KB Article for OpsMgr: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4459897/update-rollup-6-for-system-center-2016-operations-manager
Download catalog site: http://www.catalog.update.microsoft.com/Search.aspx?q=4459897
Updated UNIX/Linux Management Packs: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=29696
Recommended hotfix page: https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/kevinholman/2009/01/27/which-hotfixes-should-i-apply/
NOTE: I get this question every time we release an update rollup: ALL SCOM Update Rollups are CUMULATIVE. This means you do not need to apply them in order, you can always just apply the latest update. If you have deployed SCOM 2016 and never applied an update rollup – you can go straight to the latest one available.
Key fixes:
- Application pool crashes and SharePoint application crashes because of APM agent and the profiler are now fixed. These occurred because the profiler was always on. This issue is fixed by disabling the profiler by default and enabling it only when APM is configured. Note: If you’re using APM, restart IIS after you deploy the patches.
- Fixed: Scheduled Maintenance Mode doesn't work in an availability group that uses SQL Always-On configuration. In case of a failover to a secondary node, the Maintenance Mode Schedules that are created on the primary node don't run. This has now been fixed. For details, see the "Enabling Schedule Maintenance Mode with SQL Always ON" section.
- Updated fix: The Get-SCOMGroup cmdlet is slow to query large (more than 2,000) groups. A previous fix has been improved for faster querying of any number of groups.
- Fixed: Using MI APIs causes MonitoringHost.exe to crash. This event is logged in the Application log, but no crash events are reported in the Operations Manager event log. After this fix, MonitoringHost doesn’t crash even if the useMIAPI registry key is enabled.
- Fixed: SCX cannot connect with Linux machine if the KEX algorithms are configured as any of the following: ecdh-sha2-nistp256, diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha256, or diffie-hellman-group14-sha256.
- Improved logging to display error messages and suggest that you check performance counters when PdhExpandWildCardPath fails.
- Fixed: Session Events tab in Application Diagnostics web console doesn't display any data.
- Fixed: Users could not edit the Maintenance Schedule in the SCOM console if all the objects were removed. The schedule can now be edited. However, it cannot be saved unless it contains at least one object.
- OMS (now Azure Log Analytics) connection onboarding wizard is updated to communicate with the new APIs. This is because the OMS services were moved to the Azure Portal (link), and also because of the planned retirement of the OMS portal. This change will not affect any existing connection to OMS. However, for new connections or to reconfigure existing connections, the relevant management packs that are bundled together with this update rollup must be imported.
- This update rollup creates a new "omi" user (system account).
- XPlat support matrix changes:
- SLES 10 is not supported.
- CentOS 5 is not supported.
- AIX 6.x is not supported.
Lets get started.
From reading the KB article – the order of operations is:
- Install the update rollup package on the following server infrastructure:
- Management Servers
- Audit Collection Server (ACS)
- Web Console Servers
- Gateway Servers
- Operations Console Servers
- Reporting Server
- Apply SQL scripts
- Manually import the management packs
- Apply Agent Updates
- Update Nano Agents
- Update Unix/Linux MP’s and Agents
1. Management Servers
It doesn’t matter which management server I start with. I simply make sure I only patch one management server at a time to allow for agent failover without overloading any single management server.
I can apply this update manually via the MSP files, or I can use Windows Update. I have 2 management servers, and I always recommend a manual installation on management servers, I don’t recommend using Windows Update. My first management server holds 3 roles, and each must be patched: Management Server, Web Console, and Console.
The first thing I do when I download the updates from the catalog, is copy the cab files for my language to a single location, and then extract the contents.
Once I have the MSP files, I am ready to start applying the update to each server by role.
***Note: You MUST log on to each server role as a Local Administrator, SCOM Admin, AND your account must also have System Administrator role to the SQL database instances that host your OpsMgr databases.
My first server is a Management Server, Web Console server, and has the OpsMgr console installed, so I copy those update files locally, and execute them per the KB, from an elevated command prompt:
This launches a quick UI which applies the update. It will bounce the SCOM services as well. The update usually does not provide any feedback that it had success or failure…. but you MIGHT see a reboot prompt. You can choose “No” and then reboot after applying all the SCOM role updates.
You can check the application log for the MsiInstaller events to show completion:
Log Name: Application
Source: MsiInstaller
Event ID: 1036
Description:
Windows Installer installed an update. Product Name: System Center Operations Manager 2016 Server. Product Version: 7.2.11719.0. Product Language: 1033. Manufacturer: Microsoft Corporation. Update Name: System Center 2016 Operations Manager Update Rollup 6 Patch. Installation success or error status: 0.
You can also spot check a couple DLL files for the file version attribute:
Next up – run the Web Console update:
This runs much faster. A quick file spot check:
Lastly – install the Console Update (make sure your console is closed):
A quick file spot check:
Or help/about in the console:
Additional Management Servers:
Apply the UR updates for Server, Web Console, and Console roles as needed for all additional management servers. You should only patch one management server at a time to allow for graceful failover of agents and to keep resource pools stable.
Updating ACS (Audit Collection Services)
One of my management servers is also my ACS Audit Collection Server role. I will apply the update for that:
Note the above image states “Operations Manager 2012”. This is a known issue. Ignore it.
Updated files:
Updating Gateways:
Generally I can use Windows Update or manual installation. I will proceed with manual:
The update launches a UI and quickly finishes.
