM able to create that ?
Look at the below screenshot.
I was able to create a monitor targeting Windows server 2012 Full operating system and create a alert on the custom management pack which is not at all dependent
on the Windows server 2012 Sealed MP.
Look at the dependency of the management pack where i do not have the Windows server 2012 management as my custom management is not dependent on that.
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Management Pack Contents Question

Hello,
I have recently became the owner of our SCSM 2012 R2 environment and the previous admin was all over the place with putting things in seemingly random management packs. I am in the process of cleaning things up but at the same time I am afraid of removing
a management pack in case there is some "grenade" in it.
Is there an easy way to list or determine what is in each management pack? Maybe a series of powershell scripts? I have been searching on the internet for an answer and trying out a few commands myself but nothing seems to be what I am looking
for.
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Personally, I just look at the XML in the sql database.
select MPName, convert(xml,mpxml) from Managementpack with(nolock)
I'll assume your previous admin put things in unsealed MPs via the console.
In my opinion, the only grenade would be classes or relationships defined in the MP. Other than that, generally you can remove an MP and simply re-import it with no ill effects. Classes and relationships, when their MP is removed, also remove any data defined
in those classes/relationships. So, those are the ones to watch out for.
Unsealed MPs cannot be referenced by other MPs, so again, generally, the only affect removing an unsealed MP can have is removing stuff defined in that unsealed MP..which can be things like templates, views, console tasks, worfklow rules, notification subscriptions,
etc. So while some functionality may be removed (like a view is suddenly missing), re-importing the MP will put the view right back where it came from.
Anyway, I don't know of any simple powershell scripts to get a management pack's manifest (like: How many views are in this MP?), but I would look through your XML and catalog the views, templates, custom console tasks, custom workflows (which include notification
subscriptions) and groups&queues (which include custom classes). Then you can start eliminating the unnecessary stuff.
Incidentally, if you're simply trying to clean-up stuff that was created in the console, I recommend removing that stuff using the console..that way you won't have to deal with MPs at all. For example, if you want to get rid of a view that your previous
admin created, simply go to the view and run the "Delete View" task. You can do the same for templates, notification subscriptions, workflows, etc etc.
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Uninstall all management packs related to System Center Virtual Machine Manager and then run Setup again.

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Again - Active Directory Management Pack - AD MP - SCOM 2012R2 - AD 2012R2 - Action / RunAs Account permissions

Hi,
after reading many Posts and Blogs i came to the conclusion that it is still unclear to me what is needed to Monitor Active Directory successfully and what is the securest way configuring the RunAs or Action Account. I hope the experts here can make a clear
Statement to answer the question for all time ;-)
1. Action Account:
Here is described what permissions and rights are needed to use a low-privileged account:
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh212808.aspx
Now you might say: that was asked and answered so many times..you are right, but the answer was from run as "local System" to "you Need local admin". So also the AD MP documentation still says you Need a local Admin account.
here are other references which says you Need local admin rights:
http://micloud.azurewebsites.net//2014/02/26/scom-agent-grayed-out-when-trying-to-monitor-domain-controllers/
Even Kevin Holman says here
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/systemcenter/en-US/2a0e5a2b-a3d9-42d4-8474-9f690007caa0/opsmgrlatency-cn-gets-auto-created-in-domain-not-configuration:
"Basically - if your domain controllers are running as local system default agent action account, in most cases you will not need to ever set up any replication monitoring run-as accounts.... as local system on a DC has all the rights necessary.
(in most cases).
"Simple questions: Is this really enought to Monitor every aspect of an ActiveDirectory Domain and Domain Controller using a low privilege account the the permissions in the article? Or is using local System better? Is there a difference when
using SCOM2012R2 with the new Agent? Most documentation referes to SCOM2007(except the replication Monitoring where it is clear that other permissions are needed:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/jimmyharper/archive/2009/05/20/configuring-or-disabling-replication-monitoring-in-the-active-directory-management-pack.aspx )

The MP guide is not really clear about it. The only thing they are clear about is whenever you want to use client monitoring. In those situations low privileged will not work.
For each of the client-side monitoring scripts to run successfully, the
Action Account must be a member of the Administrators group on both the computer
on which the client management pack is running and the domain controller that is being monitored. The
Action Account must also be a member of the
Operations Manager Administrators group, which is configured through the Operations console in so that all the scripts that are configured on the Root Management Server can run properly
Both a local system and domain admin are a risk. If someone loads a malicious management pack that makes changes to the AD services you are screwed. The local system has unrestricted access to local resources including domain services.
The only reason I don't want a domain admin account in SCOM is that you have an additional layer where the password potentially could be retrieved. That's not the case with a local system account. But the risks are the same.
See: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms677973%28v=vs.85%29.aspx
But this not an answer to your question. :-)

Questions on Oracle Management Packs

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** Reduced recursive space management
** Reduced contention on data dictionary tables
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3. How many blocks will form a Extent. Is it configurable ?, Where we need to configure whether we need specify it in Storage Parameters or in some configuration files?
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Management pack license question

is all the management packs require license to use?
I see in the grid licensing page:
"Some premium functionality contained within this release of Enterprise Manager requires a separate Oracle license"
How do you know which needs license?
specifically, I am looking at using Service Level Management Pack. Is this free with grid or it needs a separate license from Oracle?
Thanks.

