SQL MP 6.3.173.0 SPN monitor

There is a new SPN monitor in 6.3.173, but it's throwing tons of false positives for us. Is anyone else seeing false positives for the monitor called "Service Principal Name Configuration Status" ?
"Fear disturbs your concentration"

Hi,
the MP is a bit "BLIND" here.....
it looks for the right SPNs but is unable to detect that a SQL-Server which runs as NT AUTHORITY\NETWORKSERVICE is the right one for SPN FQDN.
So it sees 2 different names and complains. When SQL runs as Domain Account this logic runs perfect but for Local System and Networkservice the Script just makes shit....
Disable the rule for those SQL-Servers until they fix it in a newer MP-Verison.
Greetings
Joerg
I'm still seeing this issue as of SCOM2012R2, UR2, SQL MP 6.4.1.0. The machines that are getting the error do indeed have an SPN set (and query able) - but the common denominator is that they are running as Local System. Can we confirm this is still a bug?
GetSQL2008SPNState.vbs : The Query 'SELECT ProtocolName FROM ServerNetworkProtocol where Enabled = true and InstanceName = 'MSSQLSERVER'' did not return any valid instances. Please check to see if this is a valid WMI Query.. Invalid class"

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