With all the announcements at MMS 2010 this year, this little update got buried in the mix, but it’s out now!   The Cumulative Update 2 for SCOM 2007 R2 was released on 4/30/2010.  It is a fully cumulative update, in that it includes all updates in Cumulative update 1, check the release notes for details regarding Cross Plat updates.

Like all Cumulative updates, this one is best applied from the top –> down.  Apply to RMS, SQL DB, Import MP, MS, GS, Agents,  Consoles, Web consoles,  ACS servers and manually installed agents, in that order.  Like cumulative update 1, you must run this from an elevated command prompt “Run as Administrator”. 

So what got fixed?

The Network Devices State view does not display the device name.

The discovery process fails when a double-byte character is inserted into a string that is searched.

The availability reports that are exported as TIF files or as PDF files are truncated.

The property bags of WMIEventProvider module do not support the including or excluding of specific properties.

The color of the chart lines does not match the legend in the Web console in the Performance view.

When SQL Reporting Services is enabled in SCOM by using the United States Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) security, the datawarehouse encounters an InvalidOperationException error.

The monitoring host process does not start the workflows immediately when tasks are received.

The Operations Manager console crashes when you open multiple customized views in a new window.

The Allow Anonymous discovery property in the Internet Information Services (IIS) Management Pack is incorrect in the console.

When you run updates, a restart dialog box is shown before the files for the update are delivered.

The agent update packages are not deployed to the servers that have the Terminal Services Gateway (TS Gateway) role installed or that have the Remote Desktop Gateway (RD Gateway) role service installed.

Audit Collection Services stops collecting data if the Event Log service uses the automatic backup feature.

https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=61714687-668a-46e4-b127-ad8519594351

Check out this screenshot, I simply pointed to a location of log files, and searched for the word “error”.  Notice that all the logs that have the word error in them are displayed on on the left, and the exact line and verbiage is displayed on the right.  Take that F3 find!  Oh yeah, and Happy 10th Birthday Agent Ransack!

Identify data volume drivers: -  New Reports that help you determine where the data you’ve mined is coming from!

Monitor agent processor time: Monitor the OpsMgr Agent memory Utilization showing the total percentage of processor time.

Audit agent versions: Checks each installed agent and verifies against a desired agent version.

Detect agent architecture mismatch: 32bit agents installed on 64bit operating systems can result in garbage in the console and numerous errors. This detects if your 64bit systems are running 32bit agents.

Review OpsMgr performance data more easily:   Improved Performance views!

Improve your knowledge: More than 20 updated articles.

This is one of the best updates for SCOM 2007 R2!  It is a must for any SCOM 2007 R2 environment.

Full details are here - https://blogs.technet.com/momteam/archive/2010/02/19/opsmgr-2007-r2-mp-version-6-1-7599-0-is-released.aspx]]> https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/daviddixon/new-management-pack-for-system-center-configuration-manager-2007-sp2 Fri, 30 Oct 2009 07:50:18 GMT https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/daviddixon/2009/10/30/new-management-pack-for-system-center-configuration-manager-2007-sp2/ With the release of SP2 for System Center Configuration Manager 2007, there’s been an update to the management pack for System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2.

Here’s the feature summary from the product team -

Feature Summary
The System Center Configuration Manager 2007 SP2 Management Pack for Operations Manager 2007 R2 provides improved capabilities for Configuration Manager 2007 monitoring, including the following:

• Monitoring the starting and stopping of all Configuration Manager 2007 services, including critical dependent services like Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI), IIS Admin Service, World Wide Web Publishing Service, Windows Deployment Services Server, Trivial FTP Daemon, Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) and Microsoft SQL Server.
• Alerting the Configuration Manager 2007 administrator to critical Configuration Manager 2007 status messages.
• Monitoring backlogs of discovery data records (DDRs), software inventory, hardware inventory, status messages, state messages, and software metering on both primary site servers and management points.
• Monitoring outbox backlogs on site systems.
• Monitoring a component and site system role health.
• Monitoring collection evaluation, state message summarization, and site maintenance tasks, including site backup.
• Monitoring SMS Executive crash dumps.
• Monitoring general CPU, Memory, and Disk system resource usage.
• Monitoring processing rates.
• Monitoring the performance trends of many Configuration Manager performance counters by using views and reports.
• Product knowledge content for all alerts and processing rules.
• Detecting all Configuration Manager 2007 computers, classes, and computer groups.
• Configuration Manager 2007 views.
• Reports displaying performance, availability, and configuration of Configuration Manager 2007 server groups. These linked reports leverage the enhanced reporting of Systems Center Operations Manager 2007 for performance, configuration, and availability trends.
• Tasks for executing Configuration Manager 2007 Administrator console applications.
• Computer State view containing the health of all Configuration Manager 2007 server roles and the Configuration Manager 2007 Client.
• Site Hierarchy and Site State views for displaying the health of sites in a hierarchy and the hierarchy itself.
• Service Discovery of important Configuration Manager 2007 server and Configuration Manager 2007 client information.
• Topology diagram of the Configuration Manager 2007 site hierarchy.
• Configuration Manager 2007 configurable alerting on distributed program execution failure through Configuration Manager 2007 program properties.

The MP can be download internally to SCOM 2007 R2 or Here.

The updates to this version include -

From the download details:

“Feature Summary
The Operations Manager 2007 R2 Management Packs includes the following features:

• Local and Remote Monitoring of an Agent’s Health
  • Operations Manager agents monitor themselves for events and performance indicators that signal an issue with the agent’s health.
  • Management servers also maintain an external perspective of an agent’s health via the Health Service Watcher.
  • The ‘Agent Health State’ view provides a side-by-side dashboard of both perspectives on the agent.
• Optional, Automatic Agent Remediation Capabilities
  • If the Health Service Watcher determines that an agent is unhealthy, a series of diagnostics and recoveries can be enabled to further diagnose the problem and event take actions to attempt to fix the problem (e.g. Ping the server to see if it is completely offline, start a stopped agent, trigger a reinstall, etc.). Refer to the management pack guide for more details.
  • Agents are monitoring their own process to ensure that memory utilization is not sustained at unacceptable levels. If this condition is detected then the agent will automatically restart itself to force the freeing up of memory.
• Detection of Problems and Misconfigurations with Run As Accounts and Profiles
  • Checks are run on a regular basis to detect if any of the management group’s “Windows” type Run As Accounts have credentials which are about to expire. Alerts will be raised, and where possible this will be done in advance of the credentials expiring to avoid outages.
  • Alerts will be raised if any errors are encountered during the distribution of Run As Accounts.
• Monitoring of problems with Running Workflows in Management Packs
  • Numerous rules are provided to detect if workflows within management packs are failing. Examples of workflows include discoveries, rules, monitors, etc. Failures can range from bad configurations on the workflows themselves, script failures, permissions problems, etc.”

Get the latest management pack Here!

The MOM Team Blog has a new tool for OpsMgr 2007 R2.

“The OpsMgr 2007 R2 Sizing Helper is an interactive document designed to assist you with planning & sizing deployments of Operations Manager 2007 R2. It helps you plan the correct amount of infrastructure needed for a new OpsMgr R2 deployment, removing the uncertainties in making IT hardware purchases and optimizes cost. A typical recommendation will include minimum hardware specification for each server role, topology diagram and storage requirement.”

You can find the tool Here

I’ve included a small preview of the full table, but there are a ton of Features in Windows 7, so you’ll want to check the full article for the features important to you.  You can check out Paul’s Feature Table Here!

Windows 7 Product Editions Feature Table Comparison

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