Hi,
When you login to OEM,In the left bottom corner of your home page you can see a link "About Oracle Enterprise Manager",click on tht (+) sign and then it will show the details of mgmt packs.
Click on any of those mgmt pack name and u will get licensing info.
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Adjusting queuestatistics.vbs timeout in MSMQ management pack

Hi all,
I'm running SCOM 2012 R2 and my question is specific to the MSMQ 6.0.6700.88 management pack. I'm seeing a few alerts titled
"Operations Manager failed to start a process", with the alert details saying "Forced to terminate the following process started at x:xx:xx PM because it ran past the configured timeout 300 seconds"
Command executed: "C:\Windows\system32\cscript.exe" /nologo "queuestatistics.vbs" server.domain.local false
One or more workflows were affected by this.
Workflow name: many
Instance name: many
Instance ID: many
etc etc - we've all seen these errors before.
When I run the script manually on the server as local system, the script runs fine, but takes around 4 mins (360 seconds) to finish executing.
I want to adjust the timeout threshold for this script, and I understand that for this script timeout, there is no override available via the SCOM console, and I need to go into the management pack.
I've exported the management pack and I've found the vbs script contained within the management pack, however I was just looking for some guidance on what XML field(s) I should change to adjust the timeout? Searching through the management pack I've
found several areas that might be what I'm after.
I guess I'm just after someone to point me at the right DataSource or Rule ID or something to edit, rather than me just taking a guess and reimporting a busted management pack that I then need to clean up.
Cheers,
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Thanks Michael!
That didn't quite work out for me, but I eventually got it working. At first I did change the <TimeoutSeconds> value under the script as per your diagram, and after reimporting the management pack and flushing the health service cache for good
measure, the script still failed with a 300 second timeout.
However I started looking through the rules in more detail, and I found some rules that reference a datasource with "Queue.Statistics" in the name. I figured that's a close enough match to the VB script that's also running. Here is a screen grab...
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Distribution of Management Packs for Agents

Hello
Can someone please help me with the following question?
I have been watching some of Brian video’s on Authoring and one thing he says make sense and does not make sense at the same time.
1: Install the Management Pack (MP) via the console on the Management Server (MS)
2: The MP will get delivered to agents whose host (Windows Computer, SQL DB Engine or whatever) has an at least one instance of the target class.
New let’s look at two scenarios. Fresh Agent install and remove Health State Folder restart Agent.
Now let’s assume you have a single MP which contains a single Monitor targeted at a custom class (whose class definition and discovery are in separate management packs, so you have potentially
three MPs)
Now you install an agent on a computer for the very first time (never had an agent on this computer before)
First of all as far as I understand SCOM itself does not know which MP is which in so far is it does not know or understand you have broken down your MP into say three MPs (Library for classes
and relationships, Discoveries for discoveries and Monitors for monitors) these MP have relationships to each other but apart from that SCOM does not know that an particular MP only deals with discoveries (or does it).
If the above is correct then when this agent starts up on the new computer it will contact the MS for configuration information and next MPs. So SCOM has no recorded of this computer (apart
from the fact is has just been added the MG) and therefore no information on previous discoveries and thereby what classed do or do not exist on the computer in question. As such I am assuming the agent will download ALL MPs. Run the discoveries,
send info back to MS/database in order to make instances of classes and relationships, pertaining to this agent (e.g. its GUID)
Therefore it is true to say on a newly installed Agent ALL MPs get downloaded regardless? Or does SCOM somehow know which MP's contain discoveries and only send these to start with?
Leading on from the above what about when you stop the agent and deleted the Health State Folder (you see all the 2110 events 'received MP xxx'). Now in the scenario the SCOM DB knows which
class instances and their properties (if defined) existed on the computer the agent is responsible for prior to the agent restart.
Therefore will it now say as you do not have an instance of class XYZ I will not send you the MP who's monitor is targets at XYZ.
However if this is the case it brings us back to the issue/question the 'application or whatever which denotes an instance of XYZ' could be installed at a later date and therefore the 'discovery'
will need to run on said host (if host is capable of hosting app XYZ at some point e.g. right version of windows OS etc.) in which case the MP with the monitor would then need to be sent to the agent. This then brings me to the first question above, I do not
believe (correct me if wrong please) that SCOM knows which MP only contains Discoveries and which only Monitors, so one would assume when you delete the Health State Folder on an agent the result is ALL MP get downloaded again by the agent.
Can someone please clear this up for me, I would be very grateful; perhaps someone from Microsoft looking at the forum as I would like a definitive answer please as misunderstanding this element
will lead to misunderstanding further up the stack as it were.
Thanks All
AAnotherUser__
AAnotherUser__

