Orchestrator 2012 vSphere Integration Pack Exception

We are using System Center Orchestrator 2012 with the vSphere Integration Pack. For reference, we are running vSphere 5. All of the runbook activities are working except the "Get VM List" activity. Any time we attempt to open the properties page or set the
configuration, we receive the following error.
Details: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
Exception: IntegrationPackException
Target site: ServiceBase.Design
Stack trace:
at
Microsoft.SystemCenter.Orchestrator.VIQIK.ServiceBase.Design(IActivityDesigner designer)
Has anyone else experienced this issue? I would like to know if there is a fix or workaround available. Thank you.

Hello Nifford,
This forum is for System Center Configuration Manager(SCCM) related issues. For questions about System Center Orchestrator, please use the following Forums, which would be the best resource in your scenario.
System Center Orchestrator Forums
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/category/systemcenterorchestrator
Thanks,
Yog Li
TechNet Community Support

Similar Messages

VSphere Integration Pack Exception (Orchestrator 2012 R2)

I'm having trouble getting Orchestrator to integrate with vSphere. I have entered the connection information and am attempting to add vSphere actions to my runbook, but when I attempt to add
any actions I get the following nondescript error in the Runbook designer:
Error
Details: The underlying connection was closed: An unexpected error occurred on a receive.
Exception: IntegrationPackException
Target site: ServiceBase.Design
Stack trace: at
Microsoft.SystemCenter.Orchestrator.VIQIK.ServiceBase.Design(IActivityDesigner designer)

Hi,
Is the vSphere-Server reachable for the system running Runbook Designer with the connection configuration you entered in Options / VMware vSphere (Server, SSL, Port)?
Regards,
Stefan
www.sc-orchestrator.eu ,
Blog sc-orchestrator.eu

Integration Pack for SharePoint

I am having an issue with the Integration Pack for SharePoint. Here is my environment:
Windows Server 2012 R2
Microsoft SQL Server 2012 SP1
System Center 2012 R2 Orchestrator
System Center Integration Pack for SharePoint (Version 7.2.117.0)
I am able to register and deploy the integration pack; however, when I try to use an Activity (Monitor List Items) the Properties Item Selection for Configuration is blank. I've included a screenshot:
Has anyone else experienced this issue?

I've tried to uninstall and reinstall the integration pack but still the problem still exists.

System Center Orchestrator 2012 Integration Pack for Lync Server 2013 release Date?

Hi,
I want to know about System Center Orchestrator 2012 Integration Pack for Lync Server 2013 release Date?
or Microsoft has already released it?
Amit Sharma

Hi,
I believe it will be around Q4. At the moment there isn't any updates on the release dates yet. So I suggest you to wait patiently.
Guowen Su
Cisco Certified Network Associate
Cisco Certified Internetwork professional - MPLS
Certified Information Systems Security Professional
Microsoft Partner Network 2011
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator:Security
Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer: Security
Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist: Windows Server 2008 Active Directory, Configuration
Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist: Windows Server 2008 Network Infrastructure, Configuration
Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist: Windows Server 2008 Applications Infrastructure, Configuration
Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist: Windows 7, Configuring
Microsoft Certified IT Professional: Enterprise Administrator
Microsoft Certified IT Professional: Server Administrator
Certified Ethical Hacker
Computer Hacking Forensics Investigator
Certified Sonicwall Security Administrator
Microsoft Geeks

