Microsoft has announced the new version of Analysis Services and Reporting Services Management Packs. They also released a new SQL Server Dashboards Management Pack, which includes the dashboard components, which is being used in order to get integrated with the SQL Server family of MPs. With this release, the company is decoupling the dashboards from the rest of MPs.
The company in its official blog states,
“We are happy to announce that new versions of Analysis Services and Reporting Services Management Packs have been released!
We are also releasing a new SQL Server Dashboards Management Pack that includes the dashboard components you are used to getting integrated with the SQL Server family of MPs. With this release, we are decoupling the dashboards from the rest of the MPs. By having the dashboard as a separate download, when we release a new and improved version of the dashboard, customers will be able to download and apply it to all of their existing MPs such as SQL, Replication, AS, and RS. This separation will also allow us to update the UI components more frequently and as needed.
We are also updating the localized versions for AS and RS to be compatible with this release (existing localized MPs will not work with this release due to some internal changes). Fully localized MPs will be released at a later date.”
New AS MP Features and Fixes are as stated below:
- Updated references and removed deprecated elements to support 6.6.4.0+ visualization library
- Fixed bug when SSAS Monitoring Pack could not collect OS performance counters with localized names
- Updated discoveries to throw errors in case of some problems detected during the discovery
- Fixed module error collection on cluster instances to reduce the noise
- Changed defaults for CPU Usage monitor, added sampling to Memory Usage on the server monitor
- Reduced inner complexity of modules
- Fixed the discoveries; now the last items can be undiscovered
- Simplified the dashboard to make it quicker and more informative
- Reviewed and updated the Knowledge Bases
