With every view that is build using Live Maps an OpsMgr group is created containing all the objects that are on the Live Maps view. You can use these groups for different purposes, for example target the group for security, reporting, service level tracking or for setting maintenance mode.

In this article it will give a few code examples to extract information about Live Maps groups using Powershell.

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The other day I got a question from a customer that wanted to know if it was possible to use Live Maps with the new OpsMgr R2 Service Level Tracking feature. The answer was simple, yes you can.

In this article I will give a step-by-step instruction how to configure Service Level Tracking on a Live Maps view and show the results using the Service Level Tracking report in OpsMgr and the Service Level Dashboard in SharePoint.

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Savision will be present at Teched Europe in Berlin, 9-13 november. We will be demostrating our System Center solution at booth E26. Make sure you pay us a visit and win a Sony eReader!

To learn more about Live Maps you can also visit the following breakout session where Savision will be co-presenting with Microsoft:

MGT02-DEMO : Extending Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 through Partner Solutions, Tue 11/10 | 12:20-13:00 | Helsinki - Hall 7-2a.

More info about Teched can be found here.

We are proud to announce the release of Live Maps 4.1 for Operations Manager R2. This update contains, besides some fixes and performance improvements, a number of new features that have been added based on customer feedback. Some of the new features are highlighted in this article, a complete overview can be found in the release notes.

The new release can be downloaded here. If you are upgrading from Live Maps v2 or v3 a new license key is needed. Free edition user can request an updated key here, customers can request a new key by sending an email to sales@savision.com.

Feature Highlight

Health Details

A feature has been added to the Live Maps drawing view that allows you to optionally display the health details of a nested map or object. The details show the number of child objects in a particular state and the total number of open alerts.

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The Queensland Department of Education and Training (DET) Strategic Information Technologies serves the quintessential distributed work force, consisting of some 1.300 individual schools, more than 50 district offices, as many as 16 technical colleges, and other education related sites. With an Active Directory implementation storing nearly 500.000 user accounts, 150.000 computer objects and 2.500 servers the DET IT department faces a real challenge to keep this environment under control.

Read this case study and learn how DET uses System Center Operations Manager 2007 with Savision Live Maps to gain visability and get in control.

“This not only give us visibility to alerts, it shows us all of the dependencies on the alert. It was impossible to get this critical information so quickly before Live Maps.” Nicholas Long, Manager, Enterprise Platform and Development, DET.

Last week our partner OpsLogix released their Intelligent Management Pack for BlackBerry.

The Intelligent Management Pack for BlackBerry checks the status of your BlackBerry Enterprise Server infrastructure as a whole, checking every individual component providing a comprehensive state and performance view for your BlackBerry Enterprise Server infrastructure. Furthermore, it not only alerts & reports on BlackBerry Enterprise Server issues, but also monitors the most critical component; the SRP connection to RIM.

Besides offering the first native solution for BlackBerry monitoring with Operations Manager Opslogix uses Live Maps technology from Savision to offer a graphical health overview of the BlackBerry infrastructure. Check out their website for more information.

Today we posted the recording of the System Center Operations Manager ISV Über Demo, ISV solutions for cross-platform monitoring, regulatory auditing and advanced visualizations.

There are over forty minutes of demos and everything is running on SCOM R2! This is a great session for Microsoft field, partners and SCOM users that shows real world examples of how to get the most out of your System Center investment leveraging native third party solutions like BridgeWays, Savision and Secure Vantage Technologies.

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The default refresh rate of the Live Maps web console is every 5 minutes. This default can be overridden by editing the web.config file in the installation directory of the web console (typically ”C:\Program Files\Savision\Live Maps v3\Web Console”). Follow the following instructions to change the refresh rate:

- Open the web.config file using a text editor (e.g. notepad.exe).
- Look for the "ViewAutoRefresh" setting.
- Change the value. The value represents the refresh rate in minutes. The minimum value is 1, maximum value is 999.
- Save the file.

Audible alarms are a good way of getting attention in your NOC when a critical issue is detected.

In this article I will explain how to configure audible alarms in System Center Operations Manager 2007 with Savision Live Maps and how you can add your own custom sounds.

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System Center Operations Manager 2007 is a great platform to extend into the network monitoring space. Switching to a single monitoring platform allows you to save money and create a single pane of glass for all your operations folks.

When you introduce OpsMgr to the network team you will very likely get the question to display the network devices in a topology view. The video included in this article explains how to achieve this using two ISV products; Jalasoft Xian Io Network Manager and Savision Live Maps.

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This year at MMS we held a great breakout session and showcased how System Center Operations Manager can be optimized with partner solutions to address cross platform monitoring, security and compliance plus enhanced visualizations. Given the feedback and community requests we decided to host two live webcasts next month on June 3rd, at 7am and 1pm PST, to redo the ISV Über Demo.

Don’t miss this great opportunity to see firsthand how easily SCOM can be extended to address real world business problems, reduce complexity and TCO for IT, all while maximizing your ROI in System Center.

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One of the great features of Microsoft Operations Manager 2007 is to create health models for your IT services. In some cases however you might be looking for a way to create a geographical representation of the health of your monitored devices.

The video in this article shows you how you can create dynamic views per IP subnet by using Savision Live Maps for Operations Manager 2007 including an import of site and subnet information from Active Directory.

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Today Windows IT Pro, the authoritative and independent resource for everything Windows, named Savision Live Maps (Live Maps) the number one add-on for Microsoft Operations Manager 2007 (OpsMgr). In an article written by Cameron Fuller, OpsMgr MVP and author of System Center Operations Manager 2007 Unleashed, Windows IT Pro lists and ranks the five must have extensions for OpsMgr, putting Live Maps in first place.

Live Maps allows IT organizations to easily conceive, build and maintain large-scale monitoring maps. Wizards and templates allow IT professionals to quickly construct dynamically updated network and application topologies, geographical views, complex business processes and executive dashboards. A seamless integration into the OpsMgr console, integration with Sharepoint, a full featured web console and a soon to be released Vista gadget ensure that employees at all levels, from the IT operator to the business executive, have access to the information needed to proactively manage IT problems.

Read the whole article at the Windows IT pro website.

We are proud to announce that the Dell has chosen Savision Live Maps v3 to be a part of their global monitoring service offering. Within this service offering Dell engineers install and configure Microsoft Operations Manager 2007 in combination with the latest version of Live Maps.

Dell is a very important partner for us, as they have presence in many of the fortune 500 companies. These fortune 500 companies benefit the most from our solution as they tend to have the most complex IT environments.

For more information on the Dell Service Offerings visit the Dell website.