Update Rollup 5 for System Center 2019 Operations Manager

Security Enhancements

• Fixed multiple Web Console Security Vulnerabilities.

  • Note: The Web.config files of both HTMLDashboard and MonitoringView web apps will be replaced, so any changes done to settings inside of these will have to be remade.

• The organization of temporary files used for kerberos based authentication is further enhanced to prevent any misuse.

• Fixed Data parsing issues in Linux agent that might cause the agent to crash.

Unix/Linux/Network monitoring fixes and changes

• Fixed an issue where msgAuthenticationParameters needs to have 0 length during engine discovery of SNMPv3 devices. Also

• Fixed an issue related to SNMP Discovery where we see MonitoringHost.exe crashes.

• Fixed the issue where user was unable to run Get-SCXAgent and Invoke-SCXDiscovery remotely using Invoke-Command.

• Fixed Linux agent crash issue caused by variable out of scope issue for _HandleGetClassReq.

• Fixed an issue that would causes Linux agent to crash when DSC provider is installed.

• Added supportability on Operations Manager Linux Agent for Rocky Linux 8, Alma Linux 8. systems with OpenSSL 3.0, RHEL 9.0 and Ubuntu 22.

Previous fixes

All the issues that were fixed in SCOM 2016 UR10 and the earlier hotfixes for SCOM 2019 are also included in SCOM 2019 UR5. 

Installation notes

• 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.

• If this is a fresh installation of System Center Operations Manager 2019, after installation, wait for a few hours (generally 6–8 hours) before you apply this update rollup.

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

Simplified Management Server patching

• SCOM 2019 Update Rollup 1 introduced a frictionless way of updating the SCOM management server.

• For more information about simplified see the g Knowledge Base article:4538900 Simplified SCOM 2019 Management Server Patching

Supported installation order

1. Install the update rollup package on the following server infrastructure.
   
   Note Management server or servers can be updated by using either the msp or simplified management server patching user interface.

• Audit Collection Services

• Web console server role computers

• Gateway

• Operations console role computers

• Reporting

Note You may encounter an error at the management pack import step during the management server update. To mitigate this error, do either of the following:

• Install .NET Framework 3.5, and then rerun the management server update.

• Import the management packs manually.

 2.    Apply agent updates.

 3.     Update Unix and Linux MPs and agents.

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 Operations Manager 2019 environment.

2. Download the updated management packs for System Center 2019 from the following Microsoft website: System Center 2019 Management Pack for UNIX and Linux Operating Systems

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

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

5. 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.