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August 20 http://weblog.stranger.nlJanuary 17 Next Version of Xian Network ManagerThe next version of Xian Network Manager is a major breakthrough which will provide smarter device and network monitoring; service oriented monitoring for server applications, a management pack generation technology and powerful new integration with MOM.
Service Oriented Monitoring for Microsoft Exchange Servers will enable the next version of Xian Network Manager to discover the structure of a network which supports an Exchange environment. The Jalasoft technology, which will implement Service Oriented Monitoring for Microsoft Exchange Servers, will enable users to discover Exchange Networks, discover mail paths & monitor them and identify devices & interfaces, thus integrating networks with Exchange servers. This technology will provide alerts and execute tests on the network, streamlining the prevention of problems for Exchange Servers.
Management Pack Generator Technology
The next version of Xian Network Manager in combination with Microsoft Operations Manager, will provide a technology which enables network vendors to generate management packs for Microsoft Operations Manager, through an add-on which will work with Microsoft Visual Studio 2005. This add-on will enable anyone to describe a hierarchical structure of the devices and elements to be monitored, create rules for these, create the management packs and finally generate reports for them.
Integration with the Next Version of MOM
Among the characteristics of the new level of integration you can find; improved state view, service diagrams, custom management packs, new SDK and custom views.
Xian Management and Monad Integration
The new Microsoft Command Shell (Monad) technology makes it now possible to create cmdlets that are embedded in the Operating System Shell. By creating Xian specific cmdlets, users will be able to handle the management of a Xian site through the command line and using management scripts that will be able to run even from MOM tasks.
I'll have to ask my friends of Jalasoft for a preview soon! Is that possible Arnold?
Regards, Stefan New weblog site! Update your configuration!I'm in the proces of moving to a new weblog site! First I had to move to a new provider to get everything running the way I wanted. Thanks to Erik Luppes for that.
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I'll try to update both's weblogs for a while.
Regards, January 11 New MOM 2005 Books!Found on Microsoft Management Product Updates and News newsletter. If you are not subcribed yet do it now!
Another book about MOM 2005, SMS 2003 and Microsoft Update written by Tim Kelly, Randy Holloway, and Telmo Sampaio will be available in May 2006. This book, called Professional MOM 2005, SMS 2003, and Microsoft Update , teaches expert and best practice based security and patch management of Microsoft environments, using any of the three covered Microsoft offerings (Microsoft Operations Manager, Systems Management Server, and Windows Update Service). After detailing installation and configuration of each of the products, it goes beyond these basics to show the methods administrators should implement to keep their systems patched, secure, and up-to-date. Regards, January 06 Microsoft Operations Manager Product ConnectorsMicrosoft Operations Manager Product Connectors now really available!
Yesteday I had a conversation with Skywire Software about their iWave Integrator for Microsoft Operations Manager 2005® solution. Skywire Software's iWave Integrator leverage's MOM's functionality through the use of the MOM Connector framework (MCF). Other systems include Tivoli Enterprise Console, HP OpenView Operations, CA UniCenter, Peregrine Service Center, Remedy Action Request System, and Clarify.
Regards,
December 23 New Management Pack and Product Connector Catalog!Finally!
They changed the Management Pack and Product Connector Catalog website.
Although the separate Connectors Catalog for Operations Manager is redirecting you to the Microsoft Management Home page.
Regards,
Stefan Technical discussion on the process that Microsoft IT uses to plan, develop, and deploy Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) management packs for internal line of business (LOB) applicationsTechnical discussion on the process that Microsoft IT uses to plan, develop, and deploy Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) management packs for internal line of business (LOB) applications. Microsoft IT uses MOM to monitor the health of its infrastructure and applications. Microsoft develops and deploys custom MOM management packs for each of about 400 critical internal LOB applications.
Download at source. December 19 New MOM GotDotNet CodeGallery scriptsModified Storage State Script and NotifyNewOwner scripts.
See for more info GotDotNet CodeGallery.
Regards,
Stefan December 16 MOM rule report per Management PackThis report lists all rules per Management Pack. The management pack is selectable through a dropdownlist and every change in the last 7 days will show up in red and bold. Only downside is that the report uses the OnePoint database and so you have to create a Data Source that points to the OnePoint Database and call it "OnePoint".
Regards,
Stefan December 06 SQL Server Management Pack for MOM 2005The Microsoft SQL Server Management Pack provides both proactive and reactive monitoring of SQL Server 2000 and 2005 in an enterprise environment.
Read more at source. December 02 SNARF, the Social Network and Relationship Finder, from Microsoft ResearchTo many emails? Have a look at SNARF!
