Ian Blyth came across a MP for Xerox printers… Nice to see that the larger printer-companies are reacting to SCOM.

Xerox CentreWare for Microsoft SCOM is a device manager software application that provides the ability to identify, view, and centrally manage Xerox network printers and multifunction printers within Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007.

Download at: office.xerox.com

SMS 2003 with SP3 introduces support for Vista to your current SMS infrastructure bringing in Software Distribution, Updates and Inventory capabilities. In addition SP3 introduces x64 architecture support for today’s modern business computers, as well as full Asset Intelligence integration for over 400,000 software titles.

More info & download at: microsoft.com

A small SQL-script to list all agents on a MOM2005 installation.

USE OnePoint

SELECT Computer.Name AS ComputerName, ComputerAttribute.[Value] AS IP
FROM ComputerAttribute
        INNER JOIN Computer ON ComputerAttribute.idComputer = Computer.idComputer
WHERE ComputerAttribute.idComputerAttributeDefinition = (
        SELECT ClassAttributeID as idComputerAttributeDefinition
        FROM ClassAttribute
        WHERE ClassAttributeName = 'IPAddress')
ORDER BY Computer.Name

The first servicepack for Softgrid is out… Softricity used versionnumbers and Microsoft uses Servicepacks.

New Capabilities
Microsoft SoftGrid 4.1 SP1 improves support for sequencing SxS applications that have public assemblies, such as the 2007 Microsoft Office release.

More info & download at: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/938497/

Bernardo Sanchez has a few links from he’s blog to the new XianIO SMP Brochures…

Original post http://xianio.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!B233E6BEC762421!316.entry

• SMP_for_APC_UPS.pdf
• SMP_for_Cisco_PIX-ASA_Firewalls.pdf
• SMP_for_Cisco_Routers.pdf
• SMP_for_Cisco_Switches.pdf
• SMP_for_Cisco_VPN_Concentrators.pdf
• SMP_for_Cisco_Wireless.pdf
• SMP_for_F5_Big_IP.pdf
• SMP_for_Generic_Network_Devices.pdf
• SMP_for_HP_Procurve_Switches.pdf
• SMP_for_Linux_Servers.pdf
• SMP_for_Solaris_Servers.pdf
• SMP_for_VMWare_Virtual_Center.pdf
• SMP_for_VMWare_ESX_Servers.pdf
• SMP_for_MySQL.pdf

FIY: We (a few ppl from the company I work for) just started out a 5-session certification education of XianIO so it might come some more info on XianIO here…

So since HP released their MP for OM2007 Dell had to do the same… and now it’s here.

I haven’t got the chance to try it out (yet)…

Fixes and Enhancements

1) Added support for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007
2) Enhanced health drill down model in Diagram views from overall Dell Hardware health to individual hardware components.
3) Includes support for the latest versions of Dell OpenManage Server Administrator v5.2 (including the enhanced Storage Management Service 2.2).
4) Supports monitoring of Dell printers using SNMPv2

Download from: support.us.dell.com