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Silect Software (http://www.silect.com/) has released MP Studio 2007 for Operations Manager 2007.

Below is a list of features/benefits stated by their E-mail announcement.

You can download the evaluation copy from here: http://www.silect.com/products/product_info.php

MP Studio 2007 Key Features

Manage overrides to increase operational effectiveness

Quickly and easily review Management Packs before implementation

Manage and track changes to Management Packs to avoid unexpected changes in service monitoring

Understand the differences between Management Packs

Create override Management Packs

MP Studio 2007 Key Benefits

Ensure your service level management objectives are effectively met

Manage customizations to your environment using MP Studio’s extensive override management capabilities

A new version of the Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 Management Pack is now available

Version: 6.0.5000.11Date Published: 6/29/2007

Update version addressing problems with empty alert parameter data in self-tuning threshold monitors, and discovery issues on Exchange 2003 running in a clustered setup. The library MP is unchanged from the initial release.

Download here

Monitoring Microsoft

A blog about using SCOM in Microsoft IT.

System Center Operations Manager 2007 is now available for download for those with MSDN subscription.

I just got an e-mail from Nworks stating that the MP for VMware for Operations Manager 2007 has been released. Word on the street is that this is the best tool on the market for Monitoring VMware ESX 2.5 and 3.0 using System Center Operations Manager 2007. I will be reviewing this add on in the coming weeks. I am not a huge fan of using 3rd party tools, but ESX is essential to our environment so this may be worth it.

http://www.nworks.com/index.php

There is a bug when you try to create dynamic groups using the formula wizard. When you try to create a group an and us the Insert OR Group everything look fine until your select OK and then it changes your formula from a pipe (for OR) to an AND.

Here is the work around from Microsoft.

This is a known issue that we are tracking. As a work around in your case – after you add ‘Windows Operating System’ to the formula grid, right click on ‘AND group for Windows Operating System’ and select ‘Switch to Or group’.

Microsoft has just released the Operations Manager 2007 Design Guide to their download website.

This is really worth the read. The paper has good information about sizing, especially hardware requirements versus number of agents, which can be a real pain point for your deployment, if sized too small.

Download it here:http://download.microsoft.com/download/7/4/d/74deff5e-449f-4a6b-91dd-ffbc117869a2/OpsMgr2007_DesignGuid.doc

System Center Operations Manager 2007: Introduction

System Center Operations Manager 2007: Advanced Topics

Monitoring Web Applications with the MOM 2005 Web Sites and Services Management Pack

Managing Exchange and Active Directory with Operations Manager

The Dell Management Pack for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager integrates Dell PowerEdge server alerts into Ops Manager.

The Management Pack provides a list of Dell-specific views that you can use to observe and drill down the system status in a network.

LINK

To create a certificate to seal a managment pack.

1.) Generate a key file –

D:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\SDK\v2.0\Bin>sn -k mykey.snk

Microsoft (R) .NET Framework Strong Name Utility Version 2.0.50727.42
Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
Key pair written to mykey.snk

2.) Extract Public key from the key file into another file –

D:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\SDK\v2.0\Bin>sn -p mykey.snk outfile
Microsoft (R) .NET Framework Strong Name Utility Version 2.0.50727.42
Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
Public key written to outfile

3.) Extract the public key token (64 bit hash of the public key) from Public Key –

D:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\SDK\v2.0\Bin>sn -tp outfile
Microsoft (R) .NET Framework Strong Name Utility Version 2.0.50727.42
Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

Public key is
0024000004800000940000000602000000240000525341310004000001000100ad4e339a2fd­e25 a78de93a363eebbaf755c043fdb44d8ce64a732b0cb24f66cddcbb97bd3966b375d04bef871­d10 c05cbf5213a02ef472feedf4f4855a8a3c5d0116326845d1d2b744b1245d7a24d0ad78d64e0­56911f810e165dd4aed6d05994f2a307a3ecc0a50bd7c5aa16afe123bdd0dc3f9c8aa06d14133f­b9a4cf4f7a2

Public key token is 36c8fd01b281c793

Now u can use the key file (mykey.snk) to seal your MP using MPSeal utility.

Seal your management pack

MPSeal.exe Microsoft.SQLServer.xml /I c:\mps /Keyfile mykey.snk /Company “Microsoft Corporation”