Then I will spot check the DLL’s:
I can also spot-check the AgentManagement folder, and make sure my agent update files are dropped here correctly:
***NOTE: You can delete any older UR update files from the AgentManagement directories. The UR’s do not clean these up and they provide no purpose for being present any longer.
Updating Reporting:
On your server that hosts the SCOM Reporting role, run the update:
2. Apply the SQL Scripts
In the path on your management servers, where you installed/extracted the update, there is ONE SQL script file:
%SystemDrive%Program FilesMicrosoft System Center 2016Operations ManagerServerSQL Script for Update Rollups
(note – your path may vary slightly depending on if you have an upgraded environment or clean install)
Next – let’s run the script to update the OperationsManager (Operations) database. Open a SQL management studio query window, connect it to your Operations Manager database, and then open the script file (update_rollup_mom_db.sql). Make sure it is pointing to your OperationsManager database, then execute the script.
You should run this script with each UR, even if you ran this on a previous UR. The script body can change so as a best practice always re-run this.
Click the “Execute” button in SQL mgmt. studio. The execution could take a considerable amount of time and you might see a spike in processor utilization on your SQL database server during this operation.
I have had customers state this takes from a few minutes to as long as an hour. In MOST cases – you will need to shut down the SDK, Config, and Monitoring Agent (healthservice) on ALL your management servers in order for this to be able to run with success.
IF YOU GET AN ERROR – STOP! Do not continue. Try re-running the script several times until it completes without errors. In a production environment with lots of activity, you will almost certainly have to shut down the services (sdk, config, and healthservice) on your management servers, to break their connection to the databases, to get a successful run.
3. Manually import the management packs
There are 36 management packs in this update! Most of these we don’t need – so read carefully.
The path for these is on your management server, after you have installed the “Server” update:
Program FilesMicrosoft System Center 2016Operations ManagerServerManagement Packs for Update Rollups
However, the majority of them are Advisor/OMS, and language specific. Only import the ones you need, and that are correct for your language.
This is the initial import list:
What NOT to import:
The Advisor MP’s are only needed if you are using Microsoft Operations Management Suite cloud service, (Previously known as Advisor, and Operations Insights) and have your on premise SCOM environment connected to the cloud service.
DON’T import ALL the languages – ONLY ENU, or any other languages you might require.
The Alert Attachment MP update is only needed if you are already using that MP for very specific other MP’s that depend on it (rare)
The IntelliTrace Profiling MP requires IIS MP’s and is only used if you want this feature in conjunction with APM.
So I remove what I don’t want or need – and I have this:
#Note: If the “Install” button is greyed out – this means you might already have one or more of these MP’s with the same version installed. Find it by scrolling through each one, the console will tell you if you already have the same version.
4. Update Agents
Agents should be placed into pending actions by this update for any agent that was not manually installed (remotely manageable = yes):
If your agents are not placed into pending management – this is generally caused by not running the update from an elevated command prompt, or having manually installed agents which will not be placed into pending by design, OR if you use Windows Update to apply the update rollup for the Server role patch.
You can approve these – which will result in a success or failure message once complete:
You normally can verify the PatchLevel by going into the console and opening the view at: Monitoring > Operations Manager > Agent Details > Agents by Version
I *strongly* recommend you take a look at this community MP, which helps see the “REAL” agent number in the Administration –> Agent Managed view console:
And my SCOM Management Group Management mp (updated for UR6), which will help show you REAL UR levels based on a better discovery. This has long been a pain point in SCOM:
5. Update UNIX/Linux MPs and Agents
The UNIX/Linux MP’s and agents at the time of this article publishing have not changed since SCOM 2016UR3 was released.
You can get the current Unix/Linux MP updates here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=29696
The current version of these MP’s for SCOM 2016 UR6 is 7.6.1089.0 – and includes agents with version 1.6.2-342
Make sure you download the correct version for your SCOM deployment version:
Download, extract, and import ONLY the updated Linux/UNIX MP’s that are relevant to the OS versions that you want to monitor:
In my environment – I only monitor RedHat and Universal Linux distributions, so this is my pared down list of MP’s to update:
This will take a considerable amount of time to import, and consume a lot of CPU on the management servers and SQL server until complete.
Once it has completed, you will need to restart the Healthservice (Microsoft Monitoring Agent) on each management server, in order to get them to update their agent files at Program FilesMicrosoft System Center 2016Operations ManagerServerAgentManagementUnixAgents
You should see the new files dropped with new timestamps:
Now you can deploy the Linux agent updates:
Next – you decide if you want to input credentials for the SSH connection and upgrade, or if you have existing RunAs accounts that are set up to do the job (Agent Maintenance/SSH Account)
If you have any issues, make sure your SUDOERS file has the correct information pertaining to agent upgrade:
https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/kevinholman/2016/11/11/monitoring-unixlinux-with-opsmgr-2016/
6. Update the remaining deployed consoles
This is an important step. I have consoles deployed around my infrastructure – on my Orchestrator server, SCVMM server, on my personal workstation, on all the other SCOM admins on my team, on a Terminal Server we use as a tools machine, etc. These should all get the matching update version.
Review:
Now at this point, we would check the OpsMgr event logs on our management servers, check for any new or strange alerts coming in, and ensure that there are no issues after the update.
Known Issues:
1. The ACS update shows “Operations Manager 2012” in the UI but is actually for SCOM 2016.