Blog by PQR

Yesterday SCOM 2007 R2 became RTM. Maybe you already have read about the new features of R2...? Here is a list of the new or enhanced capabilities:

• Cross Platform Monitoring, adding support for the detailed monitoring of UNIX and Linux servers and workloads alongside the already-provided best-of-breed monitoring capabilities for Windows-based systems and workloads. With an integrated experience for system discovery, monitoring and management, organizations can truly use Operations Manager 2007 R2 to monitor their heterogeneous datacenter environments.
• Service level tracking, enabling customers to granularly define service level targets against monitored IT services, and then review detailed reports that show the achieved level of service against those targets; helping to quickly identify where components of an IT service may affect overall health and performance of that IT service.
• New monitoring templates, aiding in the rapid creation of new monitoring capabilities. New templates include those for monitoring processes, monitoring log files and daemons running on UNIX and Linux systems. Improvements were also made to the process for creating OLEDB and Windows Service monitors.
• Enhanced usability, with new features such as integrated import wizard for management packs, enhancements to the notification subscription wizard, the ability to view the health explorer from within the web console, and much more.
• Improved performance, of both the core product and consoles, such as dramatic scalability improvements that enhance the ability of the product to monitor multiple endpoints. For example, one management server can now monitor over 1000 URLs.

Now it's time to bring the product to the world :-)...! You can download a trial version:  http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=93ddf25b-1ef0-4851-81b0-5fb9a2f76181&displaylang=en

Good luck with it!

Cheers, Peter