The Agent doesn't request MPs, it requests for Configuration. So look at configuration flow as workflows(rules/monitors/discoveries/agent tasks) that should be running on an agent.
If there is ONE rule in an MP that should run on an agent, and the rest say 50 do not , the MP would still have to be sent.
On the server side, the configuration service builds the management group topology. It keeps an account of all objects, their relationships.
When an Mp is imported in SCOM, it's elements : Library section (Modules/monitor types) classes, relationships , and all workflows (rules, monitors, tasks, discoveries) are stored in different tables.
Now here is how the flow works.
Agent is installed, Agent and windows computer objects are created initially.
Config service finds a list of all workflows that are targeted at these 2 classes. MPs containing these workflows are sent and those workflows execute(after overrides are set if any).
If discoveries run and detect objects of any other classes, those objects are populated and MG topology is rebuilt.
Example: Logical disks, Windows Server Object
Now config service understand that a few more workflows that are targeted to the classes of the newly discovered objects are to be run, those MPs are sent.
Example, MPs containing disk space monitors, or SQL discoveries that are targeted at windows server class.
and this goes on till the last possible object is discovered. That's when the MP download will stop.
So you may have 10 Mps, then another 7 Mps, then another 10 Mps flowing based on what gets discovered each time new discoveries are downloaded. it will eventually settle down and the agent will have in this case 27 Mps.
You can see this by filtering for 1201 events on the agent. They will get downloaded in phases, as per the new config after fresh discoveries.
Now, to answer your question on clearing healthservice state folder.
Since clearing the folder does not delete already discovered Objects in the DB, when you clear the cache, ALL MPs that are supposed to be on the agent will get downloaded in ONE GO (all 27) because the configuration is already in place , (if the discoveries
were all done and the agent discovered objects were stable when you renamed the folder.)
Hope this brings some clarity. if you have any further questions let me know.

UCS management pack for SCOM

I've installed the UCS management pack for Microsoft SCOM 2007 R2. It appears to be working, however I now keep seeing all computers that have the SCOM agent installed trying to run the cisco.ucs.computer.probeaction.vbs script, which fails and generates alerts. Does anyone know why these servers that are unrelated to UCS would be trying to run these scripts, or how to fix this problem?

The Problem is that you use an “&” string in a name of one of the protection Groups.
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. Restart the “System Center Management” and you should see that the discovery success.
If still have same issue, started to register the differtent dll’s again on the machine and apparently registering the MOMScriptAPI.dll
http://scug.be/dieter/2012/11/08/scom-event-id-21406-file-name-or-class-not-found/
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Disabling Management Packs automatically

Not sure if this is the right place but after a duplicate with RMAN I have to recreate the EM repository with emca. Everything is fine and fully automated except I have to disable all features in the Management Pack Access manually while control_management_pack_access is set to NONE. I find it very annoying I selected SE One during installation and everytime I do a duplicate I have to disable the features again. Can this be automated? I read about CHOPT but from what I understand the database has to be closed. Isn't there another way?
Another question, is it really necessary to disable all features from the Management Pack Access when you only have a SE One license? It's not like I am using those features.

The control_management_pack_access parameter is dynamic and you can set to NONE to turn off the featuers.
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Remove SCSM Management Pack with dependencies

I's trying to delete a couple of MP's from Service Manager 2012 R2 that I no longer need. They all show that the MP "Service Manager Configuration Management Configuration Library" is dependent on them.
The MP is unsealed but is an MPB. How do I remove the dependency from an MPB?
Thanks,
Allen

