April 2008 - Posts
SP1 Improves Support for Remote SQL Servers
Essentials 2007 SP1 supports using a remote SQL Server 2005 instance on a computer with a different architecture (x86 or x64) than the computer running the Essentials 2007 management server Optimized for the Intel Itanium processor, SQL Server (64-bit) takes advantage of advanced memory addressing capabilities for essential resources such as buffer pools, caches, and sort heaps, reducing the need to...
Deploying Office 2007 with System Center Essentials 2007
Microsoft System Center Essentials 2007 is a solution designed for IT administrators in midsized organizations that include up to 30 servers and 500 client computers. Administrators can use the System Center Essentials 2007 to secure, update, monitor, and track their IT environment. With System Center Essentials, you can perform the following tasks: Use the inventory feature to collect and examine...
Intel Active Management Technology Management Pack for Essentials 2007
The Intel® Active Management Technology Management Pack for Essentials provides support for Intel AMT Technology version 2.0 and later. The Intel AMT MP gives Essentials 2007 the capability to discover and remotely manage Intel AMT supported systems. This MP extends the Essentials menus to include Intel AMT functionality. TDuring the discovery process, the MP retrieves asset information from the AMT...
Create a Simple Event Detection Monitor in Essentials 2007
How to Create a Simple Log File Event Detection Monitor in Essentials 2007 A simple log file event monitor queries a log file for specific text and sets the health state based on the match. You can specify two pattern matches in the log file: one to set the health state to either warning or error, and the other to set the health state to success. To create the monitor: Log on to the computer with an...
Now you can Monitor SNMPv1 devices with Essentials 2007 SP1
A real improvement of Essentials 2007 SP1 is to the Computer and Device Management Wizard with the ability to now support discovering SNMPv1 devices. The discovery process configures the Essentials 2007 Server as a proxy agent for any SNMP-enabled network devices you discover, and subsequently do the device polling via SNMP GETs. If you have upgraded your existing installation of Essentials 2007, you...
HP ProLiant Management Pack for Essentials 2007
HP Proliant Management Pack v1.1 The HP Server Management Packs for Operations Manager 2007 and Essentials 2007 support the following features: User Defined Custom Data Icons for Console Diagram View Streamlined Base Hardware event rules in the HP Integrity Management Pack Streamlined procedure for HP Server Management Packs for installation Improved management of events by eliminating multiple alerts...
May's Technet Magazine Features Essentials 2007
May's TechNet Magazine features a folded poster insert on System Center Essentials SP1. The poster provides a architecture diagram on how Essentials works on each of the key feature areas: Monitoring, Inventory, Software Distribution & Updates. It also includes a section on what is new with Service Pack 1. It's definitively cool poster I'll be hanging in my office!
