Cisco UCS Management Pack troubleshooting

We are running SCOM 2012 R2 and we recently tried to set up monitoring for our Cisco UCS environment. We had some difficulty, after importing the management pack and setting up the config we were seeing these alerts within SCOM:

(https://fqdn:443) [Cisco.Ucsm.Proxy.LoadCache.ProbeAction.ps1] Could not load file or assembly 'file:///C:\Windows\TEMP\e1jdhj04.dll' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.

After extensive research and much banging of heads we discovered that the resolution was to allow the Operations Management Action Account (svc_OMAA in our case) read/write permissions to C:\Windows\Temp on the SCOM management server!

Where has the System Centre Management service gone?

Have been doing some work with System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) 2012 R2 this week and after some changes I had to restart the SCOM agent service to make them take effect.  Only I couldn't find the "System Center Management" service to do this however, it appears Microsoft has rebranded the service and it's now called the "Microsoft Monitoring Agent" service.

Along with the rebranding of the service, Microsoft have added functionality to the agent.  It now has standalone features.

To get more information about MMA and it’s new functionalities here are some useful links:

• How to enable MMA for standalone functionality
• Download location of MMA as a separate product
• Monitoring with MMA explained (TechNet)