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Extending the Power of System Center Configuration Manager 2007 to non-Windows Environments

Quest Management Xtensions for Device Management – Configuration Manager 2007 Edition

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6/27/2008non-Windows Release version 4.0.0.424
6/27/2008Modified eXcSoftware.nonWindows.xml to WMI where clause back in rule eXcSoftware.nonWindows.nonWindowsObject.Alert.Collection since when we put the filter into the Expression xml, the OpsMgr Health Service Module generates a warning event in the Operations Manager Event Log, event ID: 10363, Description: Module was unable to enumerate the WMI data.  Error: 0x80041032, Details: Call cancelled
6/27/2008Modified eXcSoftware.nonWindows.xml to put stateview logic back into the discovery script
6/27/2008Modified ScriptManagerImplNoCOMPlus.cpp to add extern for global variable g_boolUseImpersonation, modified CScriptManagerImplNoCOMPlus::SchedularWatchdogThreadInstance and CScriptManagerImplNoCOMPlus::CreateProcessForSpecificVirtualAgent to use global variable instead of calling into the GetProperty routine
6/27/2008Modified common\eXc_Target_Interface.cpp, method CeXc_Target_Interface::PutGlobalProperty to set global variable g_boolUseImpersonation
6/27/2008Modified common\eXc_Target_Interface.cpp to add global variable g_boolUseImpersonation for performance optimization in CScriptManagerImplNoCOMPlus::SchedularWatchdogThreadInstance and CScriptManagerImplNoCOMPlus::CreateProcessForSpecificVirtualAgent
6/27/2008Modified ScriptManagerImplNoCOMPlus.cpp, method CScriptManagerImplNoCOMPlus::SchedularWatchdogThreadInstance to comment out call to WaitForSingleObject and ReleaseSemaphore on g_HANDLEWatchdogSemaphore
6/27/2008Modified ScriptManagerImplNoCOMPlus.cpp to comment out defination for g_HANDLEWatchdogSemaphore
6/27/2008Modified MainDll.cpp, function DllMain to comment out creation of semaphore g_HANDLEWatchdogSemaphore
6/27/2008Modified ScriptManagerImplNoCOMPlus.h to comment out definition for g_HANDLEWatchdogSemaphore
6/26/2008Modified eXc_Target_interface.cpp, methods CeXc_Target_Interface::InstanceCollectionGet and
    CeXc_Target_Interface::InstanceCollectionSet to use the member variable lock m_mutexRW instead
    of the global lock g_mutexRW
6/26/2008Modified eXc_nonWindows_OperatingSystem.cpp, method CeXc_nonWindows_OperatingSystem::OpsMgrSDKSingleton to hide singleton window (Gary's request) [to see what that script is doing now, look at log C:\Program Files\eXc Software\WMI Providers\nonWindows\Virtual Agent Library\MOM\Logs\eXcVirtualAgentsDebug_eXcOpsMgrSingleton.log
6/24/2008Modified eXcSoftware.nonWindows.xml, template eXcSoftware.nonWindows.nonWindowsObject.PerformanceRule.Template to use datasource Microsoft.SystemCenter.SdkPerformanceDataProvider instead of Microsoft.SystemCenter.TargetEntitySdkPerformanceDataProvider
6/23/2008Modified MOM\CommonRoutinesCLIWatchdog.js to add logic to ensure All.js is being invoked at to requested interval (this code is commented out...there are 2 blocks of code in there)
6/20/2008Modified MOM\CommonRoutines.js, added global variable (yuck) g_strETA and function GenerateNonWindowsWMIEvent to process g_strETA if it is not null.  This will allow the VA code to set g_strETA so that values get populated into the OpsMgr Alert Custom4 property
6/20/2008Norm modified MOM\CommonRoutinesSNMPVirtualAgent.js, added global variable g_strProposedSNMPAlertText and modified function SendTrapAlertUsingInfoFromDB to populate it (this is for Cisco SNMP)
6/19/2008Modified SMS\SMS_DEF_Templates\Logical Disk.txt to change key from BlockSize(3) to DeviceID(9) not sure how it got set to 3, see Parser.js for possible bug in logic
6/19/2008Modified SMS\CommonRoutines.js, function CreateSMSDDR2003 to populate DDR (System_DISC) "Operating System Name and Version" (Operating_System_Name_and0) with strVirtualAgent_in
