Operations Manager R2 RC was released today (version 6.1.7000.x). I just finished building a new Lab Environment and have seen some very interesting things I wanted to share.
The first thing I wanted to share was the Overrides view in the Authoring Console.
This view allows admins and authors to see overrides, without having to run an overrides report, or drilling into an overrides summary.
The next interesting items, which were well publicized are the new templates that are available. As you can see there are built in Unix and Linux Templates as well as the new Process Monitoring Template.
The OLEDB Template has the ability to Run SQL Queries again monitored DBs, something a lot of our customers have been asking for (without custom scripting).
The Process monitoring Template has a lot of great options that were only available via scripts and custom monitors (pre-R2)
As promised the Administrator console has been extended to allow admins to discover and push agents to non-Windows Servers
There are quite a few Reports for Non-Windows servers as well
There is also a new option available from the Monitoring workspace. When you right click on an alert you can still do all the 'normal' tasks (close, Maintenance Mode etc), however now you have the ability to Create a notification based on the alert.
It appears that the "Disable" Rule or Monitor has not been improved. You still can't choose what MP to save it in, it lands in the Default MP.
Health Explorer has also come to the WebConsole... Very nice!
There is also an Overrides Overview VIEW
These are just a few of the improvements in R2. As I continue to dig in I will keep you updated.
Next I plan to look the URL monitoring, as it's been overhauled fairly significantly.
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