Nouveau Management Pack Base Operating System

Un nouveau Management Pack pour les serveurs Windows est disponible depuis quelques jours, c’est un petit événement car la dernière version date de presque 1 an.

Disponible ICI : http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=3529D233-5E3E-4B51-8F66-5D6F27005EC3&displaylang=en&displaylang=en

Le MP Base OS supporte les OS suivants :

• Microsoft Windows Server 2008
• Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2
• Microsoft Windows Server 2003
• Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2
• Microsoft Windows 2000 Server

Ce Management Pack ajoute donc le support de Windows 2008 R2 , le monitoring de la fragmentation pour Windows 2008 et Windows 2003 , il optimise les remontés des événements, corrige quelques bugs , améliore les performances des règles et l’utilisation des classes.

Voici les détails :

• Support for Windows Server 2008 R2, including new classes to represent Windows Server 2008 R2 systems specifically.
• The intervals for some discoveries have been changed to reduce CPU usage. For details, see Objects the Windows Server Operating System Management Pack Discovers.
• Added Logical Disk Fragmentation Level monitors for Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008.
• Disabled the following rules and monitors for Windows Server 2008 because the events needed are in Windows Server 2003 only.
  • Duplicate computer name was detected
  • Windows Activation State
  • Disk Group Failed
  • Disk Group Auto Import Failed
  • Volume Not Started
  • Run WMIAdap
• Fixed the summary details for the Performance History (Percent Processor Time) report to indicate that the object type is Windows Server 2003 operating system rather than Windows Server 2003 processor.
• Fixed the Performance History (Percent Interrupt Time) report to use a rule that targets the operating system rather than the processor.
• Changed the data source for discoveries from System.Scheduler to System.Discovery.Scheduler to avoid performance issues.
• Changed the Logical Disk Availability monitor to use a Run As profile with administrative privileges to enable it to run in a low-privilege environment.
• Modified logical disk discovery to exclude mount points, because numerous rules use performance counters that are not applicable to mount points.
• Fixed an issue in which an alert could be generated for Windows Activation too early.
• Addressed an issue that was causing some discoveries to not show up correctly in the authoring section of the console.
• Improved the product knowledge for the alert generated by the “A Service is Mis-configured” rule.
• Fixed issue in which logical disk health check could have performance problems when run against clustered servers.
• Fixed links to views in product knowledge articles.
• Added Active Alerts views for Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008.
• Added retry logic to the "Probe Module: Is Feature Installed" module to avoid failures due to periodic time-outs.
• Added a new integer property named "Size (MBytes) (Numeric)" to the Logical Disk class and updated the existing property "Size (Bytes) (String)" to clarify that it is a string. The new property can now be used in formulas and views as expected.