You can find the System Center Service Manager 2012 Monitoring Pack here: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=29980
However, be aware that it only supports System Center Operations Manager 2012 and does not work with SCOM 2007.
Microsoft has released the updated (v6.1.7000.277) System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Cross Platform Management Packs that enable discovering, monitoring, and managing UNIX-based and Linux-based computers by using the same interface and tools that you use to manage your Windows-based computers.
These updated MPs are also referenced to as Cumulative Update #3 (CU#3).
Click the following link to download the MP files for AIX, HP-UX, Red Hat Enterprise, Solaris, and SLES.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=b7af6707-ce3f-4401-8b61-760facabcd54
The Provance IT Asset Management Pack is a Process Management Pack that runs within the forthcoming Microsoft System Center Service Manager 2010 to provide Software and IT Asset Management. The supplemental capability provided by the Provance IT Asset Management Pack allows Microsoft System Center customers to take control of IT costs, improve IT Service Management efficiency and reduce security and compliance risks. It extends Microsoft System Center Service Manager with additional functionality to manage the financial, contractual and organizational information necessary to support Software Asset Management, License Compliance, IT Asset Life Cycle Management, and more cost-effective and efficient IT Service Management.
“The IT Asset Management capability that Provance delivers to Microsoft System Center customers further strengthens and extends our knowledge-driven IT management solutions and showcases the tremendous extensibility of System Center.” – Larry Orecklin, General Manager, System Center and Virtualization Marketing, Microsoft
The Provance IT Asset Management Pack will be available concurrent to the release of Microsoft System Center Service Manager in the first half of 2010. The Beta 1 release of the Provance IT Asset Management Pack is now available to qualified participants in the company’s beta testing and evaluation program. The program is open to Microsoft partners, customers and internal staff participating in the Microsoft System Center Service Manager Beta 2 program who have expertise in managing IT environments with Microsoft System Center solutions.
Register for beta updates or apply to participate in the beta program.
The System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Cross Platform Cumulative Update 2 has been released. It includes the System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Cross Platform Agent Update (KB973583) and additional bug fixes. For full details, visit http://bit.ly/bf78O3.
From Lumagate.com:
Microsoft has now released Audit Collection Service for UNIX and Linux. With Cross Platform ACS you can collect and audit events from UNIX and Linux server, store it in the ACS database and use the audit report that comes whit the package.
Feature Summary
Collection of Audit events from UNIX/Linux server, including:
o AIX 5.3/6.1
o HP-UX 11iv2/11iv3
o Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4/5
o SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9/10/11
o Solaris 8/9/10
Built in Audit Repots including:
o Access violations – unsuccessful logon attempts
o Account creation/deletion/password change
o Administrator activity – su, sudo
o Forensic – all events for a computer/event ID
o User logons
The Active Directory team has just released an updated version of the Operations Management Pack for Active Directory (version 6.0.7050.0). This latest update includes:
Users of Operations Manager 2007 R2 can download this directly from the online MP service via the integrated MP download wizard. Alternatively the MP can be downloaded from here or via the Operations Manager MP Catalog.
David Williams, Analyst with Gartner, has published an in-depth examination of System Center Operations Manager 2007. In his report, Williams states that “Operations Manager 2007 has moved to rival many of the capabilities provided by more-established and more-expensive [tools].”
To read the full report (no Gartner account needed), visit the Gartner site at:
http://mediaproducts.gartner.com/reprints/microsoft/vol10/article2and3/article2and3.html
Great little tip on this particular issue related to SMTP relay restrictions.
Read the post: SMS&MOM : OpsMgr 2007: Email notification to external email address fails with error 31500
System Center Essentials 2007
946418 Error message when you install the System Center Operations Manager 2007 reporting feature: "SRS Server Validation Error"
949448 Error message in System Center Operations Manager 2007 or in System Center Essentials 2007: "The setup wizard was interrupted before System Center Operations Manager 2007 could be installed" or "The client has been disconnected from the server"
System Center Operations Manager 2007
949446 The mouse pointer disappears and the mouse rotation operation is unpredictable in System Center Operations Manager 2007
949447 You may have to restart the computer when you install the security update that Microsoft Knowledge Base article 933579 describes
948559 AEM does not work when the management server action account is a low-permission account in System Center Operations Manager 2007
949450 You cannot add required permissions to the share when you run the "fix permissions" task in System Center Operations Manager 2007
949453 The state calculation may be delayed when a new group or a distributed application is created in System Center Operations Manager 2007
946426 You are not prompted that a computer is shut down after the Maintenance Mode window expires in System Center Operations Manager 2007
949449 The Client Monitoring Configuration Wizard fails with an unknown error that occurs together with the 80FF002B code when you enable the client monitoring feature in System Center Operations Manager 2007
949455 System Center Operations Manager 2007 Reporting installation fails on a Windows Server 2008 computer if IIS 6.0 Management Compatibility is not installed
Sorry I haven’t been very active with blogging in the past couple of weeks but I’ve been busy getting ready for my System Center presentation the Microsoft Launch event being held tomorrow at the Tripod, Harcourt Street, in Dublin. There’s three 2-hour sessions beginning at 12PM and then repeating at 3PM and 6PM. So, if you’re an Irish reader, come on by and check out what’s coming from Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008. Plus, if you pop into my session, you’ll get a sneak peek at the latest member of the System Center product family – due to go to beta very soon!
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