VMWare Integration Pack SOAP Problems when trying to Runbook Tester

All,
I am hoping somebody out there can give me some help and hopefully a resolution to my problem.
For several weeks now, I have been successfully using the VMware Integration Pack in Orchestrator. However, as I tried to make my Runbook's more user friendly by replacing fields with variables I encountered a problem.
When I now try to run my Runbook via the Runbook Tester when I start to step through I get the following error when I either try to step through the Clone Windows VM or left click on the Icon. (Actually this error occurs for all Integration Pack Objects).
---- THE ERROR BELOW ----
Details:
Required parameter password is missing
while parsing call information for method Login at line 1, column 218
while parsing SOAP body at line 1, column 207
while parsing SOAP envelope at line 1, column 38
while parsing HTTP request for method login an object of type vim.SessionManager at line 1, column 0
Exception: IntegrationPackException Target site: ServiceBase.Design
Stack trace at
Microsoft.SystemCenter.Orchestrator.VIQIK.ServiceBase.Design(IActivityDesigner designer)
---- End Of Error--------------
So steps to resolve this issue so far.
1- Remove and redeploy IP Pack
2 - Remove Orchestrator Database and Redeploy Database
3 - Uninstall and re-install Orchestrator
4 - Restart Servers
The problem is that when you actually look at the property pages in the Runbook Designer it talks correctly to the VSphere Server, and you can alter them, but it still won't run.
The firewall is off, and the VI Client talks to the VCentre server.
And I have looked in the Runbook Tester logs but it doesn't seem to show any errors.
So can anybody shine a light on where to look for the problem or how to debug it.
Cheers
Alixx

Hi Frank,
you should be able to use Variables and Published Data in the Integration Pack for VMWare vSphere.
If you use a Variable or Published Data in the connection setting you experience an error while designing the Runbook. Use here the Name (one Name) of the connection setting you specified for VMWare vSphere.
Make sure, you use the up-to-date version of this IP, until today:
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=40874
Regards,
Stefan
www.sc-orchestrator.eu ,
Blog sc-orchestrator.eu

SCORCH Administration Integration Pack Issue

I am using the SCORCH integration pack to monitor a few of the runbooks in our production environment. I am running from our pre-prod.
This is exactly what I'm doing: http://opalis.wordpress.com/2012/05/02/monitoring-the-monitor-runbooks/
It was working fine for a couple months, however it seems to have stopped and I'm having trouble figuring it out. When the activities run, they error out with the following:
Runbooks Not Found in Folder:
Exception: Exception
Target site: SCOrch.getAllRunbooksInFolder
Stack trace:
at OrchestratorInterop.SCOrch.getAllRunbooksInFolder(OrchestratorContext sco, String FolderPath) in c:\Projects\TFS\scorch\Orchestrator\Interop\SCOrch.cs:line 823
at OrchestratorIP.Activities.GetAllRunbooksInFolder.Execute(IActivityRequest request, IActivityResponse response) in c:\Projects\TFS\scorch\Orchestrator\OrchestratorIP\Activities\GetAllRunbooksInFolder.cs:line 41
I know I have the folder name correct - it worked before and nothing has changed. Also, there is no "c:\Projects..." path on the Orchestrator servers so I'm not sure where that log is supposed to be.
- Slow is smooth and smooth is fast.

Hi,
Please refer to the link below:
Listing Services Running as a User Account
http://blog.scottlowe.org/2006/07/17/listing-services-running-as-a-user-account/
Make sure that the account password has been updated on all relative services listed by the command.
Note: Microsoft provides third-party contact information to help you find technical support. This contact information may change without notice. Microsoft does not guarantee the accuracy of this third-party contact information.
We
are trying to better understand customer views on social support experience, so your participation in this
interview project would be greatly appreciated if you have time.
Thanks for helping make community forums a great place.

SSRS 2012 (SP Integrated) report on SP 2013 PerformancePoint Dashboard: when too many filter items selected together report does not update anymore!

