How to Monitor XenMobile Servers through SCOM

Citrix added IT infrastructure monitoring through SNMP in XenMobile Server 10.8. For details, see SNMP monitoring. You can use various monitoring applications that support SNMP monitoring. This section discusses how to use SCOM for monitoring your XenMobile Server nodes. SCOM is a part of the...

Data Warehouse Permission issues

Cause MP Version 8 uses dataset rules to collect host security profiles and snapshots. When a collector is installed on an agent, there is no issue. The data is forwarded to Management Server and written to DW under the DW account. When a collector runs on a Management Server which is our use cas...

Enterprise Plus license is required error on dashboards and reports

Cause Veeam MP license is synchronized to the Data Warehouse then reports load this information. If license is invalid in the Data Warehouse due to Synchronization server having issue this error will occur. Solution 1. Open SCOM Operations Manager Console. 2. Select Discovered Inventory 3. Filter...

Error: "StoreFront Store Service Probe Failed" While Using Citrix SCOM Management Pack for StoreFront

While using the Citrix SCOM Management Pack for StoreFront MPSF, you might come across an error, StoreFront Store Service Probe failed, that triggers an alert in the SCOM Console. Let’s troubleshoot and understand the possible causes and solutions for this error. Possible reasons for this issue...

StoreFront upgrade fails if PriviledgedService and MPSFagent (SCOM) is running

If the Citrix SCOM Management Pack Agent service is installed on the StoreFront server, StoreFront cannot upgrade. To work around this issue, disable the SCOM service before attempting the StoreFront upgrade. Note : This issue is not applicable to StoreFront 3.11 and higher. These services do not...

January 26, 2017—KB 3216755 (OS Build 14393.726)

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Update Rollup 9 for System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager

Update Rollup 9 for System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager Introduction This article describes the issues that are fixed in Update Rollup 9 for Microsoft System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager. There are three updates available for System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager: one...

Cannot read event log Veeam MP – Management Servers

Challenge Error accessing event log on SCOM Management servers - Error 31551, 31552 in Event logs. Cause Starting in Veeam Management Pack for Microsoft System Center version 8, Dataset rules are used to collect host security profiles and snapshots. When a collector is installed on an agent, no...

Cumulative update for Windows 10: October 11, 2016

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October 2016 security monthly quality rollup for Windows Server 2012

October 2016 security monthly quality rollup for Windows Server 2012 Summary This security updates includes improvements and fixes from an update that was shipped earlier, 3185280. To learn more about the non-security improvements and fixes in this update, see the September 20, 2016 — 3185280...

MS16-126: Description of the security update for Microsoft Internet Messaging API: October 11, 2016

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CIM Patch for Veeam MP v.7

Challenge After upgrading to v.7, an unreasonable number of the following alerts are visible in SCOM: "Veeam VMware Collector: Failed to gather Host hardware data via CIM" Cause To optimize CIM collection, asynchronous polling method was introduced in Veeam MP 7. If in response to Veeam query onl...

No VM names for Hyper-V in SCOM

Challenge The Hyper-V topology is discovered correctly, however, the Display Names of Virtual Machines are listed as their VM IDs. Example: Additionally, error events 3603 are logged in the OperationsManager event log on the Hyper-V server: VMDiscovery.js : 'vmid' is null or not an object error...

Monitoring of vSphere 4.x fails with Veeam MP v7

Challenge Though everything is configured correctly and you have successfully added vCenter 4.x or standalone ESX 4.x to Veeam Extensions as a Monitoring target, no data is shown in SCOM and you can see "Veeam VMware Collector: VMware connection is unavailable" alerts . Additionally, the followin...

SCOM console crashes when opening widget personalization dialog

Challenge When opening the Personalization dialog for any State View widget, the widget appears empty, and the Operations Manager Console crashes Cause There is a specific new widget declaration which can cause issues while loading other widgets. Solution Download Veeam Widget Library MP 7.0.0.18...

Cannot uninstall Veeam MP because Microsoft.SystemCenter.SecureReferenceOverride MP is dependent

Challenge During an attempt to uninstall Veeam Management Pack for Microsoft System Center a message appears stating that Microsoft.SystemCenter.SecureReferenceOverride MP is dependent on Veeam Base Discovery MP: Cause The Microsoft.SystemCenter.SecureReferenceOverride contains information...

vCloud jobs are not shown in SCOM views of Backup jobs

Challenge In Backup Job views under SCOM Monitoring, all backup jobs are discovered by Veeam Management Pack for Veeam Backup except for vCloud vCD backup jobs. Cause The behavior is caused by a known issue and fixed in Veeam Management Pack v7. Solution Upgrade to most recent version. More...

Incorrect values in the properties of objects in SCOM console

Challenge The collection of performance and events works fine, but during investigation of CPU/RAM properties of Hosts, Virtual Machines etc. unexpected values are revealed. For example ESXi host has 345.9 GB of RAM, but the SCOM property field contains 3459 GB. Cause SCOM processes these values...

Missing Data in SCOM Top Dashboards

Challenge While Veeam Collector works fine, and performance data are showing up in SCOM performance views, the Top dashboards are empty. Top Clusters Top Datastores Top Hosts Top Virtual Machines Cause The Top dashboards are populated with data from the Data Warehouse database, unlike the...

vCenter Connection Failover Requirements for SCOM Action Account

Challenge Although everything is set up according to the vCenter Connection Failover manual, the script fails. As a result, the following event appears in the Operations Manager Event Log on Veeam Virtualizations Extension Server VES with id: 995. vCenterFailover.ps1 : Error: Cannot open...