It is always important to have up to date Management packs, this is because in updated management packs their can be new monitors and rules which are not included in the current version of the management pack and therefore making you miss potential issues. Bug Fixes may also be included in updated MP’s so updating can also reduce the amount of noise from SCOM.

The task of updating SCOM R2 Management Packs is fairly Straightforward.

Upgrading Management Packs

1, If we firstly go to the administration tab on SCOM console

2, Now if We Right Click Management packs on the windows on the left and choose import management packs

3,  Next if choose the add option and then the add from catalog option. The Add from catalog option, basically checks for new MP’s from the Microsoft Management Pack catalog.

4, If we change the View drop down to update management packs. This will then compare our MP version to Microsoft catalogues and let us know what MP’s we need to update when we hit search.

5, You will now see the management packs you need to update. If you choose what management packs you  want and press the add option and then finally hit ok.

6, Then Install the MP’s and you’re done.

 Daniel Davies

You may start having issues with certain  users who are using ISA 2006 as there web proxy on certain web sites which cause IE not to work until it is restarted.

A possible cause for this is ISA’s Flood Mitigation settings which limit you to 600 http requests per minute. Certain websites will make more request than this limit and ISA will block http requests from the IP address and you will have this error appear in the alerts tab of the ISA.

“The number of HTTP requests per minute from the source IP address *.*.*.* exceeded the configured limit. ISA Server will block new HTTP requests sent from this IP address.”

To stop this issue occurring you can add exception to the flood mitigation settings which will increase the maximum number of http requests to go up to 6000.

To add an Exception to Flood Mitigation Settings

1, Expand configuration and press the general option on ISA management console.

2, Press “Configure Flood Mitigation Settings”

3, Go to the IP Exceptions Tab and add in the computers which are experiencing the issues and apply the rule and you have then increased the HTTP Requests per minute value to 6000.

Hope this helps

Daniel Davies