I am having a situation with SSRS 2012 (SP-integrated) report rendered on SP 2013 PerformancePoint Dashboard using linked PerformancePoint (PP) filters.
The report works fine as long as too many PP filter items are not selected at the same time. When gradually selecting more items from the filter, the report updates itself until more than a sepecific numer of filter items are selected - the report simply
does not update itself anymore. This "specific number of filter items", when hit, generates the following error in ULS:
An exception occurred while rendering a Web control. The following diagnostic information might help to determine the cause of this problem: System.UriFormatException: Invalid URI: The hostname could not be parsed.
at System.Uri.CreateThis(String uri, Boolean dontEscape, UriKind uriKind)
at System.UriBuilder..ctor(String uri)
at Microsoft.PerformancePoint.Scorecards.ServerRendering.ReportViewControl.ReportUrl(SqlReportViewData sqlReportViewData)
at Microsoft.PerformancePoint.Scorecards.ServerRendering.ReportViewControl.RenderSqlReport(TextWriter writer, ReportView sqlReportView)
at Microsoft.PerformancePoint.Scorecards.ServerRendering.ReportViewControl.RenderReportViewControl(HtmlTextWriter writer, ReportView rv) PerformancePoint Services error code 20700.
I already know that the cause of the issue is in the length of the query (perhapse RDL or MDX) that the browser is supposed to pass on to the instance of SSAS.
Some people had suggested a workaround that was suitable for older versions or non-integrated SSRS (see here: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/sqlserver/en-US/cb6ede72-6ed1-4379-9d3c-847c11b75b32/report-manager-operation-cannot-run-due-to-current-state-of-the-object).
Knowing this, have already done the changes suggested (adding the lines suggested to SP's web.config for Reporting and the web.config of the site on which report is rendred) at no avail, just to make sure.
I have rednered the same report on the same dashboard using SSRS filters and there is no problem; it just works fine. This has to be a bug in PP that is causing this.
Has anyone had the same problem with SSRS 2012 (SP-integrated) report rendered on SP 2013 PP dashboard using PP filter? Any fixes or workarounds?
thnx!

Hello everybody.
I confirm the issue in Service Pack 1 Release 2.
Poor workaround is to remove the repeated infromation from the member keys (in SSAS they can be really long).
The issue seems to be specific to SSRS: Excel Services works well with the same filter.
Sergey Vdovin

Orchestrator 2012 R2 on SQL 2012 SP1 Availability Group

Hi all,
I've recently setup a new install of SCOrch 2012 R2 on a SQL 2012 SP1 Availability Group. Everything went smooth and appears to be functioning correctly up until a failover occurs (manual or automatic). Once there is a failover between database
nodes, the Orchestrator servers (Mgmt and Runbook) lose connectivity to the database and will not reconnect until the services are restarted and then they work again.
Has anyone setup Orchestrator on an Availability Group and are you seeing similar issues from a failover?
Thanks!
Jon

Hi Jon,
has each member of the availability group the same master key to read encrypted data like passwords and the license code?
https://blog.uvm.edu/jgm/2013/05/28/sql-2012-tde-and-availability-groups/
Btw, if you still interested in a SAP IP:
http://www.sc-orchestrator.eu/index.php/integration-packs/integration-pack-fuer-sap-vip4sap
Regards,
Stefan
www.sc-orchestrator.eu ,
Blog sc-orchestrator.eu

Installation of SCOM 2012 R2 with Orchestrator 2012 SP1 already installed

I'm new here and found this set up.
SCOM 2012 SP1 that was mis-installed badly. No DW, no Data Read or write account used. SPN's missing etc. Nothing is working on the SCOM Server. It's not connected to any other parts of System Center.
Orchestrator 2012 SP1 installed and seems to be working fine.
I know that I'm suppose to upgrade Orchestrator to R2 before upgrading SCOM 2012 to R2. But, I need to install SCOM 2012 R2 right now to ensure monitoring is in place. The question I have is can I install a fresh SCOM 2012 R2 and then go back and upgrade
Orchestrator to R2 or do I have to upgrade Orchestrator 2012 to R2 before I install the new SCOM 2012 R2?

Hi Bigredchief,
Yes, it's recommended by Microsoft to update the Orchestrator first and then SCOM.
Look at the diagram between SC components here:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/13188.system-center-2012-integration-guide.aspx
and for Orchestrator here:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/13185.system-center-2012-integration-guide-orchestrator.aspx
It’s clear visible from diagrams that SCOM monitors the Orchestrator by Management Pack and Orchestrator is connected to SCOM by Integration pack through Operations Manager SDK connection. The second link as well describes the integration between these 2
components of SC (see #5.3).
You should analyse your System Center components integration, and check if any Orchestrator runbooks communicate to SCOM. In general it will be 2 risk components in such upgrade (SCOM and then Orchestrator) in my opinion - not supported officially by MS
in case of any issues, and stopped working SCOM connected runbooks.
Natalya

