Exchange and SQL OpsMgr Management Packs Updated

December 10, 2008 · Filed Under Operations Manager | 487 views

Updated Management Packs for Exchange Server 2007 and SQL Server were recently released for Operations Manager 2007. Check out the updates below as listed in the Management Pack documentation. As usual, download your Management Packs from the MP Catalog.

The following list contains the issues that are fixed in version 6.0.6461.0 of the Exchange Server 2007 Management Pack for System Center Operations Manager 2007:

Updated the display name of the top level folder in the Operations console to “Exchange Server 2007 (Converted)”.
Changed how the management pack monitors disks. Previously, disk monitoring rules lacked alert suppression. The following rules and monitors were disabled:
- Disk % Free Space low - Red(<10%)
- Disk % Free Space low - Yellow(<15%)
- Disk Free Megabytes low - Red(<20MB)
- Disk Free Megabytes low - Yellow(<40MB)

The following rules were added:

Disk Free Space Low Red Rule (by default alerts if any disk has less than 20MB free space)
Disk Free Space Low Yellow Rule (by default alerts if any disk has less than 40MB free space)
Disk Percentage Free Space Low Red Rule (by default alerts if any disk has less than 10% free space)
Disk Percentage Free Space Low Yellow Rule (by default alerts if any disk has less than 15% free disk space)

The new disk monitoring rules support alert suppression. It is also possible to use the Server Operating System Management Pack to monitor Exchange disk space, if desired. In that case, the above rules can be disabled.

SQL Server Management Pack version 6.0.6460.0 includes the following changes:

The DB discovery script no longer casts the values that correspond to “Database Size (MB) (Numeric)” and “Log Size (MB) (Numeric)” as INT, to avoid overflows exceptions within the script itself.
The DB discovery script now checks for possible overflow on the “Database Size (MB) (Numeric)” and “Log Size (MB) (Numeric)” values and prevents those overflows from occurring.
For the numeric properties on the database class we are limited to 2147483647 MB (~2047 TB). In the event that a DB or log file exceeds that size then the value will be set to the maximum possible value of 2147483647 to prevent overflows. In these instances the ”Database Size (MB) (String)” and “Log Size (MB) (String)” will support larger values.