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.

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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Like every year Savision will be present in the exhibiting hall of the Microsoft Management Summit in Las Vegas (26-30 April). You can find us at booth 225 where we will have Live Maps v3 for Operations Manager 2007 on display.

This year you will also be able to learn more about Live Maps in two break-out sessions:

SO33: OpsMgr 2007 R2: Driving Compliance with ACS

TS40: ISV Solutions for Cross-platform Monitoring, Regulatory Auditing and Advanced Visualizations

See you in Vegas!

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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