Orchestrator security of Integration configuration accounts

I have just installed Orchestrator 2012 R2 and I am planning to use the application to carry out several activities including general maintanance tasks as well as to control the Delegation of security permissions.
I have 2 teams of people that are required to carry out the different tasks
The first team need to configure the general mainenance tasks and will require an AD account that that as readonly or limited AD permissions.
The second team need to configure a run book to delegate security permissions for Domain Admin accounts and so needs full Domain Admin permissions.
Is there a way that I can allow both teams to have the Active Directory Integration Pack without first team being able to use the high privilege credentials.

Only if you have a separate Orchestrator instance for each team. Integration Pack permissions are common to all Runbook Designer users.

SCCM 2012 R2 IP for Orchestrator 2012

Hi,
We have Orchestrator 2012 (7.0.1154.0) installed, and I would like to connect it to our SCCM 2012 R2 (5.0.7958.1303) installation with an integration pack.
Does anyone know if I can connect a non-R2 Orchestrator to an R2 SCCM and if so, which IP I should use.
I wish I could upgrade my SC'Orch to R2 but sadly we have some old SharePoint 2007 third-party IP's which do not work with R2, so I don't think that is an option.
Your advice will be greatly appreciated.
Tom

Hi,
you can register and deploy the System Center2012 R2 Integration Pack for SCCM, available here: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=39622&WT.mc
System Center 2012 Service Pack 1 - Orchestrator Component Add-ons and Extensions are available here:
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=34611
Regards,
Stefan
www.sc-orchestrator.eu ,
Blog sc-orchestrator.eu

Integration pack to create user from template

Does anybody know if the Orchestrator 2012 Sp1 active directory integration pack has a way to create user from a template?
I believe there is a create user but not from a template.
Thanks
Lance
Thanks Lance

Hi Lance,
you are right. There's no "Create User from template" or "Copy User" Activity in the Integration pack for Active Directory in System Center SP1 or R2.
Perhaps, you can use "Get User" to get some settings from the template and subscribe the results to "Create User" Activity.
Regards,
Stefan
www.sc-orchestrator.eu ,
Blog sc-orchestrator.eu

Integration Pack Connector settings wiped and replaced

Greetings all,
I've just experienced a rather concerning issue and have hit a bit of a dead-end trying to identify the root cause.
We have Orchestrator 2012 R2 with several 3rd party integration packs from codeplex such as ones for Sharepoint, AD, Config Manager etc.
Sharepoint IP - http://orchestrator.codeplex.com/releases/view/75877
The other night several runbooks stopped working and we found that ALL of the Integration Pack configuration settings for our SharePoint IP had been completely wiped and two completely unknown entries configured there instead.
From what I can tell, "ybusa.net" refers to YellowBook, which isn't even remotely related to us. The username and Sharepoint site URL are also completely unknown to us. The closest I reference I can find is that Yellowbook is mentioned a few times
as a reference customer for Opalis, and this codeplex post - http://scorch.codeplex.com/discussions/455038
I tried searching the sourcecode of the Sharepoint integration pack but could find no reference to ybusa or YellowBook.
The best guess I can come up with is that an integration pack we are using was written by someone while they were working for Yellowbook, and somehow there is a bit of "default" configuration data buried in the IP or a common binary somewhere that
was triggered somehow and caused this to happen.
It was not the only IP that had configuration settings lost and replaced with strange "default" entries, but not all of the IP's were affected (e.g. official Microsoft ones). So I was wondering if there is a connection between the author of the
impacted IP's and YellowBook.
We were able to restore the database to a point just before the change happened and everything is now back to normal, but as we can find no trigger, cause or connection to why it happened at all, this is now making us rather nervous about the fact it may
happen again.
We've been using these same IP's for quite some time now (>6 months) and there also have been no updates of SCORCH or any Integration packs performed in quite some time.
Any thoughts or suggestions that might help solve this mystery would be most welcome.
Regards,
Scott.

