Update Rollup 7 for System Center 2016 Operations Manager

Introduction

This article describes the issues that are fixed in Update Rollup 7 for Microsoft System Center 2016 Operations Manager. This article also contains the installation instructions for this update.

Improvements and issues that are fixed

• Fixed: Cannot use SQLOleDB.dll to probe databases like Oracle/MySQL.

• Improved the performance of SCOM console in listing the groups.

• Operations Manager grooms out the alert history only on an alert closure.

• Agents by Health State report shows duplicate agent names.

• Users of a scoped group are not able to use the Console.

• Fixed an issue that prevented addition of a group in the Storage Spaces Direct 2016 management pack dashboard.

• SCOM Network Device Re-Discovery now probes for SNMP V3 devices too.

• Fixed re-registering for SNMP Traps in the Proxy Management Server.

• Windows Computer Property "NetbiosDomainName" is not discovered properly.

• SCOM console crashes while trying to connect to Azure Log Analytics and Azure Monitor.

• Linux agent is not able to get the correct version and port details for JBoss EAP 7.1.

• An issue that lead to creation of multiple empty temp files in the /tmp directory of Linux servers has been fixed.

• Fixed the formatting issue with the output for the task ‘Top10 CPU Processes' when using Windows Management Infrastructure (MI) APIs.

• XPlat agent now supports monitoring of SUSE-11 SP4 platform with Security Module installed on it for TLS 1.2 compliance.

• Fixed an issue that caused the corruption of /etc/login.cfg file on AIX 7 machines during install/upgrade of the agent.

• AIX Agent is now transitioned to 64-bit package to accommodate more stack and heap space if needed to avoid any stack/heap overflow which occasionally leads to heartbeat failure.

• Free memory calculation accommodated appropriately on RHEL-7 platform.

How to obtain Update Rollup 7 for System Center 2016 Operations Manager

Update packages for Operations Manager are available from Microsoft Update or by manual download.

Microsoft Update

To obtain and install an update package from Microsoft Update, follow these steps on a computer that has an Operations Manager component installed:

1. Click Start, and then click Control Panel.

2. In Control Panel, double-click Windows Update.

3. In the Windows Update window, click Check Online for updates from Microsoft Update.

4. Click Important updates are available.

5. Select the update rollup package, and then click Ok.

6. Click Install updates to install the update package.

If your computer is running Windows Server 2016 or later, follow these steps:

1. Click Start, and then click Settings.

2. In Settings, click Updates & Security.

3. On the Windows Update tab, click Check Online for updates from Microsoft Update.

4. Click Important updates are available.

5. Select the update rollup package, and then click OK.

6. Click Install updates to install the update package.

Manual download

Go to the following websites to manually download the update packages from the Microsoft Update Catalog:

 Download the Operations Manager update package now.

For information about how to download Microsoft support files, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

119591 How to obtain Microsoft support files from online services

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Installation instructions for Operations Manager

Installation notes

• Important You must have the System Center 2016 Operations Manager Server (KB3209591) update installed before you install this System Center 2016 Operations Manager Server (KB4492182) update.

• This update rollup package is available from Microsoft Update in the following languages:
  

• • Chinese Simplified (CHS)

  • Japanese (JPN)

  • French (FRA)

  • German (DEU)

  • Russian (RUS)

  • Italian (ITA)

  • Spanish (ESN)

  • Portuguese (Brazil) (PTB)

  • Chinese Traditional (CHT)

  • Korean (KOR)

  • Czech (CSY)

  • Dutch (NLD)

  • Polish (POL)

  • Portuguese (Portugal) (PTG)

  • Swedish (SWE)

  • Turkish (TUR)

  • Hungarian (HUN)

  • English (ENU)

• Some components are multi-language, and the updates for these components are not localized.

• You must run this update rollup as an administrator.

• If you don't want to restart the computer after you apply the console update, close the console before you apply the update for the console role.

• To start a new instance of Microsoft Silverlight, clear the browser cache in Silverlight, and then restart Silverlight.

• Do not apply an update rollup immediately after you install System Center 2016 Operations Manager. Wait several hours after deployment of a new management group before you apply any update rollup.

• If User Account Control is enabled, run the .msp update files from an elevated command prompt.

• You must have System Administrator rights on the database instances for the Operational Database and Data warehouse to apply updates to these databases.

Supported installation order

1. Install the update rollup package on the following server infrastructure:

2. • Management server or servers

   • Audit Collection Services

   • Web console server role computers

   • Gateway

   • Operations console role computers

   • Reporting

3. Apply SQL scripts.

4. Manually import the management packs.

5. Apply Agent updates.

6. Apply the Nano Agent update to manually installed agents or push the installation from the Pending view in the Operations console.

