Thanks to Stuart Renes for this interesting factoid on MOM 2005…

Many fixes to MOM 2005 require patches to the MOM agents themselves. This is done using a remote patch deployment utility, triggered from the MOM DAS server. After trying unsuccessfully to install several MOM 2005 patches (notably 922640, 926681 and 913812), we now have a fix (934507).

The problem that KB923507 fixes is that in processing the patches the MOM DAS attempts to retrieve the patch GUID (that can be later used to apply the patch). There is a revision number property that is queried to retrieve this info. That property can contain more than just the GUID for the patch. For example, it can also contain the GUIDs of patches that it supersedes or obsoletes. Prior to the fix 934507, the MOM DAS was calling the API to retrieve the patch GUID using a fixed buffer (and not taking into account that there could be more than one GUID stored), thus the "error more data" error condition was being generated. This is now handled correctly by dynamically allocating the buffer as needed.

So the morale of this story is that if you ever want to apply MOM 2005 hotfixes that involve updates to your MOM agents, you should first obtain and apply 934507 to all your MOM DAS servers. This will allow the application of multiple agent hotfixes to succeed.

Have fun learn MOM!! Check out www.systemcentertraining.com for great instructor training on MOM 2005 and Operations Manager 2007.

  

The System Center Operations Manager TechCenter re-launched today, Thursday, June 14, 2007.  The new look includes the top-level tabs Home, Library, Learn, Downloads, Support, and Community.  File-level redirects from the former location to the new location have also been been set up.

 

The new home of the System Center Operations Manager TechCenteris http://technet.microsoft.com/opsmgr/default.aspx. 

 

Have fun, learn Ops Mgr!! Attend the Ops Mgr training available at www.systemcentertraining.com.

 

If you are looking for the Dell MP for Ops Mgr 2007…. Good news!! It’s been released and you can find it at:

http://support.us.dell.com/support/downloads/download.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=gen&releaseid=R158716&formatcnt=1&libid=0&fileid=212055

 

Version 3.0 of the Dell Management Pack is compatible only with System Center Operations Manager 2007. It does not function with prior releases of the MOM product. Fixes and Enhancements included in the MP are:

1) Added support for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007

2) Enhanced health drill down model in Diagram views from overall Dell Hardware health to individual hardware components.

3) Includes support for the latest versions of Dell OpenManage Server Administrator v5.2 (including the enhanced Storage Management Service 2.2).

4) Supports monitoring of Dell printers using SNMPv2

 

Check out http://www.SystemCenterTraining.com for great, in-depth technical training on Ops Mgr 2007.

 

 

 

OpsMgr 2007 MOM 2005 Backward Compatibility MP Update

 

The updated MOM 2005 Backwards Compatibility MP version 6.0.5000.1 and System Center Internal Library MP version 6.0.5000.1 are now available online. Check it out at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=655cdd06-861e-4342-99b2-8a81e09f6546&DisplayLang=en.

 

If you are monitoring clusters, you likely won’t want to delay the import of this MP as it is reported to fix the Backward Compatibility Cluster discovery to address problems with converted MPs that monitor clustered Applications. I am hoping that this will now make the detection of clustered Exchange Servers easier.

Have fun, learn Ops Mgr.  Check out our instructor led training offerings at www.systemcentertraining.com.

The day has come for Microsoft to embrace non-Windows monitoring in Operations Manager!! Check out the news on the Engyro acquisition at

http://www.engyro.com.

 

Have fun, learn OpsMgr!!