What's new with SCOM Management Packs?!
Published Apr 12 2021 01:11 AM 10.2K Views
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About a year ago, we conducted a survey and requested feedback on UserVoice about management pack for SCOM. Based on all the feedback that we received and constant input from Microsoft support, SCOM PG prioritized those requests, valued its outcomes, and planned few activities.

 

  • One activity was reviving old but important old MPs which are extensively used by customers, but they lacked updates. Example: Windows Cluster, Exchange, HyperV.
  • Another activity was to prevent customers using multiple MPs for different versions of a single workload by transitioning to Version agnostic MP. Example: Windows OS, DPM, ADCS.
  • Most importantly, develop MPs for newer 1P Microsoft. Example: M365, AzStackHCI

 

Looking at the above plan, we updated and released below Management Packs over the past few months. Additionally, work is in progress for Management Pack on monitoring Microsoft 365, Azure Stack HCI and many more. If you are want to be part of the early testers of these MPs, please write to us at systemcenterfeedback@microsoft.com

 

MP Name

Link

Version

MP Name in Catalog

Change details

S2D

100782

1.0.47.1

Storage Spaces Direct 2016+

Fixed multiple cookdown and performance issues.

DPM

56560

5.0.1401.2

Data Protection Manager 2016 and above

Added DPM Deduplication Management pack and fixed DPM executive summary issue.

ADCS

56671

10.0.0.1

Active Directory Certification Services 2016 and above

Fixed TLS 1.0 issue with Topology discovery and published the MP as version agnostic for Windows Server 2016 and above.

MP Recommendation

NA

10.19.10304.1

Management Pack Recommendations

Added Dell EMC Server lightweight discovery to MP recommendations.

Cluster 2012 MP

2268

10.0.6.6

Windows Server Cluster

Removed v. 10.0.6.0, added language support for v. 10.0.6.6.

Win OS (2012 R2 and Earlier)

9296

6.0.7326.0

Core OS

“Volume Name” property discovery issue has fixed for Logical Disks.

Win OS (2016 and above)

54303

10.1.0.5

Core OS 2016 and above

·       Non-physical NIC’s discovery issue has fixed in Windows Server 2016 and above Network Adaptor discovery.

·       Display strings are updated from “2016 and 1709+” to “2016 and above”

ADRMS (2016 and above)

55655

10.0.0.1

Active Directory Rights Management Services 2016 and above

The MP has been verified against ADRMS for Windows Server 2016 and above operating systems and branded as version agnostics.

Azure

50013

1.8.0.5

Microsoft Azure

Multiple issues fixed.

 

We also recognize the need to service Management Pack on a regular basis and, given the plethora of monitoring workloads SCOM caters to, we plan to build a robust and agile way of improving MPs. Getting constant inputs from customers, community and MVPs have immensely given us the energy to push our efforts in the right direction and we greatly appreciate that. We look forward to suggestions in delivering, developing, and improving MPs on a faster basis. After all, change should always be constant.

 

Feel free to share your comments in the below section and you can write to us at systemcenterfeedback@microsoft.com too.

 

5 Comments
Copper Contributor

Thanks for the update!!  Many of us still use SCOM on a daily basis and very much appreciate the renewed focus on keeping management packs current.  Any plans to update the Configuration Manager management pack?  This one is quite outdated and really could use an update to work with some of the newer current branch features.

Copper Contributor

Great to hear. And how is it going with the idea introduced some time ago to make MPs version agnostic?

Copper Contributor

nice to hear that SCOM isn't dead yet ;)

as posted from SFOOTNOTHIN some updates for the following MPs would be great:

- SCCM!

- AppV

- DNS

- Active Directory Services

- Exchange!

- IIS

- Server + Client OS

- Cluster

- WSUS

- SharePoint!

 

all these core-features and i think, no one is knowing them better than microsoft itself ;)

Copper Contributor

Hello , Any availability date for the new m365 MP ? It was foreseen for April/May, but I didn't see any announcement's .

 

Thanks

Copper Contributor

Hi!

Emailing systemcenterfeedback@microsoft.com only returns a delivery error informing that incoming email to that address is restricted to internal addresses. 

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