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.

This video includes sound.

Related article: How-To: Create Dynamic Views by IP Subnet in OpsMgr

There is a free version of Live Maps available, download it now.

More information about Live Maps for Operations Manager 2007 can be found here.