June 2008 - Posts
The MSMQ MP has been officially released by Microsoft: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=1d2b4398-8bc2-4a43-850c-852ebb0d983b&DisplayLang=en
Overview
Message Queuing (also known as MSMQ) is a server application that enables applications to communicate across heterogeneous networks and systems that may be temporarily offline or otherwise inaccessible. Instead of an application communicating with a service on another computer, it sends its information to Message Queuing, which sends the information to a Message Queuing service on the target computer where it is made available to the other application. Message Queuing provides guaranteed delivery, efficient routing, security, and priority based messaging.
Feature Summary
The Message Queuing Management Pack provides monitoring for the following:
- MSMQ Servers
- MSMQ Triggers
- MSMQ Queues
- Dependant Clients
A big post SP1 hotfix rollup has now been released which fixes the following problems that have been identified with a number of System Center Operations Manager 2007 SP1 management packs:
· Unable to discover CSDVersion on Windows Vista machines
· Unable to discover operating system properties on Windows 2000 SP4
· Agent HandleCountThreshold monitor does not restart Health service on exchange agent if HandleCountThreshold is exceeded
· ACS Collection rule references a wrong EventID
· Performance collection raises erroneous alerts for disabled services due to unavailable perf counters
· A script bug prevents cluster discovery where Virtual Server Name is a subset of the Physical Server Name.
It is available through CSS and the KB article is KB951979
If you are seeing the following error in your OpsMgr sp1 event log on some servers where the DELL MP is running?
Event Type: Error
Event Source: HealthService
Event Category: Health Service
Event ID: 4000
Date: 4/22/2008
Time: 1:32:13PM
User: N/A
Computer: OPSMGRSRV1
Description:
A monitoring host is unresponsive or has crashed. The status code for the host
failure was 2164195371.
For more information, see Help and Support Center at
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: MonitoringHost.exe
Application Version: 6.0.6278.0
Application Timestamp: 47b71437
Fault Module Name: HealthServiceRuntime.dll
Fault Module Version: 6.0.6278.0
Fault Module Timestamp: 47b71433
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 00003d9d
OS Version: 6.0.6001.2.1.0.16.7
Locale ID: 1033
This is being caused by a discovery rule that uses the SNMP Discovery Module, and the good news is that there is a new hotfix out that corrects the problem.
It is available currently through CSS just ask for KB951526.
Hi Folks,
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