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From the MOMTeam

If you’re looking for a reason to roll out Visio 2010, have I got a doozie for you!

Using the new Visio 2010 add-in for OpsMgr 2007 R2 and the SharePoint 2010 Visio Services Data Provider, you’ll be able to create a visio-based view of a web application, a service, or even an infrastructure (Or even import one with the OpsMgr add-in for Visio 2007) then publish it to SharePoint 2010 as a web drawing.

Once you’ve done that, you’ll get a ‘live’ view of what your environment looks like – in the way you want to see it. Perfect for a big board application in a NOC!

And there’s some even neater things coming down the pipe. Check out this MMS 2010 keynote to see this and more in action!

And go pick up the downloads from Visio Toolbox while you’re at it!

Hopefully I’ll have a nice little tutorial about how to set all of this up, as I need to rebuild my OpsMgr environment several times over the next 30 days to ensure I’m ready to go for my next assignment! Can never have too much practice, right?

Now this seems really promising! I’ve been involved with Silect Software since their inception years ago. They make some great tools – MP Studio in particular. But its costs has always made it a hard sell with clients, since there’s “already a way to author management packs in SCOM”.

But what there isn’t in OpsMgr is a quick, easy, and simple way to find out just what’s running on that server – until now.

Silect is announcing the Agent Explorer feature of the next version of MP Studio.
With Agent Explorer you’ll be able see exactly what rules, monitors, discoveries and management packs are running on a given server.

Interested? View the 5 min screencap and then email Randy R and tell him you want to try this out!