OpsMgr R2 Upcoming Solutions: Novell Suse Management Pack

At MMS this year, i had a chat with Alex at the Novell booth and he also showed me a demo on what's coming in the Novell System Center Management Pack for Suse Linux Enterprise Server (SLES).

The Management Pack contains ready monitors for BIND/DNS, DHCP, Samba, OpenLDAP, SUSE Firewall and CUPS.

Plucking the following info from the Novell Beta MP program, here is what Novell says that the MP will include:

• Discovery of SLES servers based on MS Cross platform discovery wizard
• Automatic deployment of plug-ins for the management agent
• For all services to report the state of the service running vs not-running
• For all services to stop/start/restart the service
• View alerts for most services
• Keep track of allocated IP addresses by DHCP service
• Statistical information for BIND/DNS service
• Able to monitor Samba shares, connections, sessions
• Provides connection information for OpenLDAP

I hope to find time to test this soon and report on it

Operations Manager R2 announced at Tech ED Barcelona!

I wish i was there... sigh.. Barcelona.. the sun... spanish girls in bikini... OH and of course.. Tech Ed.

Thanks to those that posted in comments about what they wanted to see in R2 in an earlier post. I'm happy to inform that some of those comments were taken very seriously and it was announced in Barcelona that R2 would include some very nice additions and improvements.

Some of which are the Cross Platform inclusion that allows monitoring of Unix & Linux, Service Level Dashbard improvement and some new features. The announcement was made by Barry Shilmover.

You can view the video here... http://edge.technet.com/Media/Operations-Manager-with-Barry-Shilmover/

And the official announcement... http://technet.microsoft.com/en-ca/opsmgr/dd239186.aspx

Timeline?... within H1 of 2009. Watch this blog for updates once we've got more info :)