Comments on: CentOS discovery in OpsMgr2007 R2 beta

By: Daniele Muscetta

Daniele Muscetta — Mon, 02 May 2011 10:06:03 +0000

MPs can be sealed with a key. When sealed, each depending MP will reference them by that key. I suggest you take a look at and get a bit familiar with the MP Schema here http://blogs.technet.com/b/authormps/archive/2011/02/24/management-pack-schema.aspx before walking into this territory.
In particular, the Reference is explained here http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee533847.aspx
For an easier-to-follow step-by-step guide on how to convert the RedHat MP to work with CentOS, use the guide (it is split across multiple articles) from Robert here http://blogs.msdn.com/b/scxplat/archive/2010/01/15/building-a-centos-management-pack-part-2.aspx

By: jafet

jafet — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 18:02:38 +0000

@daniele, where did you find the Token.???

By: Daniele Muscetta

Daniele Muscetta — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 07:00:04 +0000

Indeed. Glad you figured it out!

By: Adrian C

Adrian C — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 20:23:59 +0000

Succes!
I PublicKeyToken needs to be changed!

By: Adrian C

Adrian C — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 19:54:58 +0000

Update Regarding the issue:
I found an issue if I export the MP in a unsealed MP with Get-ManagementPack | Export-ManagementPack I canot reimport it. I get the dependenci error.

By: Adrian C

Adrian C — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 19:03:13 +0000

Hi,
I tryed the same thing like you on a SCOM 2007 R2 CU4.
I have edited the 2 MP from redhat (version 6.1.7000.277) and tryed to import them. The CentOS Linux 5 Operating MP tells me that it does not find the Microsoft.Linux.CentOS.Library. At the import I see that the MP has the corect name and the corect version.
I have tryed importing it separatly not both at once.. and the same thing!
Please HELP!

Thank you in advanced

By: Daniele Muscetta

Daniele Muscetta — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 07:51:05 +0000

Venkat, you would not believe it, but this is actually DOCUMENTED in the "Cross-Platform Authoring Guide" http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd789075.aspx

By: venkat

venkat — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:56:29 +0000

HI ,
I have been trying to see if data can be returned as property bag in a monitor type or composite data source type where we need a script to first run on linux and the out put can be put in property bag data. Using property bag approach will also make it easier to get the alert description to be more useful.
Is this possible at all?

By: Daniele Muscetta

Daniele Muscetta — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 12:20:40 +0000

This said, if you have done the necessary monidifations/strings replacements in the MP, it might just be that not all objects (OS, CPU, network, etc…) have been discovered yet, therefore you don't get any monitoring going until they are. Try overriding the discoveries to speed up the process.

By: Daniele Muscetta

Daniele Muscetta — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 12:16:05 +0000

As much as I would love to enable people to monitor other types of Linux Distributions, I cannot distribute a working MP, since it is basically based on *unsupported* reverse engineering of the original RedHat MP, as you understand, which is included in the product and copyrighted by Microsoft. But I believe that, in this serie of posts, I have explained pretty well how to proceed if you want to roll your own…

By: Fobe

Fobe — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 09:18:03 +0000

Hi Daniele,
at the moment I'm playing with SCOM 2007 R2. I have 2 CentOS 5 servers. But I'm unable to get the MP for CentOS (5) not working. It only shows that it's alive but no server stats like, RAM/CPU/SWAP usage.
So my questions is if you have for me a working MP for CentOS 5 that I can import into SCOM 2007 R2? Thanks in advance…

By: Daniele Muscetta

Daniele Muscetta — Sat, 30 May 2009 12:28:36 +0000

Take a look here at my new post – I managed to get the agent running on Ubuntu – http://www.muscetta.com/2009/05/30/installing-the-opsmgr-2007-r2-scx-agent-on-ubuntu/

By: Daniele Muscetta

Daniele Muscetta — Sat, 30 May 2009 11:52:29 +0000

Marnix, you actually pushed me to test a bit more… check out for my next post!

By: Daniele Muscetta

Daniele Muscetta — Thu, 28 May 2009 13:20:46 +0000

Not currently. Ubuntu and all debian-based distro's are not supported. The package for Redhat installs on CentOS just fine (they are pretty similar) and modifying the MP is easy, os you can get that to work pretty easily. But for different distributions you would technically need to build your own agent "package" by grabbing OpenPegasus's code at http://www.openpegasus.org/ . I am not sure if the SCX_ providers have been open sourced, or not, and under which license.

By: Marnix Wolf

Marnix Wolf — Thu, 28 May 2009 06:27:23 +0000

Hi Daniele.

Do you have any experience with Ubuntu server? Does OpsMgr R2 discover Ubuntu server and install an OpsMgr Agent on it so – for instance – the Novell MP for Apache can discover and monitor Apache on an Ubuntu server?

Hope to hear from you.

Best regards,
Marnix