Managing Applications with Service Maps in Service Manager 2010

This TechNet webcast demonstrate how Service Manager 2010 can integrate with Operations Manager 2007 R2 to import Service Maps such as your Messaging Application, Directory Services, Web Portal application and more ... into Service Manager and lets you extend information like Service Owner, Users who uses the service/application, incidents & change requests for the service and more.

This lets you as the IT Service Manager to be able to view the CI relationship of the infrastructure that supports the service and at the same time lets you assess the business impact shall the IT service fails and also helps you perform activities like root cause analysis and more ... in summary, Service Maps lets you have a visualization on your IT Services and able to quickly assess the business impact of the service so that you will be able to perform quick remediation activities to bring back the service up ASAP.

Enough talk ... enjoy ....

http://edge.technet.com/Media/Managing-Applications-with-Service-Maps-in-System-Center-Service-Manager-2010/

SPEAK YOUR MIND & BE HEARD BY THE PRODUCT TEAM

If you want to have your thoughts on OpsMgr to be heard by the product team directly, now you can do it.

The team has just launched a connect portal that let's you feedback (good or bad) to the team and have them heard ... a luxury that only TAP partners used to have ... but now have been extended to general public.

You can access the portal via the following link:
https://connect.microsoft.com/opsmgr

Also the announcement of the New Connect Site portal can be seen here

Storage Server 2008 Default Password

Windows Storage Server 2008 does not let administrator to provide a password during installation. Hence when the installation is done you get this big question running in your head ... what's the password???

Well, for those who are lazy to read the installation guide ... like me :P

The default password for Storage Server 2008 is (case sensitive):

wSS2008!

And don't forget to change the password once you are logged in :P

Operations Manager 2007 R2 - Sizing Helper

The OpsMgr R2 Sizing Helper lets us work out capacity sizing & planning for OpsMgr R2 deployment.

http://blogs.technet.com/momteam/archive/2009/08/12/operations-manager-2007-r2-sizing-helper.aspx

Bridgeways announced the release of MP for R2

Bridgeways recently announced that they have released 4 new Management Packs for OpsMgr R2. Focusing on extending monitoring capabilities for OpsMgr R2 in non Windows Application & Database servers, Bridgeways Management Pack offerings includes

• JBoss Application Server
• Oracle Database Server
• MySQL Database Server
• Apache HTTP Web Server

And guess what, they even have MP to monitor VMWare ESX without needing to go through Virtual Center !

As I am blogging my post here, I actually had their MP configured to monitor a customer's Apache Web Server...

For more information on the product drop by at theor product info page here
And their technical blog here