NetCool/Omnibus integration pack for Orchestrator returns error Invalid ObjectServer data type

This article describes an issue where the activities in the integration pack for IBM Tivoli NetCool/OMNIbus return the java.lang.RuntimeException: Invalid ObjectServer data type error.

Original product version:   Microsoft System Center 2012 Orchestrator
Original KB number:   2805835

Symptoms

The error message java.lang.RuntimeException: Invalid ObjectServer data type is returned by the activities in the integration pack for IBM Tivoli NetCool/OMNIbus if the Status table in the Alerts database includes one or more columns of type char.

Cause

NetCool/Omnibus expects varchar type data. The column being written to is currently of type char.

Resolution

This issue has been corrected in System Center 2012 Orchestrator Service Pack 1 (SP1).