Model Driven Configuration Management

Hi,
i'm a PhD student at the [VLBA Lab in Magdeburg|http://www.vlba-lab.de/] and i would like to share my thoughts about my research topic '[Model Driven Configuration Management|http://www.vlba-lab.de/en/Home/Research/Topics/ModelDrivenConfigurationManagement/index.html]' with you. Model-Driven Configuration Management (MDCM), means using MDE techniques to implement the requirements concerning the configuration of IT system landscape and IT infrastructures.
Problem:
While the capabilities of Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) have been realized in many parts of software development, MDE support for IT system landscapes and IT infrastructures is barely adequate. Although common frameworks for Enterprise Architecture Management (EAM) propose predefined artifacts and methods for this purpose, the transition between the design stage and the operating stage of software takes place manually. Time-consuming discovery procedures capture the current software configuration after the transition, store it in configuration databases and allow further analysis on the basis of reconstructed models.
Objective:
The identified gap between EAM and IT operations shall be closed by model-driven configuration management so that
1. the deployment of software in an IT system landscape and
2. the configuration of the underlying IT infrastructure can be accomplished automatically and traceably during both the initial transition and later migration.
During my research i found similiar approaches for using Model-Driven Engineering techniques either for EAM or for IT operations, but not a combination of both and so my question is, if you have any expierences in using MDE for configuring your IT system landscape on the basis of EAM artifacts?
Thanks,
Sebastian

Hi Sebastian;
Your quest seems to be very interesting.
Well I am not sure if you have SAP exprience. Well I am Technology consutant and may be I will try to make sence of your reserch from SAP point of view.
What I understand from (Model Driven arch) MDE in SAP is a traction (program) called "SPRO" . It allows you to configure the already developed allications (in ABAP). This configuration are stored in Database and then allow further analysis. As you explained.
Also a technology that might intrest you would be BC sets. It performs predefine recomended configurations for your applications and asks for your inputs if required.
Regarding your specific area of requirement i.e. automation for IT infra configuration ; i generally feel that developers always get all the tools to get their job easily done... But administrator never get their due share of attention for ease of use of their tools.

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Amit

Hi Amit,
If you use a tool like Subversion (or any other tool which is based on CVS), you will run into problems because the repository will attempt to merge the files. This, as you noted, does not work very well for Oracle Forms binaries.
If you would like to stick with Subversion (or another concurrent access model), you can compile your Oracle Forms binaries as .FMT files (ascii text files) for use in the repository. This way Subversion can actually perform the merge on the files, although I cannot say how well the merged file compile.
If you really want to store FMBs, you could either experiment with Subversion by locking each file or use a different source control program that does not support concurrent access (like rcs or pvcs). Then, you can perform any comparisons/diffs outside the source control repository.
For comparison/diffs, there is an external tool called FormsMate developed by Jockvale Consulting, Ltd. which will allow you to compare two Oracle Forms binaries, producing a report of all the changes. This is very helpful for comparing say version 1.0 of an FMB to version 1.1 of the same file.
Hope this provides some insight.
- Steve

Integration Services 2012 - Parameters and configuration management

Our organization has implemented the project deployment model and it works great! It helps has helped us standardize deployment and configuration management. The big plus for us is the fact that we can now run reports on all SSIS
package configurations. There is one challenge though that we have come across. We haven’t found a good way to reuse the same ssis package while passing different parameters from different jobs and still be able to keep the configured parameter
values for each job documented in SSIDB; if you configure each job to pass different parameter values to the same package, the parameters are actually saved under the the job step’s command. The challenge is that there isn’t a clean way to retrieve
those parameters from msdb, unless someone out there has been able to? We need to retrieve the configured values to be able to build a report on all jobs and packages which contain all configured values. This makes our jobs easier when troubleshooting
a problem.
The only work around we have found is to simply create two different packages, one for each job. I have a problem with not being able to reuse a package from a conceptual stand point. I am sure there is someone out there that has come up with a
good solution. Can you please share it?
thank you,
Juan.