7. Update Unix/Linux MPs and Agents.

Operations Manager update

To download the update rollup package and extract the files that are contained in the update rollup package, follow these steps:

1. Download the update packages that Microsoft Update provides for each computer. Microsoft Update provides the appropriate updates according to the components that are installed on each computer. Alternatively, download the packages from the Microsoft Update Catalog.

2. Apply the appropriate MSP files on each computer.
   
   Note MSP files are included in the update rollup package. Apply all MSP files that relate to a specific computer. For example, if the web console and console roles are installed on a management server, apply the MSP files on the management server. Apply one MSP file on a server for each specific role that the server holds.

3. Execute the following Database SQL script on the Database server against the OperationsManagerDB database:

Update_rollup_mom_db.sql

Note This script is located at the following path:

%SystemDrive%\Program Files\System Center 2016\Operations Manager\Server\SQL Script for Update Rollups

1. Import the following management packs:

2. • Microsoft.SystemCenter.Internal.mp

   • Microsoft.SystemCenter.2007.mp

   • Microsoft.SystemCenter.Advisor.Internal.mpb

   • Microsoft.SystemCenter.OperationsManager.Library.mp

   • Microsoft.SystemCenter.Image.Library.mp

   • Microsoft.SystemCenter.Visualization.Library.mpb

   • Microsoft.SystemCenter.Advisor.mpb

   • Microsoft.Windows.InternetInformationServices.CommonLibrary.mp

   • Microsoft.SystemCenter.AlertAttachment.mpb

   • Microsoft.SystemCenter.IntelliTraceProfiling.mpb

   • Microsoft.SystemCenter.SyntheticTransactions.Library.mp

   • Microsoft.SystemCenter.OperationsManager.AM.DR.2007.mp

   • Microsoft.SystemCenter.OperationsManager.SummaryDashboard.mp

   • Microsoft.SystemCenter.Advisor.Resources.(LANGUAGECODE_3LTR).mpb

   • Microsoft.SystemCenter.DataWarehouse.Report.Library.mp

   • Microsoft.SystemCenter.ACS.Internal.mp

   • Microsoft.SystemCenter.Visualization.ServiceLevelComponents.mpb

   • Microsoft.SystemCenter.Library.mpb

   • Microsoft.SystemCenter.Apm.Infrastructure.mpb

   • Microsoft.Windows.Cluster.Library.mp

For information about how to import a management pack from a disk, see the Microsoft TechNet topic How to Import an Operations Manager Management Pack.

Note Management packs are included in the Server component updates in the following location:

%SystemDrive%\Program Files\System Center 2016\Operations Manager\Server\Management Packs for Update Rollups

Nano Agent update

To manually install the updates to Nano Agent, download the KB3209591-8.0.10913.0-NanoAgent.cab file. You can install this update on a Nano Agent system by using the following PowerShell script:

.\UpdateNanoServerScomAgentOnline.ps1

 -NanoServerFQDN <FQDN of target Nano Server>

 -BinaryFolder <Path where the update .cab is already expanded OR path to one or more Nano-agent update .cab files>

 -IsCabExpanded <$true if BinaryFolder path is to an expanded .cab, $false if it is for a packed .cab file(s)>

 -RemoveBackup <$true to remove the previous binaries from the agent machine>

UNIX and Linux management pack update

To install the updated monitoring packs and agents for UNIX and Linux operating systems, follow these steps:

1. Apply Update Rollup 5 to your System Center 2016 Operations Manager environment.
   
   Note There are no UNIX/Linux MP updates in Update Rollup 6.

2. Download the updated management packs for System Center 2016 from the following Microsoft website:
   

System Center Management Pack for UNIX and Linux Operating Systems

1. Install the management pack update package to extract the management pack files.

2. Import the updated management pack for each version of Linux or UNIX that you are monitoring in your environment.

3. Upgrade each agent to the latest version by using the Update-SCXAgent Windows PowerShell cmdlet or the UNIX/Linux Agent Upgrade Wizard in the Administration pane of the Operations Console.

Uninstall information

To uninstall an update, run the following command:

msiexec /uninstall PatchCodeGuid /package RTMProductCodeGuid

Note: The PatchCodeGuid placeholder represents one of the following GUIDs.

Additionally, the RTMProductCodeGuid placeholder represents one of the following GUIDs.

Files updated in this update rollup

The following is a list of files that have changed in this update rollup. If you do not have all previous update rollups installed, files other than those listed here may also be updated. For a complete list of files that are updated, see the "Files Updated in this update rollup" section of all update rollups that were released after your current update rollup.