We have a answer - almost forgot to post a follow up about what happened.
The most important thing I learned from this is that importing Configuration configurations will entirely replace any config data that is already present for an Integration Pack.
The culprit was in fact the import of the "SC2012 Solution Runbook Examples" which also applies settings across several Integration Packs.
http://orchestrator.codeplex.com/releases/view/86195
Digging through that code you can see the references to YellowBook.
A colleague has been testing export and import of his own runbooks (which I had checked and cleared as OK), but somewhere along the way he selected the Solutions one. At the time he didn't realise as it imported into a test sub folder that was being frequently
deleted and re-created. He has now been banished to the DEV environment pending a rigorous re-education program :)
So from this I now know:
We have a pretty good DR capability for Orchestrator
Importing has "Global Configurations" enabled by default and will REPLACE all existing config data for matching IPs. The documentation guides I've written for the people here say to unselect the import of Global configurations. That unfortunately
is no protection against Orchestrators desire to make it enabled by default
even more about the Orchestrator DB schema and how to follow the internal object GUIDs to find all the connections they have to each other
Orchestrator still has many many quirks that really need Microsoft to spend some time improving on
Thank you all for your feedback and suggestions.

Downgrade an Integration Pack

I need to downgrade an Integration Pack in my Orchestrator environment.
Is there a way to do that or is ist impossible?
Everytime I try it, I get the following Error.
2014\06\12 07:49:32.350 [0x80004005] <E> Registration of the Integration Pack System Center Integration Pack for System Center 2012 Configuration Manager with the Orchestrator Management Server failed.
Thanks for Help

Hi,
you must uninstall the Integration Pack with Control Panel on the Management Server before you can register the old/new version.
Regards,
Stefan
www.sc-orchestrator.eu ,
Blog sc-orchestrator.eu

The problem with forecast reports in SCOM 2012 after integration with VMM 2012

Hello.
I have problem with forecast reports in SCOM 2012 after integration with VMM 2012. All other reports (not forecasting) works fine. For example, report “Host Group Forecasting” don’t work. The report is generated, but I have error: “Subreport
could not be shown”. I find only errors in SQL Server Reporting logs like this:
library!ReportServer_0-13!1758!06/26/2012-18:26:23:: i INFO: RenderForNewSession('/Microsoft.SystemCenter.VirtualMachineManager.2012.Reports/Microsoft.SystemCenter.VirtualMachineManager.2012.Report.ForecastHostGroup')
processing!ReportServer_0-13!1758!06/26/2012-18:26:28:: e ERROR: Throwing Microsoft.ReportingServices.ReportProcessing.ReportProcessingException: , Microsoft.ReportingServices.ReportProcessing.ReportProcessingException: Не удалось выполнить
запрос для набора данных "DiskSpaceUsageForecasting". ---> Microsoft.AnalysisServices.AdomdClient.AdomdErrorResponseException: Execution of the managed stored procedure GetTimeSeriesForecast failed with the following error: Exception has been thrown by
the target of an invocation..
Query (5, 58) Parser: The syntax for '6' is incorrect.
   at Microsoft.AnalysisServices.AdomdClient.AdomdConnection.XmlaClientProvider.Microsoft.AnalysisServices.AdomdClient.IExecuteProvider.ExecuteTabular(CommandBehavior behavior, ICommandContentProvider contentProvider,
AdomdPropertyCollection commandProperties, IDataParameterCollection parameters)
   at Microsoft.AnalysisServices.AdomdClient.AdomdCommand.ExecuteReader(CommandBehavior behavior)
   at Microsoft.AnalysisServices.AdomdClient.AdomdCommand.System.Data.IDbCommand.ExecuteReader(CommandBehavior behavior)
   at Microsoft.ReportingServices.DataExtensions.AdoMdCommand.ExecuteReader(CommandBehavior behavior)
   at Microsoft.ReportingServices.OnDemandProcessing.RuntimeDataSet.RunEmbeddedQuery(Boolean& readerExtensionsSupported, Boolean& readerFieldProperties, List`1 queryParams, Object[] paramValues)
   --- End of inner exception stack trace ---;
The Russian string “Не удалось
выполнить запрос для набора данных "DiskSpaceUsageForecasting"” is translated to “Could not execute query for data set "DiskSpaceUsageForecasting"”.
I have clean installation SCOM 2012 RU1, VMM 2012 RU1. Integration SCOM with VMM work fine.
SQL collation for all SQL DB instances (SCOM and VMM and SCOM reporting) – “SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS”
SQL Analysis service: SQL collation – “Latin1_General” ; language for the server – English (United States)
I think the problem in regional settings. By my opinion there are two possible mistakes:
SQL collation for all SQL DB instances. May be need use “Latin1_General_CI_AS”
as provided by
http://blogs.technet.com/b/momteam/archive/2012/05/25/clarification-on-sql-server-collation-requirements-for-system-center-2012.aspx
Need change regional setting. Question is for what (OS regional setting, SQL Analysis service settings,…) ?