If I understand you correctly, you may be able to get what you want from catalog.execution_parameter_values catalog view
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff878152.aspx
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Configuration Manager & Licenses for AIX, Linux

All,
I have read the SCCM 2012 licensing document (System Center
2012 Licensing Pricing and SKU Overview) but I'm still unable to understand the content. Does one pay, having a datacenter license, for every configuration manager client used on each device (based on cpu) and does this also count for the SCOM
client?Or having paid for the scom client means that the configuration manager client is covered as well.
Also, how does this model applies when installing a client on an AIX LPAR which is part of a Power 5 or Power 6 system. (with for example 64 cpu's). Does this simply mean the need to have 32 CAL's ?
Bit confused about the following statement in the document "SC 2012 Datacenter allows for any # of managed OSEs per license."
thanks

Hi,
to get a valid legal answer, I would recommend to contact your licensing Partner.
But from my Point of view:
You are right, for the Server with 64 cpu's, you will Need 32 System Center 2012 R2 Datacenter/Standard Server Management Licenses. But then, all available Clients are usable (SCOM, SCCM, DPM)
The Statement simply means: When you have a datacenter license, which only has to cover the requirements of the cpu's, it doesn't matter, how many virtualized Systems (OSE) are running on this Server, on all of those OSE's you can use the System
Center Clients (or manage them without). Other than with Standard, where you got to check, if you have to license the cpu's or the OSE's.
I hope I could Point that out.
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SCCM 2012 R2 Configuration Manager Client Package - stuck "In Progress"