6/17/2008Modified Utilities\Autodiscovery\Form1.cs, method RunScript_Finished to correct bug when checking for AutoDiscoveryFormatter.js when running in generic mode
5/12/2008Modified eXcSoftware.nonWindows.xml (and JScript_Discovery_Script.js), function IseXcSoftwareWindowsProxyComputer added commented out code (if statement) in case we hit environments where we are running on a cluster or a system that is also acting as a proxy for Windows systems.  This will cause multiple non-Windows proxy computers to show in our state view and will generate the same alert multiple times.
6/16/2008non-Windows Release version 4.0.0.410
6/15/2008Modified MOM\CommonRoutinesCLIWatchdog.js, function eXcCLIWatchdog and eXcCLIWatchdog2, added commented out code to increate stringLoginPromptTimeout on the sshAutomation object
6/15/2008Modified MOM\CommonRoutinesCLIWatchdog.js, function eXcCLIWatchdog2, added login latency perf metric
6/14/2008Fixed bug in MOM\CommonRoutinesCLIWatchdog.js, function eXcCLIWatchdog2 where it was not returning a positive integer so that CScriptManagerImplNoCOMPlus::SchedularWatchdogThreadInstance could properly manage the VA scripts
6/13/2008See TODO notes (commented out code) in CommonRoutinesVirtualAgentFactory.js, function AddHost - this will allow us to put the watchdog logic back into the VA directory eventually
6/10/2008Modified sshAutomation\WINNET.C, function sk_new, added setsockopt(SO_KEEPALIVE)
6/12/2008Complete rewrite of sshAutomation connect logic: connect is now threaded and AutoStart/connect[worker] waits on an event semaphore for connect[setup] (including complete initialization of DriverThreadInstance to finish this also handles the case where AutoStart is not used and connect and login methods are called directly (see MOM\CommonRoutinesCLIWatchdog.js, function eXcCLIWatchdog).
6/9/2008Modified CommonRoutines.js, function SetupVirtualAgent, added commented out code for the login prompt timeout this is for large scale environments where the system is not coming back to the command prompt quick enough
6/9/2008Modified sshAutomation, method CPlink2::connect, commented out line //m_intConnectRetryCount = 0; //AL - 03/16/2008 this is/was a bug.  I added it for multiple sessions of sshAutomation in a single process but it screwed up the connection/login retry logic...
6/9/2008Added property uintPID to sshAutomation COM object
6/9/2008Modified sshAutomation\Plink2.cpp, method CPlink2::AutoStart to only call PopulateProperties once (i.e. when retry logic is invoked, no need to go back to variables of the ssh instance already)WMI since they are member
6/3/2008Modified MOM\CommonRoutinesInsertPerformanceRecord.js, function InsertPerformanceRecordJS2SCOM added flag to determine whether to send the perf data directly to the OpsMgr SDK or to generate a WMI event (that will get consumed by the OpsMgr custom datasource)
6/3/2008Modified MOM\CommonRoutinesInsertPerformanceRecord.js, function InsertPerformanceRecordJS2SCOM added g_objWMIInstance.strVirtualAgent and g_objWMIInstance.strVirtualAgentCategory as parameters to g_objWMIInstance.SendPerformanceMetric
6/3/2008Modified eXc_nonWindows_OperatingSystem.cpp, method CeXc_nonWindows_OperatingSystem::SendPerformanceMetric to process fields strVirtualAgent and strVirtualAgentCategory
6/3/2008Modified eXc_nonWindows_WMI_Provider.mof to add fields strVirtualAgent and strVirtualAgentCategory to eXc_nonWindows_Performance_Event and added these fields to SendPerformanceMetric method
6/3/2008Modified eXcSoftware.nonWindows.xml (see JScript_Discovery_Script.js) to check for null (or 0 length strings) for strIPAddress and strClusterNode (not sure what has changed here except SP1 - reported by Univision) when adding them as OpsMgr properties.
6/3/2008Gary changed MOM\CommonRoutinesMonitorLog.js [commented out code only]
6/3/2008Gary changed MOM\CommonRoutinesSNMPPerformanceMetrics.js
