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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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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At the MMS in Las Vegas we showed off the new Savision Live Maps Vista gadget, that's going to be part of the new release of Live Maps. We got nothing but great feedback and want to share it with those of you that weren't able to make it to the MMS.

Each gadget shows a summary of the state of a specific view. Using a fly-out you can open the view itself straight from your desktop. The cool thing is you can run multiple instances of the gadget in the sidebar. You don't even need to have the OpsMgr console installed. I find that since I run a set of these gadgets I hardly open the OpsMgr console anymore.

So... this is what it looks like on my desktop.

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.

Updated 10/23/2009 :

If you have Live Maps installed and are planning an upgrade to the OpsMgr R2 please read this article carefully.

The Live Maps v2 and v3 OpsMgr console extensions are not compatible with the OpsMgr R2 console. If you upgrade the OpsMgr console without upgrading the Live Maps console extension the OpsMgr R2 console will throw an 'Could not load type' error.

Here are the steps to successfully upgrade your environment to R2:

Upgrade your backend:

1. Download the Live Maps v4 for OpsMgr R2 here
2. Obtain a Live Maps v4 license key (free edition users can request it here, customers can request an updated key via sales@savision.com)
3. After you have upgraded your RMS to R2 upgrade the Live Maps authoring console and web console to v4.
4. Start the Live Maps authoring console and enter the new license key.

On every computer running the OpsMgr operations console:

1. Uninstall the Live Maps OpsMgr extension
2. Upgrade the OpsMgr console to R2
3. Install the Live Maps v4 OpsMgr R2 extension

If you have any questions regarding this article you can contact us at support@savision.com.

One of the more common questions we get from our customers is if they can rotate a number of views on a single screen. The answer is, yes they can and so can you if you follow these simple instructions.

This can be achieved by a combination of the LiveMaps web console and the html file attached to this blog. Just download the htm file, open it in your favorite html editor, adjust some settings and off you go.

Download the html file using the link below:
Live Maps Rotator HTML file

You can configure two settings, the number of milliseconds you want each view to show and the URLs you want to show.

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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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