Hi Team; I’m having 2 issues with SCCM 2012 R2:
Issue 1: I'm having a strange issue with the default XXX00002 package - "Configuration Manager Client Package",
it will not deploy to the Secondary Site DP. The console is saying "In Progress" - below is the output from the
distmgr.log file.
~Package BDC00002 does not have a preferred sender.
$$<SMS_DISTRIBUTION_MANAGER><03-17-2014 16:00:23.443+240><thread=6032 (0x1790)>
~CDistributionSrcSQL::UpdateAvailableVersion PackageID=BDC00002, Version=1, Status=2301
$$<SMS_DISTRIBUTION_MANAGER><03-17-2014 16:00:23.444+240><thread=6032 (0x1790)>
~StoredPkgVersion (1) of package BDC00002. StoredPkgVersion in database is 1.
$$<SMS_DISTRIBUTION_MANAGER><03-17-2014 16:00:23.462+240><thread=6032 (0x1790)>
~SourceVersion (1) of package BDC00002. SourceVersion in database is 1.
$$<SMS_DISTRIBUTION_MANAGER><03-17-2014 16:00:23.462+240><thread=6032 (0x1790)>
~Package BDC00003 does not have a preferred sender.
$$<SMS_DISTRIBUTION_MANAGER><03-17-2014 16:00:23.443+240><thread=6092 (0x17CC)>
~CDistributionSrcSQL::UpdateAvailableVersion PackageID=BDC00003, Version=1, Status=2301
$$<SMS_DISTRIBUTION_MANAGER><03-17-2014 16:00:23.464+240><thread=6092 (0x17CC)>
STATMSG: ID=2301 SEV=I LEV=M SOURCE="SMS Server" COMP="SMS_DISTRIBUTION_MANAGER" SYS=BBK-SCCM-PRI.bbk2310.com SITE=PRI PID=2768 TID=6032 GMTDATE=Mon Mar 17 20:00:23.476 2014
ISTR0="Configuration Manager Client Package" ISTR1="BDC00002" ISTR2="" ISTR3="" ISTR4="" ISTR5="" ISTR6="" ISTR7="" ISTR8="" ISTR9="" NUMATTRS=1 AID0=400 AVAL0="BDC00002"
$$<SMS_DISTRIBUTION_MANAGER><03-17-2014 16:00:23.477+240><thread=6032 (0x1790)>
StateTable::CState::Handle - (2301:1 2014-03-17 20:00:23.476+00:00) >> (0:0 2014-02-28 16:33:45.383+00:00)
$$<SMS_DISTRIBUTION_MANAGER><03-17-2014 16:00:23.484+240><thread=6032 (0x1790)>
CStateMsgReporter::DeliverMessages - Queued message: TT=1401 TIDT=0 TID='8ACCAE01-5079-4FCD-A988-C1CD3004B698' SID=2301 MUF=0 PCNT=2, P1='PRI' P2='2014-03-17 20:00:23.476+00:00' P3='' P4=''
P5='' $$<SMS_DISTRIBUTION_MANAGER><03-17-2014 16:00:23.495+240><thread=6032 (0x1790)>
~StoredPkgVersion (1) of package BDC00003. StoredPkgVersion in database is 1.
$$<SMS_DISTRIBUTION_MANAGER><03-17-2014 16:00:23.496+240><thread=6092 (0x17CC)>
~SourceVersion (1) of package BDC00003. SourceVersion in database is 1.
$$<SMS_DISTRIBUTION_MANAGER><03-17-2014 16:00:23.497+240><thread=6092 (0x17CC)>
STATMSG: ID=2301 SEV=I LEV=M SOURCE="SMS Server" COMP="SMS_DISTRIBUTION_MANAGER" SYS=BBK-SCCM-PRI.bbk2310.com SITE=PRI PID=2768 TID=6092 GMTDATE=Mon Mar 17 20:00:23.510 2014
ISTR0="Configuration Manager Client Upgrade Package" ISTR1="BDC00003" ISTR2="" ISTR3="" ISTR4="" ISTR5="" ISTR6="" ISTR7="" ISTR8="" ISTR9="" NUMATTRS=1 AID0=400
AVAL0="BDC00003" $$<SMS_DISTRIBUTION_MANAGER><03-17-2014 16:00:23.510+240><thread=6092 (0x17CC)>
StateTable::CState::Handle - (2301:1 2014-03-17 20:00:23.510+00:00) >> (0:0 2014-02-28 16:33:45.383+00:00)
$$<SMS_DISTRIBUTION_MANAGER><03-17-2014 16:00:23.515+240><thread=6092 (0x17CC)>
CStateMsgReporter::DeliverMessages - Queued message: TT=1401 TIDT=0 TID='8ACCAE01-5079-4FCD-A988-C1CD3004B698' SID=2301 MUF=0 PCNT=2, P1='PRI' P2='2014-03-17 20:00:23.510+00:00' P3='' P4=''
P5='' $$<SMS_DISTRIBUTION_MANAGER><03-17-2014 16:00:23.526+240><thread=6092 (0x17CC)>
CStateMsgReporter::DeliverMessages - Created state message file: D:\Program Files\Microsoft Configuration Manager\inboxes\auth\statesys.box\incoming\1sfb1dbj.SMX
$$<SMS_DISTRIBUTION_MANAGER><03-17-2014 16:00:23.571+240><thread=6032 (0x1790)>
Successfully send state change notification 8ACCAE01-5079-4FCD-A988-C1CD3004B698
$$<SMS_DISTRIBUTION_MANAGER><03-17-2014 16:00:23.572+240><thread=6032 (0x1790)>
~Exiting package processing thread.
$$<SMS_DISTRIBUTION_MANAGER><03-17-2014 16:00:23.574+240><thread=6032 (0x1790)>
CStateMsgReporter::DeliverMessages - Created state message file: D:\Program Files\Microsoft Configuration Manager\inboxes\auth\statesys.box\incoming\abaibh8y.SMX
$$<SMS_DISTRIBUTION_MANAGER><03-17-2014 16:00:23.637+240><thread=6092 (0x17CC)>
Successfully send state change notification 8ACCAE01-5079-4FCD-A988-C1CD3004B698
$$<SMS_DISTRIBUTION_MANAGER><03-17-2014 16:00:23.683+240><thread=6092 (0x17CC)>
~Exiting package processing thread.
$$<SMS_DISTRIBUTION_MANAGER><03-17-2014 16:00:23.685+240><thread=6092 (0x17CC)>
Sleep 30 minutes...
$$<SMS_DISTRIBUTION_MANAGER><03-17-2014 16:00:26.886+240><thread=2936 (0xB78)>
~Used 0 out of 3 allowed processing threads.
$$<SMS_DISTRIBUTION_MANAGER><03-17-2014 16:00:27.948+240><thread=4900 (0x1324)>
~Sleep 3600 seconds...
$$<SMS_DISTRIBUTION_MANAGER><03-17-2014 16:00:27.950+240><thread=4900 (0x1324)>
Sleep 30 minutes...
$$<SMS_DISTRIBUTION_MANAGER><03-17-2014 16:00:31.934+240><thread=2936 (0xB78)>
~Used 0 out of 3 allowed processing threads.
$$<SMS_DISTRIBUTION_MANAGER><03-17-2014 16:00:33.021+240><thread=4900 (0x1324)>
~Sleep 3600 seconds...
$$<SMS_DISTRIBUTION_MANAGER><03-17-2014 16:00:33.023+240><thread=4900 (0x1324)>
~Used 0 out of 3 allowed processing threads.
$$<SMS_DISTRIBUTION_MANAGER><03-17-2014 16:00:38.108+240><thread=4900 (0x1324)>
~Sleep 3600 seconds...