6/2/2008Modified eXcSoftware.nonWindows.xml.  Modified discovery script (JScript_Discovery_Script.js) so that it no longer processes the state view/diagram view.  Processing of state view/diagram view has been moved into a rule (see eXcSoftware.nonWindows.WindowsProxyComputer.StateViewUpdater) on the eXcSoftware.nonWindows.WindowsProxyComputer object (see script (JScript_StateViewUpdater_Script.js).  Separating these functions will yeild better performance.
5/29/2008Added Virtual Agent Library\eXcGUI\SnmpPerformanceMetrics.xslt/html to Setup32DotNet11, Setup32DotNet20, Setup64 [Gary]
5/28/2008Modified eXcSoftwareOM2007eXctender.cs, class DataSource, method Start added logic to get OpsMgr ManagementServer and Domain from properties from OpsMgrGlobalVariables.xml
5/27/2008reworked logic for CPlink2::logout to address when there is a firewall in the session path
5/27/2008removed elevating/de-elevating the address space priority from method AutoStart
5/23/2008Modified sshAutomation to add new property boolPerformConnectCheck to allow skipping of connect check logic
5/22/2008Modified eXcSoftwareOM2007eXctender.cs, method GetnonWindowsComputerOpsMgrObjectID to get ID property (bug)
5/22/2008Modified eXcSoftware.nonWindows.xml to add "<RuleId>$MPElement$</RuleId>" to <DataSource ID="PerfDS"
5/22/2008Modified sshAutomation to add new method SetTraceURL.  Changes in PLink2.h/cpp, sshAutomation2.cpp, sshAutomation.idl
5/22/2008Modified sshAutomation project for 64bit to add _WIN64 to preprocessor C++ settings
5/22/2008Modified common\PrivateKey.h for COM #import of msxml.dll, added #ifdef logic for 64bit (referenced in sshAutomation)
5/19/2008Modified eXcSoftware.nonWindows.xml to change Target of template rule that performs DW write from Target="$TemplateConfig/TargetReference_in$" to Target="$Reference/SystemCenter$Microsoft.SystemCenter.RootManagementServer" per conversation with Vlad 
5/16/2008Modified eXcSoftwareOM2007eXctender.cs, class eXcSoftwareOM2007eXctender, method AddPerfMetric to only add to the queue if the count is less than m_longMaxQueueDepth (default value = 1000)
5/15/2008Modified MOM\CommonRoutinesInsertPerformanceRecord.js, function InsertPerformanceRecordJS2SCOM to generate a WMI event of type eXc_nonWindows_Performance_Event (currently when not running singleton...todo)
5/15/2008Added custom datasource to eXcSoftware.nonWindows.xml
5/14/2008Fixed threading issue in eXcSoftwareOM2007eXctender.cs
5/14/2008XMLReceiver.cs, removed m_doubleCounter from XMLData class
5/13/2008Modified MOM\eXcOpsMgrSingleton.js to add g_objOM2007eXctenderInterface.boolOpsMgrSingleton = true; so .net assembly will launch a worker thread and use the queue
5/13/2008Modified eXcSoftwareOM2007eXctender.cs to make existing code base (i.e. not using the datasource) use the queue.  If using the OpsMgrSingleton approach, the perf metric write will be queued.  If using the Virtual Agent directly, the perf metric write will be synchronous.
5/12/2008Modified eXcSoftware.nonWindows.xml (and JScript_Discovery_Script.js), function IseXcSoftwareWindowsProxyComputer added commented out code (if statement) in case we hit environments where we are running on a cluster or a system that is also acting as a proxy for Windows systems.  This will cause multiple non-Windows proxy computers to show in our state view and will generate the same alert multiple times.
5/12/2008Modified XMLReceiver.cs, class XMLData to replace string with Queue
5/8/2008Modified eXc_nonWindows_OperatingSystem.h/cpp to add method SendPerformanceMetric
5/8/2008Modified eXc_nonWindows_WMI_Provider.mof to add eXc_nonWindows_Performance_Event and method SendPerformanceMetric
5/6/2008Modified eXcSoftware.nonWindows.xml to remove all where clauses from WQL
5/6/2008Modified eXcSoftwareOM2007eXctender.cs, method GetState to add ResolutionState to MonitoringAlertCriteria optimization against data returned from SQL

