Jalasoft Xian IO and Savision Live Maps extend Operations Manager 2007 functionality through heterogeneous monitoring coupled with service level views of application and system availability.

Jalasoft has published a whitepaper that describes how to use Xian IO and Live Maps in concert to achieve greater visibility into the state of your non-Windows infrastructure. (continue at source)

All custom views you create with Savision Live Maps for Operations Manager 2007 can be automatically viewed using the OpsMgr Operations Console and the Live Maps Web Console. The views will not automatically appear in the OpsMgr Web Console.

In case you do want the Live Maps views to be published in the OpsMgr Web Console this article explains how this can be done.

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The Netherlands - Tuesday, March 17, 2009 Savision B.V., the leader in Microsoft® System Center Operations Manager visualization, today announced the availability of a free version of Live Maps for Microsoft Operations Manager 2007. Microsoft Operations Manager administrators everywhere can now benefit from the extraordinary visualization capabilities of Live Maps v3. The free version is fully functional and allows IT organizations to create three maps of any type.

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Savision Live Maps for Operations Manager 2007 is the platform to create customized state views on top of OpsMgr. These views can be shared with different groups within your organisation using the Live Maps web console. The Live Maps web views can also be easily integrated in a SharePoint portal.

In this article I will explain how you can integrate a Live Maps web view in a SharePoint portal.

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Live Maps for Operations Manager 2007 is on display at the Cebit in Hannover Germany. With 4,300 exhibiting firms from 69 countries on hand Cebit is really the No. 1 marketplace for digital solutions, trends and innovations - and has the biggest and best conference program for the ICT community.

Live Maps is shown as part of a new green solution created by Rittal and Microsoft.

Read more about this green solution at the Rittal website.

With Savision Live Maps for Operations Manager 2007 you are able to create health state aware nested views in System Center Operations Manager 2007. The default state rollup algorithm for a Live Maps view is set to ‘Worst Of’, meaning that the worst state of any object in the nested view is represented as the consolidated state on the top level view.

In this article I will explain how you can change the default state rollup behavior of a Live Maps view from ‘Worst Of’ to ‘Best Of’.

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