Microsoft Research's Community Technology presents SNARF, the Social Network and Relationship Finder.
SNARF was built around the notion that social network information that is already available to the computer system can be usefully reflected to the user: a message from a manager might be seen differently than a message from a stranger, for example. SNARF applies this idea to email triage: handling the flow of messages when time is short and mail is long.
Regards,
Stefan November 22 MOM 2005 Event Log Size monitor VBS scriptPurpose: Monitors the size of any or all Windows Event logs. Creates a Warning alert if the size is above the threshold.
Read more on GotDotNet.
Regards, Stefan Stranger No upgrade path for MOMv3As mentioned earlier Gordon McKenna interviewed Kelly Altom a Microsoft Group Program Manager for MOM.
One of the questions he asked was whether there will be an upgrade path from MOM 2000 to V3? And there will be no upgrade path at all, you should run it as a paralell system and migrate.
Read more at source.
Regards,
Stefan Stranger Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 SLA Scorecard for ExchangeThe Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2005 SLA Scorecard for Exchange provides you with an executive dashboard that you can use to measure and trend service availability and workloads across multiple server roles in an Exchange Server messaging environment. This solution also enables you to define desired service levels and identify the cause of service outages.
Read more on source.
Stefan Stranger November 21 MOMv3 presentation on IT Forum 2005During IT Forum 2005 in Barcelona there was a session about the future of Operations Management. Gordon McKenna wrote an excellent article on Bink.nu about that session. Read more on Bink.nu!
I also went to the same session on Thursday morning 8:00 o'clock! And that was very difficult after being to the Microsoft Country party on Wednesday. 
Great party Tony and Daniel ;-) Thanks for organizing.
Back to the MOMv3 session. MOM Version 3 in summary:
Keep a look at Bink.nu for more information about a interview Gordon had with the MOM team. Regards, Stefan November 14 Just arrived at Microsoft IT Forum in BarcelonaI just arrived at Microsoft's IT Forum in Barcelona! Got my laptop connected via Vodafone Mobile connect so I could blog. We had some trouble getting into our reserved rooms at the Catalonia Princesa Hotel in Barcelona because a whole group of our company already arrived yesterday and someone had taken one of our rooms, but that's sorted now. We probably are going to look at the town tonight and tomorrow Microsoft IT Forum really starts for me. I'll try to blog about some sessions I've attended (mainly Management sessions of course) Regards, Stefan Stranger Drop me a note (stefan.stranger(at)hotmail(dot)com)if you are also visiting IT Forum in Barcelona. November 11 Horizon for SAP Microsoft Operations Manager EditionLast week we had a conversation with some people from Tidal Software about their Horizon for SAP Microsoft Operations Manager Edition solution.
According to their website is Horizon™ for SAP® is more than a simple performance monitor. It actually documents and automates SAP best practices for identifying and analyzing availability and performance problems within SAP. How well SAP performs determines how well your business is running. When a problem is occurring, you need to recognize it, analyze it and implement a recommendation now--not tomorrow. Unlike simple performance monitors, Horizon for SAP does not flood your console with data and assume you have the expertise and time to analyze it. Instead, Horizon for SAP provides an ‘Expert-in-a-Box™’ that performs the types of analysis and recommendations an experienced SAP Administrator would, automatically, 24x7x365 and in real-time. Instead of reacting to complaints, Horizon finally gives you the ability to proactively manage the service of SAP and fix problems before they become critical to your business.
But what I found more interesting is their solution to build 'trees' which could make real correlation possible. With their 'Logical Management Approach' it's possible to:
You could use their Logical Management Approach in their 'trees' to get real service monitoring in MOM! Hopefully I get me hands on their tool to create my own 'trees'. If so I'll let you know more about Tidal Software.
Regards, Stefan Stranger
Who's experience with their Horizon for SAP Microsoft Operations Manager solution? November 08 New Microsoft MOM site for sharing self-created MOM Management Packs, scripts and more from the MOM communityI already wrote about a new Microsoft MOM site for sharing self-created MOM Management Packs, scripts and more from the MOM community in my blog about the Best of Microsoft Management Summit 2005 in the Netherlands Part 1 and now it's there!
Have a look at the Code Gallery for MOM 2005. The CodeGallery is a site where you and other developers, IT professionals, and Microsoft employees can share, find, download, evaluate and discuss evolving .NET applications, uncompiled code, ideas, and technical documents.
Regards,
Stefan Stranger November 07 Update Management Pack CatalogMicrosoft has changed their MOM Management Pack Catalog site. Read more on Ian Blyth's weblog.
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