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OpsMgr 2007 SP1 KB951979 Hotfix Released

This fix is scheduled to hit the Microsoft support site over the next few days. Details below:

System Center Operations 2007 Service Pack 1

Hotfix Release Notes

SystemCenterOperationsManager2007-SP1-KB951979-X86-X64-ENU.MSI

 

May, 2008

 

The information in this article applies to:

   System Center Operations 2007 Service Pack 1

 

Note: This patch applies to System Center Operations Manager 2007 SP1 Only

Summary

Following problems 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.

 

This hot-fix resolves these issues.

Symptoms

 

When affected by these issues, a number of System Center Operations Manager 2007 SP1 management packs will be unable to:

 

   Discover operating system properties on Windows 2000 SP4

   Discover CSDVersion on Windows Vista machines

   Restart Health service when HandleCountThreshold is exceeded

   Collect correct ACS event

   Discover cluster where Virtual Server Name is a subset of the Physical Server Name

   And additionally generates erroneous Alert for Performance Data Source Module when the services are disabled

 

After applying this fix, these issues should be resolved.

Installation

This hotfix contains four management packs.  Install these management packs from an Operations Manager console.

 

To extract the management pack files contained in this hotfix:

1.   Copy the file:

SystemCenterOperationsManager2007-SP1-KB951979-X86-X64-ENU.MSI 

To either a local folder or accessible network shared folder.

2.   Then run:

SystemCenterOperationsManager2007-SP1-KB951979-X86-X64-ENU.MSI locally on each applicable computer that meets the predefined criteria.

 

Note: The installation path is typically the following:

Program Files\System Center Hotfix Utility

 

 

You can run SystemCenterOperationsManager2007-SP1-KB951979-X86-X64-ENU.MSI from either Windows Explorer or from a command prompt.

 

For detailed instructions on the tasks described above, see the Knowledge Base article as referenced in the Additional Information section of this document.

 

This hotfix contains the following updated Management Packs which must be imported into Operations Manager. These management packs are located in the folder noted above.

 

Microsoft.SystemCenter.2007.mp (Version 6.0.6278.19)

Microsoft.SystemCenter.ACS.Internal.mp (Version 6.0.6278.19)

Microsoft.SystemCenter.Internal.mp (Version 6.0.6278.19)

Microsoft.Mom.BackwardCompatibility.mp (Version 6.0.6278.19)

Additional Information

For additional information about this issue, see KB article KB951979 at <http://support.microsoft.com/>.  For additional information and downloads, see <http://www.microsoft.com/mom>.

 

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