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April 09

Free SNMP Simulator from Jalasoft now available at download.com

If you want a very light-weight and simple tool to simulate SNMP messages for a wide array of devices you can download it from here:
 
April 03

Xian Io buzz around the blogosphere

This post is just to keep you updated on some of the most recent buzz around the web about the latest release of Xian Network Manager Io.
 
You can find an article on how to create topology diagramas using Xian and Savision live maps at the system center forum website.
 
 
February 25

Xian Network Manager Io SP2 for OpsMgr 2007 is now available

Santa Clara, February 23rd , 2009—Today, Jalasoft has released it’s long awaited Xian Io SP2 monitoring solution for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007.

The many improvements in Service Pack 2 are mainly focused on the performance of Xian Io. As a result of these improvements, SP2 is able to monitor 4 times as many devices as in SP1. Besides that, many small enhancements make Xian more user friendly than ever before.

“Xian Io SP2 provides you with the capacity to monitor large network environments with thousands of devices without you having to worry about performance issues” said Davor Pavisic, CTO at Jalasoft.

You can download a trial version at the following link:

http://www.jalasoft.com/Web/LoginPage.aspx?ReturnUrl=%2fWeb%2fProduct%2fProductPanel.aspx%3fid%3d105

 

January 15

Some answers to this question: What tasks do you automate the most in OpsMgr 2007 and what tools do you use to do it?

I was asking the above question around the web and  working on a list of the most commonly automated tasks for OpsMgr 2007 and what people use to do it (scripts, tools, etc).  Up to now ITs have provided the following tasks:

  1. Schedule maintenance mode (powershell or maintenance mode scheduler).
  2. Schedule alert escalation (change alert status if alert is in "new" status for some time - powershell).
  3. Perform validation checks for alerts from Exchange, Biztalk and others to verify these alerts and quickly perform tests, if these are passed successfully then the alerts are set to auto resolve and no human support is required.
  4. Perform file deletion with OpsMgr on a scheduled way.
  5. Use scripts to auto populate Active Directory with machine names for AD integration. The scripts for these already exist in the Resource Kit, but a separate script can be created with calculate which management server to allocate an agent based on location and load.
  6. Update alerts with custom server information, prior to forwarding to the “manager of managers”.
  7. Automated alert-dependent tasks, to provide additional info to the NOC.

I want to thank Nick Madge (www.nickthegeek.co.uk) and other IT Pros for their contributions in the survey which helped me build this list.

November 14

Free SNMP simulator provided by Jalasoft

 
This is a very useful and simple tool I have used many times. It enables you to simulate a SNMP device using an xml which contains a SNMP walk of the device you wish to simluate.
 
It comes with the SNMP walks for the following devices and so enables you to simulate their presence in your network:
 
  • Cisco Switches
  • Cisco Router
  • Cisco Firewalls
  • Cisco VPN Concentrators
  • Cisco Wireless devices
  • 3Com Switches
  • HP Procurve Switches
  • F5 BigIp
  • Nortel
  • APC UPS
  • You can dowload the tool from here:

    http://www.jalasoft.com/Web/Product/Product.aspx?id=49

     

    October 27

    Jalasoft and Savision team up at Microsoft Tech·Ed IT

    Jalasoft and Savision announced today that they are teaming up to provide demonstrations of their
    products at TechED IT Professionals 2008 this November in Barcelona. Jalasoft’s Xian Network Manager Io and Savision’s Live Maps are both
    products designed to work with Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007. Live Map’s elaborate mapping features give Xian users the power to create network aware topologies, business process and geographical maps of your network. Additionally, Xian Network Manager adds network devices down to interface level allowing you a detailed view of your topology so you can pinpoint exactly where the problem is located.
     
    Below a small sample topology of how this combination looks:
     
    topology
     
    June 13

    This Month's SWAG! at myITForum

    June 2008 -- Jalasoft is raffling four copies of 'Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 Unleashed' by Kerrie Meyler, Cameron Fuller, John Joyner and Andy Dominey.

     System Center Operations Manager 2007 Unleashed

    To participate in the raffle visit:

    http://www.myitforum.com/contest/swag/June2008.asp

     

     

    April 28

    MMS 2008 starts today

     
    The Microsoft Management Summit 2008 starts today in Las Vegas. Let's see what type of announcements we get this year. I will blog about the most interesting anouncements and releases this week.
     
    The website for the event is at: www.mms-2008.com
     
    April 03

    Management Pack for Nokia Firewalls released by Jalasoft

    Yesterday Jalasoft released an SMP for Nokia Firewalls, this is the announcement:
     
     

    pixSMP for Nokia Firewalls now available

     

    We are glad to announce that Jalasoft has released the new SMP for Nokia Firewalls. It is now really simple to add your Nokia Firewall into the Operations Manager 2007 environment.

     

    The SMP comes with a large number of rules that can be applied easily. Also policy templates, scan tasks and device updates help the user monitor their Nokia Firewall with little effort. In addition, all the power of Operations Manager 2007 is available for Distributed Applications, Reporting and more.

     

    The SMP for Nokia Firewalls can be downloaded for free along with the evaluation version of Xian Network Manager Io at:

     

    http://www.jalasoft.com/Web/Product/Product.aspx?id=48

     
     
    April 01

    Xian Network Monitoring and Integration the full series

     
    The Xian Network Monitoring and Integration series is now complete and you can find all the documents avaiable a System Center Forum. I mentioned the first five parts in a previous post and the last three parts of the series are available here:
     
     
    If you want to download the full 8 parts of the series you can find a single pdf download here:
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
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