You've stumbled into a tricky situation. (Sorry, Thomas, I'm stepping on your toes yet again! ;) )
MPBs are basically "zip files" that contain an XML management pack and any resources (dlls, images, etc) that are needed for that management pack.
You can export the XML MP, but you don't get the resources. You can export the MPB, but it's not easy to extract the resources and XML.
But it can be done (I had to do it last week and it was annoying..if there's a better way to do it, I sure would love to know what it is.)
There's a second option that I'll describe in a bit, but it's still pretty annoying. There's also a third option that, if you need resources (images) from an SCSM MP, is even easier.
Edit: Go with option 3 if you're modifying an out-of-the-box MP and you have the authoring tool installed. I had to do option 1 for another MP and didn't have its resources anywhere else. Since you're modifying an SCSM MP, I don't think you'll
have to worry about all the option 1 stuff at all..but I'm leaving it here in case anyone's interested.
Option 1) Extract the MP and resources from the MPB. Modify the MP. Re-bundled the MP with its resources. Import that new MPB.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh519649.aspx
That's only half the story, though. The last sentence of that article describes using the GetStreams() method of the ManagementPacks property. Once you use that, all you have is a big list of Streams. You need to write some powershell to actually convert
those streams into files. I don't even want to show you the powershell I used because it only worked for a very specific set of resources that I knew existed in the management pack I was trying to modify. It would not work for any other management pack
or any other resource. But, Google can show you plenty of examples on how to convert a stream to a file using powershell (I found an example on StackOverflow that I adapted
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15299544/how-can-i-write-a-binary-stream-object-to-a-file-in-powershell I don't know if there's a better or more elegant way of doing it, I just know I was able to adapt it to work for me)
After all that, you'll have your resources. Now you can export the MP from Service Manager as just an XML file. Make your changes to it. Use New-MPBBundle.ps1
http://blogs.technet.com/b/servicemanager/archive/2009/09/04/introducing-management-pack-bundles.aspx to bundle your xml file with the resources you just extracted. Import your new MPB.
Option 2) Remove unnecessary references using C# (Maybe powershell?)
Using the SDK, retrieve your MP. Remove the reference. "AcceptChanges()". Done.
ManagementPack mp = emg.ManagementPacks.GetManagementPack(new Guid("<My Management Pack Guid>"));
mp.References.Remove("<The alias for the reference I want to remove>");
mp.AcceptChanges();
Option 3) If the MP you want to modify is an out-of-the-box SCSM MP bundle, get the resources from your authoring tool installation..they're all in there. (the png images, not the DLLs)
Then you can just export the MP XML, modify it, then re-bundle it with new-mpbfile.ps1 and re-import it into service manager.
All of these options of course require that _nothing_ in the management pack actually uses that alias/reference you want to remove. So if you still have a view that references that MP, you won't be able to remove the reference. Option 2 would be more
annoying if the reference you want to remove is still being used..you'd have to use the console to remove the views, or templates, or whatever else might be referencing it.
Option 2 gives me an idea for a quick little utility I could write.. "remove unused references from all unsealed MPs"..maybe I'll do that this weekend :)

SQL Management Pack Agent Job Unit Monitors

I am trying to utilize the SQL Agent Job Monitors included with the SQL Management Pack (page 81 of the MP guide), particularly the "Last Run Status" monitor. I have set an Override for "Generate Alerts" to True. The goal
is to have an email notification sent when any SQL Agent job fails on a specific group of computers. However, I am not familiar enough with what "Last Run Status" is actually monitoring and if it will do what I am looking for. Does this monitor
check the job status of any agent job on the target group? I tried setting up a job for it to fail, which it does fail, but it does not generate an alert. Any suggestions appreciated. Thanks.

1) For monitoring SQL server job status, you can refer to the following blog
http://blogs.technet.com/b/kevinholman/archive/2011/08/05/how-to-monitor-sql-agent-jobs-using-the-sql-management-pack-and-opsmgr.aspx
2) For troubleshoot: Make sure that your SQL agent job is discovered, you may find the discovered job under Microsoft SQL Server --> SQL Agent --> SQL agent job status. By default, the discovery is disabled and you should enabled the discovery by using
override.
Roger
Thanks. So I enabled Agent Job discovery for the systems that I want. It discovered those objects. Now, I still cannot get the alerting to work. I can see the Health State of the job change to a Warning, indicating "Last Run Status" equals Failed, but
it is not generating an alert. I set Overrides (Generates Alert = True) on a Group that included one of the job objects, nothing. I also set the same Override directly on the job object and I still do not receive an alert. Any ideas? I
noticed someone in the comments mentioned in the blog you linked, a similar issue, except with the Job Duration monitor. However, he was able to get alerts to generate by setting the Override directly on the Job object and noted that it is not a
feasible solution due to the number of jobs he wants to monitor. Again, I tried the same, but still could not get alerts. That solution would not be acceptable for me either because of the number of jobs that I would have to set individual Overrides for.

Error showing while adding a management pack to 2007R2 authoring console

Hi Every one,
While trying to add an unsealed management pack to 2007 authoring console we are getting error
XSD Verification failed for management pack[line: 1, "color:#222222;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;">
system.xml.schema.xmlschemavalidationException:The schemaversion atribute is not declared
any help will be thank full
Regards,
Nikhil

The Authoring Console has not been updated and does not understand the OpsMgr 2007R2 MP Schema version. It can still be used to produce MP that will work on OpsMgr 2007 R2, but you need to reference the old versions of the libraries.
You can check this link , it will help you in your issue
http://blogs.inframon.com/post/2012/06/12/Choosing-the-correct-Management-Pack-Solution-with-Visual-Studio-Authoring-Extensions.aspx
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