System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Cumulative Update 5 (CU5)

Since beginning of August the Cumulative Update 5 for SCOM is RTM. Now I have some experience with it and so I recommend to perform the update (or at least think about it).

Here is what MS addresses in this update:

Cumulative Update 5 for Operations Manager 2007 R2 resolves the following issues:

• Restart of non-Operations Manager services when the agent is updated.
• Updated ACS reports.
• TCP Port Probe incorrectly reports negative ping latency.
• MissingEvent Manual Reset Monitor does not work as expected.
• Drillthrough fails because of rsParameterTypeMismatch in the EnterpriseManagementChartControl.
• ACS - Event log message is truncated or corrupted in SCDW.
• UI hang caused by SDK locking.
• ACS Filter fails for certain wildcard queries.
• Edit Schedule button is disabled with SQL 2008 R2.
• Web console times out when you open the left navigation tree.
• Scheduled Reports view for Windows Server 2003 and for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services SP3 CU9 returns "System.IndexOutOfRangeException: Index was outside the bounds of the array."
• Signed MPs cannot be imported when new attributes are added to existing classes.

Cross Platform Cumulative Update 5 for Operations Manager 2007 R2 resolves the following issues:

• Performance data for LVM managed partitions is not available.
• Process monitor does not keep name if run by using symbolic link.
• AIX with large number of processes crashes with bad alloc.

Cross Platform Cumulative Update 5 for Operations Manager 2007 R2 adds the following feature:

• Support for Red Hat 6

You can find the bits here:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2495674

Within CU5 there is only the agent for RH6. You'll find the MP here:

http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=18891

As in the past Kevin Holman blogged already about how to perform the update step by step.

You find the blog post here:

OpsMgr 2007 R2 CU5 rollup hotfix ships - and my experience installing it

Kevin also wrote a blog for those of you who'd like to deploy the CU automatically:

Command line and software distribution patching scenarios for applying an OpsMgr Cumulative Update

Great work, Kevin – thanks for that!

Good luck!

All information is provided "as is" without any warranty! Try in lab before. Handle with care in production.