From http://blogs.msdn.com/scxplat/archive/2008/04/29/announcing-system-center-operations-manager-2007-cross-platform-extensions-and-connectors.aspx

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/ – search for systemcenter. 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

You can download the Cross Platform Extensions Beta through Microsoft Connect. To help you navigate to the right spot, follow these directions:

• Go to Microsoft Connect, and log in.
• Click on Connection Directory at the top menu.
• Scroll down the list of categories to System Center TAP/Beta.
• Within this category you will see the Program, “Operations Manager Public Beta (Cross Platform and Interop)”. Click Apply Now.
• Complete the survey, and then you’re in and can download the Ops Mgr Cross Plat Beta!

The System Center Management Pack Authoring Console 2007 has been released to the Web!

The web package can be downloaded from these links:

http://download.microsoft.com/download/f/4/3/f438d6a0-290c-42b8-8f9c-c6660f89e1aa/OpsMgr07_x64_AuthConsole.exe

http://download.microsoft.com/download/f/4/3/f438d6a0-290c-42b8-8f9c-c6660f89e1aa/OpsMgr07_x86_AuthConsole.exe

UPDATE: NEW MP for cluster services (MSCS) monitoring was released!

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=AC7F42F5-33E9-453D-A923-171C8E1E8E55&displaylang=en

What is included with this release:
· Bug fixes monitoring of cluster resource group and cluster resource when name contains special character.
· Bug fixes for proper recognition of partially online cluster resource group.
· Bug fixes for noisy level of disk resource monitoring.
· Bug fixes for proper account usage with all discovery workflows (Cluster profile which needs to be populated when default action account doesn’t hold enough privileges to monitor cluster.)
· Preparation for Windows 2008 Failover Cluster management pack (type space and base functionality is shared between Win2k3 and Win2k8 cluster infra monitoring)
· Additional work including some further minor changes …

Following management pack files are available with this release:
Microsoft.Windows.Cluster.Management.Library.mp (6.0.6277.1)
Microsoft.Windows.Cluster.Management.Monitoring.mp (6.0.6277.1)
Microsoft.Windows.2003.Cluster.Management.Library.mp (6.0.6277.1)
Microsoft.Windows.2003.Cluster.Management.Monitoring.mp (6.0.6277.1)

Similarly to previous version, please follow these steps before importing management packs to meet requirements:

If you have installed, remove any and all versions of following management pack files prior to importing version included with this release:
· Microsoft.Windows.2003.Cluster.Management.Monitoring
· Microsoft.Windows.2003.Cluster.Management.Library
· Microsoft.Windows.Cluster.Management.Monitoring
· Microsoft.Windows.Cluster.Management.Library

NOTE: unfortunately with upcoming release of Windows 2008 Failover Cluster Management Packs, breaking change had to be introduced with Cluster Views and minor change in discovery, where such regrettably prohibits importing new version over any prior imported management packs.

Following are steps required to delete said management packs:
1. Navigate to the Administration Space.
2. Select Management Packs.
3. Select Windows 2003 Cluster Management Monitoring, right-click and select Delete, click Yes.
4. Select Windows 2003 Cluster Management Library, right-click and select Delete, click Yes.
5. Select Windows Cluster Management Monitoring, right-click and select Delete, click Yes.
6. Select Windows Cluster Management Library, right-click and select Delete, click Yes.

Before you import the Windows Server 2003 Cluster Management Pack, please do following actions too:

· Import the Windows Server 2003 Base Operating System Management Pack.

· Enable the Agent Proxy on all agents which are installed on servers that are members of a cluster if it was not enabled already.

Based on OpsMgr 2007 SKU, this is quick reminder about dependencies:

· OpsMgr 2007 RTM (version 06.0.5000.0000):QFE needs to be applied and Microsoft.Windows.Cluster.Library management pack needs to be imported immediately after binaries on cluster nodes changed. This is required due to dependency on cluster user profile in the case action account has no access to cluster administration and profile needs to be manually populated to allow monitoring of MSCS as well as hot fix required for WMI event provider used with cluster infrastructure monitoring. (QFE is also included with released package)

· OpsMgr 2007 SP1 RC (version 06.0.6246.0000):No special requirements for runtime are required. But it is required to import Microsoft.Windows.Cluster.Library from QFE (again, it is also attached to web released package). This makes sure you can simply follow steps to download files and successfully import management packs.

· OpsMgr 2007 SP1 RTM (version 06.0.6278.0000):No special requirements are to be met. All referenced management packs are at their latest version. Simply follow steps to download management pack files and import all except Microsoft.Windows.Cluster.Library.