Looking at OpsMgr R2 - Managing X-Plat

Another great new feature in OpsMgr R2 is the ability to manage Unix, Linux, HP UX and IBM AIX servers.  What is paricularly great about this feature is that once a X-Plat server has been discovered it is available as an object within OpsMgr as a Windows server is which enables you to add X-Plat servers to your existing distributed applications. 

In OpsMgr SP1 you could have downloaded the X-Plat Extensions Beta to monitor X-Plat but this required a seperate discovery and agent installation method.  Within R2, you can now discover X-Plat servers as easily as you discover Windows servers. Here are a small video to give you a taster for how easy this is.

http://wmug.co.uk/media/p/1825.aspx

As stated above, once X-Plat servers have been discovered you can manage them just as you would a Windows server.  Objects will be created for the server, processor, logical disk etc etc which you can add to your distributed applications to enable you to monitor all components of your service.

And moving forward you can create new monitors, rules and tasks etc just as you would for Windows providing you have some knowledge of the X-Plat product you are working with as all management pack objects are stored in XML management packs just as with Windows.

If you have X-Plat in your environment, I strongly recommend you give Operations Manager 2007 R2 a go.

Here are the non-Windows operating systems currently supported in OpsMgr R2 RTM:

• HP-UX 11i v2 and v3 (PA-RISC and IA64)

• Sun Solaris 8 and 9 (SPARC) and Solaris 10 (SPARC and x86)

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (x86) and 5 (x86/x64) Server

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (x64) Server

• Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 (x86) and 10 SP1 (x86/x64)
  

• Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 (x64)

• IBM AIX 5L V5.3 and V6.1 (PowerPC)