Announcing System Center Operations Manager 2007 Cross Platform Extensions and Connectors

Published 29 April 08 06:24 PM | lsteinberg 

Hello and welcome to the System Center Cross Platform and Interop blog site.  Today Microsoft announced a few new beta products – two of which came from our team.  The System Center Operations Manager 2007 Cross Platform Extensions, which enable customers to manage Unix/Linux systems from Operations Manager 2007, was delivered as a beta today. If you were attending Bob Muglia’s Keynote this morning then you walked away with a CD containing the beta bits. 

 

The second beta announcement from our team was the availability of the System Center Operations Manager 2007 Connectors for HP OpenView (Unix/Windows) and IBM Tivoli Enterprise Console (TEC).  CD’s will be available later this week at MMS.

 

Both betas are available on http://connect.microsoft.com – sign in or sign up, then click 'connection directory' and look for "System Center TAP/Beta".  If you’re attending MMS, then stop by and see us at the Operations Manager 2007 Pod.  You can also attend the two breakout sessions:

- SO20 - System Center Operations Manager 2007 Cross Platform Extensions 

- SO09 - Connectors for System Center: The Microsoft Interop Strategy

 

Also, there’s a hands on lab for the Cross Platform Extensions at MMS – details will follow later.  Tonight there will be a birds of a feather session - BO03 Integrating with Microsoft Systems in a Mixed Environment (Windows, Linux, OSX etc).

 

If you happen to be at ‘Interop Las Vegas’ down the street at Mandalay Bay, then stop by and see us at the Microsoft booth.

 

We look forward to keeping this site updated with information, tips, and tricks about these new products from our group.  Please check us out often.

 

The Cross Plat and Interop team

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# Joe Shmo said on April 29, 2008 3:03 PM:

I can't find them on the Connect Site

# lsteinberg said on April 29, 2008 10:20 PM:

Sign in to connect or sign up and then go to 'connection directory'. Look for "System Center TAP/Beta".

# Adam said on April 30, 2008 11:14 AM:

A breif description of what functionality is available would be nice.  It would save me some time if all it does is check disk space.

# John said on April 30, 2008 1:30 PM:

Which protocol(s) does it use to "manage Unix/Linux systems" -- I mean to speak with the *nix machines?

Thanks for your answer.

# BarryShilmover said on April 30, 2008 2:24 PM:

All communication between the Unix/Linux systems and Operations Manager is done using industry standard protocols, either WS-Management or SSH.

We use SSH for the initial discovery and deployment and for some recovery tasks.  All of the monitoring (discovery, health, performance) uses WS-Management.

# Sacha Dawes said on April 30, 2008 2:37 PM:

Links to documents, information, and instructions on how to download the Beta.  Operations Manager 2007 goes Cross Platform!

# Steve Pyatt said on April 30, 2008 4:26 PM:

I have it installed and I'm impressed so far. This is an excellent step.

# Mark Carlson said on April 30, 2008 5:50 PM:

Congratulations guys! Great stuff. Welcome to the party and I will look for you on the Pegasus reflectors.

# Magnus said on May 1, 2008 8:59 AM:

What do I have to install on the *nix machine?

# BarryShilmover said on May 1, 2008 10:13 AM:

Everything you need to install are included in the package.  We have included RPM files for Linux, pkg for Solaris, and depot for HP-UX.  

Within the packages, there are three components; OpenWSMan, OpenPegasus, and our OpenPegasus providers.  The first two are open source projects, the last one we are working on open sourcing to the community.

You will find the *nix packages in a 'UnixAgents.zip' file.  That needs to be extracted to the .\Program Files\System Center Operations Manager 2007\AgentManagement folder.

# Microsoft Hosting Partner Technical Advisor Blog! said on May 6, 2008 5:41 PM:

Do you want MOM to ALSO manage your Linux and/or UNiX Environment? No problem. Today, with Microsoft

# Wim Verreyken said on May 16, 2008 1:28 AM:

Very nice work guys! I can not wait for the next beta to be released (especially an AIX mp :)

Keep up the good work!

# Audrius J. said on May 16, 2008 2:59 AM:

Hello,

great news !!! Are you planning to release SCOM 2007 connector for BMC ARS Remedy?

Thanks.

# KevinMuldoon said on May 16, 2008 11:02 AM:

Yes, we are planning an OpsMgr 2007 Connector to BMC ARS Remedy .  We will release information regarding it later this year.  

# Michaël BERTUIT Passion for SCCM / SCOM2007 said on May 17, 2008 11:06 PM:

If you haven't heard about it already, you surely soon will! At this morning's keynote at MMS

# Dirk Roosen said on August 21, 2008 11:30 AM:

Hi Guys I got a question to you, do you know if is possible integrate my reports from SCCM 2007 with Spectrum Solutions? I need control the alerts and events from just one console and right now the major solution is Spectrum, so I would have the information collected by SCCM 2007 forwarded to Spectrum server.

Kindly Reards,

Dirk Roosen.

# KevinMuldoon said on August 21, 2008 12:17 PM:

Dirk,

Currently we do not have connectors for SCCM 2007.  We are looking at developing them, and will add Spectrum Solutions to the list to be prioritized.  Can you expand on what alerts/events/data you want to have forwarded from SCCM 2007?

Thanks!

# Rickard said on October 10, 2008 7:03 AM:

We have problems getting this to work on Aix 5.3 -anybody managed to get scx-wsmand subsystem up and running ?. It starts ok - then it stops.

The scx-cimd subsystem starts fine.

Also, the configfiles is can find are 0 bytes.

I can start the scxopenwsmand process manually - but i think the basic config is missing.

Tried deployement as well as manual installation - with the same result.

# Port 25: The Open Source Community at Microsoft said on November 19, 2008 1:16 AM:

It is two years this month since Microsoft and Novell struck their ground-breaking technical collaboration

# adam said on January 13, 2009 4:42 PM:

This doesn't seem to be available for download anymore. Is that correct?

# BarryShilmover said on January 20, 2009 10:38 AM:

Adam,

It is now part of Operations Manager 2007 R2 Beta.  It is still available on Connect.

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