4/21/2008

Release version 4.0.0.400

4/21/2008

Modify Virtual Agent Library\MOM\eXcGUI\OpsMgrGlobalVariables.xml to correct informational text for g_boolUseOpsMgrSingleton

4/21/2008

Modified CeXc_Support_Script.h/cpp, CeXc_Support_script_OpsMgrSDKSing1eton.h/cpp, eXc_Clustering_SNMP_Trap_Receiver. h/cpp, (TheConstants.h) to accept an IWbemServices ovject to add the job into WMI (eXc_Virtual_Agent) so that RemoveOrphandVirtualAgents will clean up the jobs on a WMI restart

4/20/2008

Ste/test hooks for quota overrides - if possible (waiting on Microsoft)

4/19/2008

Modified TrapThrower to support the ability to provide a port # to trhow to. You do this by adding :X to the end fo the host name where X is the port #

4/18/2008

Modified TheConstants.h,eXc_nonWindows_WMI_Provider.mof to support above

4/18/2008

Added ScriptManagerImpNOCOMPLus.h/cpp, HasVirtualAgentTimedOutFactorInLoad to allow scripts to run longer under heavy load

4/17/2008

Added "watchdog process throttle", set to 10 (ScriptManagerImp1NoCOMPlus.h/cpp and MainDll.cpp

4/17/2008

Fixed nonWindows\MOM\VirtualAgentManagerScriptsForNonWindowsSystems.js, function

4/16/2008

Add priority logic to sshAutomation login logic

4/14/2008

Release version 4.0.0.387

4/13/2008

Removed MOM\eXcOpsMgrSingleton.cmd from Setup32DotNet20 and Setup64

4/13/2008

Code CeXc_Support_Script

4/10/2008

Modified eXcSoftwareOM2007eXctender.cs to add method GetnonWindowsComputerOpsMgrObjectID

4/9/2008

Modified eXc_nonWindows_OperatingSystem.cpp, method CeXc_nonWindows_operatingSystem (constructor), ~CeXc_nonWindows_OperatingSystem (destructor) and SetGlobalProperty

4/9/2008

Modified eXc_nonWindoes_OperatingSystem.h, added include and new member variable m_pSupport_Script_OpsMgrSDKSingleton

4/9/2008

Created CeXc_Support_Script.h/cpp and CeXc_Support_Script_OpsMgrSDKSing1eton.h/cpp

4/9/2008

Modified EditHostsV4, Form1.cs, create member variable m_stringOpsMgrGlobalVariablesXMLFile, Form1_Load, SetupOpsMgrGlobalVariablesXMLFileWatcher, m_FileSystemWatcher_Changed_OpsMgrGlobalVariablesXMLFile

4/8/2008

Add MOM\eXcOpsMgrSingleton.js, wsf and cmd to Setup32DotNet20 and Setup64

4/8/2008

Create MOM\eXcOpsMgrSingleton.js, wsf and cmd

4/8/2008

Modified MOM\GlobalVariables.js function SetOM2007eXctenderInterface so that if we are running in OpsMgrSingleton mode, we don't instantiate the .Net assembly in the actual Virtual Agent scripts