Error: Subreport could not be shown
Opening a report for Client Security might result in the following error being displayed in one or more areas of the report: "Error: Subreport could not be shown."
Background
There are two possible reasons for this error:
1. Wrong location   The reporting server is pointing to the wrong computer running SQL Server or a SQL Server instance.
2. Insufficient permissions   The account configured (in SQL Server Reporting Services) to connect to the reporting database does not have appropriate permissions for the database.
Solution
To determine which reason is causing the error, attempt to directly open the subreport reporting the error, by clicking the name of the subreport.
If the reporting server is pointing to a wrong location, the report displays an error similar to the following:
Error message
An error has occurred during report processing.
Cannot create a connection to data source 'SystemCenterReporting'. Cannot open database "SystemCenterReporting" requested by the login. The login failed. Login failed for user username.
To verify the correct SQL Server computer and instance path
In Report Manager, navigate to the report generating the error and click the Properties tab.
Click Data Sources and under a Shared data source, note the path.
Open the reporting Web site. If you chose the default virtual directory for reports, the URL is: http://hostname/Reports/
If you chose to secure the viewing of reports with HTTPS, the URL is: https://hostname/Reports/
Click SCDW.
In the Connection type list, ensure that Microsoft SQL Server is selected.
In the Connection string box, ensure that the correct SQL Server computer and instance name are entered.
Note:
A period (.) denotes the local computer.
If the account has insufficient permissions, the report displays an error similar to the following:
Error message
An error has occurred during report processing. (rsProcessingAborted) Query execution failed for data set 'DSDashboardComputersTrend'. (rsErrorExecutingCommand) EXECUTE permission denied on object 'prSAS_UX_DashboardComputersTrend', database 'SystemCenterReporting',
schema 'dbo'.
To determine if you are experiencing the SQL Server permissions issue
Open the reporting Web site. If you chose the default virtual directory for reports, the URL is:http://hostname/Reportserver/
If you chose to secure the viewing of reports with HTTPS, the URL is:https://hostname/Reportserver/
Click Microsoft Operations Manager Reporting, click Microsoft Forefront Client Security, and scroll to DashboardComputersTrend.
Click DashboardComputersTrend.
If you are experiencing a SQL Server permissions issue, an error similar to the preceding error appears.
To grant permissions to the SQL Server computer
1. In Report Manager, click SCDW and note the account in the Connect using section. This is the account under which the database is contacted.
2. On the server with the System Center Reporting database, start SQL Server Management Studio.
3. In the tree, expand Security, and then expand Logins. Do one of the following:
If the user account is listed, right-click the account, click Properties, and then go to step 5.
If the user account is not listed, right-click Logins and choose New Login.
4. In the Login name box, enter the user account (domain\username).
5. In the Login Properties dialog box, click User Mapping, and then under Users mapped to this login, select the System Center Reporting check box.
6. Under Database role membership for: System Center Reporting, select the db_owner check box, and then click OK.
Thanks,
Yog Li
TechNet Community Support

Orchestrator 2012 vSphere Integration Pack Exception

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for