System Center Operations Manager 2007: Hotfix

Fix State Related Data Type Transform in OpsMgr 2007 SP1 RC

Sun, 09 Dec 2007 20:58:39 GMT

Courtesy of MSutara:

Operations Manager displays alerts, task results and other data thru different dialogs and views. Such are usually results of the transform applied to XML representation of said data types.

It came to my attention that transform used to generate output for state related data is broken (State data could be displayed as a part of diagnostic output, as the result of some task etc). Problem with transform is that it doesn’t allow display of the state change context when such is present for particular state change. (Remember state change context is usually the XML representation of data type which caused said state change in the first place). Another minor issue is also caused by somewhat ambiguous display of state changes where it is little confusing to recognize states of individual monitors contributing to the final health state of the instance of particular managed entity type.

Attached file provides the fix for said issue. It needs to be executed on Operations Manager database by database owner. It will update stored transforms with fixes necessary for proper display/functionality.

“Usual suspects:”

This fix is for Operations Manager 2007 SP1 RC only as later releases will be fixed and prior ones do not need it.

This posting is also provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. Use of included T-SQL script is subject to the terms specified at Microsoft plus is not supported thru any official CSS channel. If support is important, you need to wait for official release of Operations Manager 2007 SP1 RTM. Due to all these facts I strongly recommend TO TEST in pre-production environment as using this confers no rights in the case of any harm to your monitoring infrastructure. Please consider real carefully all these aspects and possibilities prior using attached file!

The MonitoringHost.exe Process on the RMS May Consume More than 2 Gigabytes of Memory

Mon, 26 Nov 2007 13:28:56 GMT

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;943706&sd=rss&spid=12584

Get the fix at: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/943706

Operations Manager 2007 SP1 (RC) - NEXT WEEK!

Thu, 01 Nov 2007 18:17:48 GMT

There will be two hotfix KB articles being released in conjunction with the OpsMgr07 Service Pack 1 Release Candidate. This will be required if multi-homing an SP1 RC (eventually SP1 RTM) agent to an Operations Manager 2007 original release management server. This fix needs to be installed on the OpsMgr original release management server. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/941557

This hotfix will also be present on the SP1 Release candidate images for the 120-day Eval edition for SP1 RC (Slipstreamed), together with the SP1 RC upgrade image in the SupportTools/Hotfix/Release folder : SystemCenterOpsMgr07-RTM-KB941557-X86-AMD64-ENU.MSI.

HOTFIX: High Memory Utilization by Health Services

Thu, 01 Nov 2007 17:50:54 GMT

When the Health Service (HealthService.exe) runs timed scripts in Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007, high memory usage may occur. This problem occurs when you use a System Center Operations Manager 2007 Management Pack that was converted from a Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 Management Pack. The Health Service restarts because the monitored threshold of this service is breached. http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/935896/en-us