4/8/2008

Modified MOM\eXcGUI\OpsMgrGlobalVariables.html to describe global variable g_boolUseOpsMgrSingleton

4/8/2008

Modified MOM\GlobalVariables.js to add g_booUseOpsMgrSingleton

4/8/2008

Modified MOM\CommonRoutinesInsertPerformanceRecord.js for OpsMgr SDK singleton connection

4/4/208

Modified instructional text in MOM\eXcGUI\_GlobalVariables.html which referenced the standalone eXc DW DB since we don't use this anymore - requested by Norm

03/30/2008

Release Version 4.0.0.337

03/30/2008

Added new child control XMLReceiver to Setup32DotNet20 and Setup64

03/30/2008

Modified MOM\CommonRoutinesMonitorLog.js to add SMLClass logic

03/30/2008

Modified eXcGUI\MonitorLog.html/xslt to add SMLClass

03/30/2008

Fixed bug in CommonRoutinesDCM.js, function ProcessDCMMOM, added missing parameter "Owner" to call to ThrowAlert2

03/30/2008

Modified eXc_nonWindows_OperatingSystem.h/cpp, added method GetOpsMgrSeverity 

03/30/2008

Reworked eXcSoftwareOM2007eXctender.cs to handle sealed management pack and eXcSoftware.nonWindows.xml so that TargetReference_in was never a 0 length string

03/30/2008

Modified eXc_nonWindows_WMI_Provider.mof to change the datatype for v4uint32Severity from uint32 to sint32

TODO: change the name of the variable to match the datatype

03/30/2008

Modified eXcSoftware.nonWindows.xml to have all unit monitors that are listening to our wmi events and are querying v4uint32Severity to make the comparator <= 0 rather than = 0

NOTE: MP templates cannot handle the CDATA XML processing tag so we had to have an extended WMI query!!!

03/30/2008

Modified eXcSoftware.nonWindows.xml (JScript_Discovery_Script.js), function GenerateHealthyEventForSMLClass to send a -1 as the severity

03/30/2008

Modified eXc_nonWindows_OperatingSystem.cpp, method CeXc_nonWindows_OperatingSystem::SendEvent to let severities of -1 pass thru (and not get set to 0)

03/30/2008

created C:\Projects\eXc\WMI_Providers\nonWindows\ConfigurationTool\EditHos tsV4\TestConnectionV2DotNet20x64

03/29/2008

Modified Setup32DotNet11, Setup32DotNet20 and Setup64 to call DebugView version 4.74 (supports 64bit)

03/29/2008

Major overhaul of build process so that all three builds can happen on single box see __BuildProjects.js, __BuildProjectsList.txt plus all COM projects

03/27/2007

Modified eXcSoftwareOM2007Connector.cs, method GetNewAlerts to ensure that all alert name text is wrapped in a CDATA XML node. (Clarify SubcaseID 612089-1)

03/21/2008

Modified common\EventLogAccess.h/cpp to dynamically load AUTHZ.dll

03/21/2008

Removed static link to AUTHZ.dll in linker

03/19/2008

Modified eXcSoftware.nonWindows.xml to make all references to internal accessability to public accessability for support of eXcSoftware.nonWindows.Dynamic and MP inheritance

03/17/2008

Modified MOM\CommonRoutinesConnector.js, function SetMOMAlertResolutionState, added if test for MOM vs. SCOM

03/16/2008

Modified sshAutomation, Plink2.h/cpp, ScreenManager.h/cpp, CONSOLE.C to

removed g_boolExiting and made m_boolExiting a variable in class CPlink2

created global variable g_boolConsoleAllocated so that dll only calls AllocConsole once per address space
- added Thread Local Storage to the threads for simultaneous multiple sessions (not done yet)

03/14/2008

Modified MOM\CommonRoutinesConnector.js, function SetOM2007ConnectorInterface to add the (commented out line) that specifies the OpsMgr SDK service domain userid for when connector is running off the OpsMgr RMS

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