$$<SMS_DISTRIBUTION_MANAGER><03-17-2014 16:00:38.111+240><thread=4900 (0x1324)>
Sleeping for 60 minutes before content cleanup task starts.~
$$<SMS_DISTRIBUTION_MANAGER><03-17-2014 16:06:28.094+240><thread=4968 (0x1368)>
Sleep 30 minutes...
$$<SMS_DISTRIBUTION_MANAGER><03-17-2014 16:30:52.271+240><thread=2936 (0xB78)>
Sleep 30 minutes...
$$<SMS_DISTRIBUTION_MANAGER><03-17-2014 17:01:10.002+240><thread=2936 (0xB78)>
~Used 0 out of 3 allowed processing threads.
$$<SMS_DISTRIBUTION_MANAGER><03-17-2014 17:01:10.977+240><thread=4900 (0x1324)>
~Sleep 3600 seconds...
$$<SMS_DISTRIBUTION_MANAGER><03-17-2014 17:01:10.979+240><thread=4900 (0x1324)>
Sleeping for 60 minutes before content cleanup task starts.~
$$<SMS_DISTRIBUTION_MANAGER><03-17-2014 17:06:55.337+240><thread=4968 (0x1368)>
Issue 2: I'm trying to deploy a couple of Packages/Applications using SCCM 2012 R2 running on Win2K8 R2 with no luck, knowing that I could install the packages
on a test VM “in the DataCenter site”, but when trying to deploy the packages to production PC “in the Office Site”,
the status is packages deployment compliance stuck at 0%
Infrastructure:
3 SCCM servers: CAS, PRI & SEC. Both CAS and PRI are in the DataCenter site, and SEC is in the Office site. The office site has several IP subnets.
Boundaries are configured through Forest Discovery “IP Ranges and AD Sites” since that the AD site should contain all the IP subnets that the AD site contains, Boundaries groups are also configured and a site reference
server is configured for each group respectively.
A OU based Collection has been configured that contains 13 PC "the collection contains the PCs that the packages should be installed.
Packages/Applications are configured correctly since that I could successfully deploy the packages to the test VM which is on the same subnet as the CAS and the PRI servers "the DataCenter subnet". The issue
is that I can't deploy the packages to production PCs in the Office subnet!
Firewall rules are configured and applied via GP, and I even turned Windows Firewall off, and still nothing! I tried to manually initiate Computer Policy download via the SCCM GUI and via a script, still no luck!
I tried configuring IP Subnet Boundaries, still no luck!!
Here are the last 2 lines in the LocationServices.log of a client PC at the Office Site:
<![LOG[MPLIST requests are throttled for 00:00:44]LOG]!><time="14:47:00.766+240" date="03-17-2014" component="LocationServices" context="" type="2" thread="5776"
file="lssecurity.cpp:4528"> <![LOG[Current AD site of machine is Default-First-Site-Name]LOG]!><time="14:47:00.777+240" date="03-17-2014" component="LocationServices" context="" type="1"
thread="4884" file="lsad.cpp:770">
And here are the last 4 lines in the ClientLocation.log
<![LOG[Rotating assigned management point, new management point [1] is: BBK-SCCM-PRI.bbk2310.com (7958) with capabilities: <Capabilities SchemaVersion="1.0"><Property Name="SSLState"
Value="0"/></Capabilities>]LOG]!><time="14:49:04.880+240" date="03-17-2014" component="ClientLocation" context="" type="1" thread="3600" file="lsad.cpp:6311">
<![LOG[Assigned MP changed from <BBK-SCCM-PRI.bbk2310.com> to <BBK-SCCM-PRI.bbk2310.com>.]LOG]!><time="14:49:04.891+240" date="03-17-2014" component="ClientLocation" context="" type="1"
thread="3600" file="lsad.cpp:1532"> <![LOG[Rotating proxy management point, new management point [1] is: BBK-SCCM-SEC.bbk2310.com (7958) with capabilities: <Capabilities SchemaVersion="1.0"><Property Name="SSLState"
Value="0"/></Capabilities>]LOG]!><time="14:49:05.345+240" date="03-17-2014" component="ClientLocation" context="" type="1" thread="3600" file="lsad.cpp:6374">
<![LOG[Rotating local management point, new management point [1] is: BBK-SCCM-SEC.bbk2310.com (7958) with capabilities: <Capabilities SchemaVersion="1.0"><Property Name="SSLState" Value="0"/></Capabilities>]LOG]!><time="14:49:05.786+240"
date="03-17-2014" component="ClientLocation" context="" type="1" thread="3600" file="lsad.cpp:6436">
It looks like clients in the Office Site can’t connect to the DP/MP of the Secondary Site server which is also a DP.
While on the PC that the application was installed on I see the folowing in the LocationService.log:
<![LOG[Distribution Point='http://BBK-SCCM-PRI.bbk2310.com/SMS_DP_SMSPKG$/Content_69547d2a-339f-4ac4-9523-238c79ff8a52.1', Locality='LOCAL', DPType='SERVER', Version='7958', Capabilities='<Capabilities SchemaVersion="1.0"><Property
Name="SSLState" Value="0"/></Capabilities>', Signature='http://BBK-SCCM-PRI.bbk2310.com/SMS_DP_SMSSIG$/Content_69547d2a-339f-4ac4-9523-238c79ff8a52.1.tar', ForestTrust='TRUE',]LOG]!><time="14:42:59.506+240"
date="03-17-2014" component="LocationServices" context="" type="1" thread="224" file="lsutils.cpp:415"> <![LOG[Calling back with locations for location request {144620BC-4BF0-4878-9554-F67D305ECCF8}]LOG]!><time="14:42:59.522+240"
date="03-17-2014" component="LocationServices" context="" type="1" thread="224" file="replylocationsendpoint.cpp:220">
Is there something wrong with the Distribution point on the Secondary Site server?
Please help…
Thanks..

