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22 05 2009

System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 RTM

Posted by Walter Eikenboom in General

 

As a System Center Operations Manager Specialist I’m happy to tell you all that SCOM 2007 R2 has hit Release to Manufacturing today. The Operations Manager Team has worked for two years to get this version out there. Thank for that!

The SCOM 2007 R2 is a solid piece of work with numerous new and improved features to make it easier to do your daily task in getting a better an more cost effective infrastructure. In this article I will discuss a few of the new improvements and features in R2.

One of the big eye catchers is the cross platform functionality that OpsMgr 2007 R2 provides out of the box. OpsMgr 2007 R2 will integrated touch and feel for both Windows and Unix/Linux based clients. With this integration you can watch your environments health through a single pane of glass.

 

The SCOM 2007 R2 supported cross platform operating systems are:

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9, 10 SP1 (x86)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, 5 (x86)
  • Solaris 8 (SPARC), 9 (SPARC), 10 (SPARC/x86)
  • HP-UX 11iv2, 11iv3 (IA64/PA-RISC)
  • AIX 5.3, 6.1 (POWER)Not only the operating systems on the non windows machines are taken care of the applications are as well. With Managements packs of eg Brideways, Jalasoft, Solarwinds, Dell and HP all layers in the Service level chain are taken care off.With SCOM 2007 monitoring changed from an infrastructure based to Line of business application monitoring. Up time and end user experience where becoming more important what is in line with the vision Microsoft has with their user centered world. With SCOM 2007 R2 this monitoring capability extended with Service level monitoring. Service Level monitoring provides enhances performance management of applications in the IT infrastructure, delivering the ability to granularly define service level objectives that can be targeted against the different components that comprise an IT service.

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    When Service levels are in place the access and security to these IT services becomes more and more interesting. Audit Collection Services ACS gives the insight IT organizations need to drive compliance and investigate un-trusted and unwanted access to there services. ACS provides an integrated solution and with SCOM 2007 R2 the ability to use ACS on no windows systems will broaden de scope as a complete solution for compliancy.

    Ease of operations is always a nice to have but in these times when application updates and product renewal is a day to day operations the ease of use and ease to operate is key for any product. SCOM 2007 R2 even made it a bit easier. A full upgrade from the SCOM 2007 SP1 is supported and all tuning and configuration you have done over the last two years will stay in place. Notifications where simplified and the the latest Management packs will provide reports with easier object selection. Enormous performance increate in console usage, which was a big down side in SCOM 2007 and SCOM 2007 SP1. Even the show updated management pack function as was used in MOM 2005 is back in SCOM 2007 R2. Not as an alert but when importing Management packs from the online catalog you can select the option to show update Management pack which you have installed in your environment.

  •  If you want to tryout all these features in the new version download the System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 evaluation edition. I will get in more detail about some of the new features in some upcoming articles.

    Regards,
    Walter Eikenboom
    http://weblogwally.spaces.live.com

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