Update:
I fixed the issue with the default XXX00002 package - "Configuration Manager Client Package", it will not deploy to the Secondary Site DP. I did that through "Update Distribution Points" option, and after a while the status was 100%.
However; the second issue is still unsolved...
Please help..

When converting over to HTTPS and PKI for clients, not all actions are available in configuration manager cpl

I'm not exactly sure which forum heading this should go under so if this isn't correct please let me know or move it on my behalf.
So I am trying to setup Internet Based Client Management in SCCM 2012 R2 and have come across a few articles on how to do so. I think I have mostly gotten it to work but I seem to be having a client issue when deploying new machines. My already
deployed servers seem to have picked up the PKI setting no problem. In the past when I would deploy a new windows client everything would be fine. When i converted over to PKI in my test environment I am now having issues when I go to deploy a
new windows client. I don't get all of the Actions listed in the Configuration Manager control panel. All I have are Discovery Data Collection, Machine Policy Retrieval and Eval, User Policy Retrieval and Eval, and Windows Installer Source list Update
Cycles, before all of them would populate no problem. I have let this machine sit here for several hours and nothing has changed yet. It does say PKI for client certificate. Sometimes when I would deploy new machines it would say NONE for
Client certificate. In my production environment it says self-signed. I have found if i uninstall the client and re-install the client it does populate all of the cycles but I don't understand why it is not working on deployment.
Ok so maybe not all the time that when i reinstall the client it fixes it. I just did an uninstall and reinstall on a test client and all it has under actions are machine and user policy cycles.
Does anyone have any ideas?

Hi,
I think SCCM client installed before the GPO applied, so you don't a certificate available when it is required.
You can export and import the certificate by using MDT integration, try this blog for PKI part:
How To: Build and Capture in Configuration Manager 2012 using HTTPS
And in addition, you can upload the log to your onedrive so you can share with us.
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