Managing Open Source in Operation Manager x64 Environment

In enterprise data center environment, some of the customer might interested on managing Open Source servers using Operation Manager.

Microsoft Connect introduced a Cross Platform Extensions for Operation Manager, which provide open source dll runtime to Operation Manager for querying the open source systems and as well as various open source system's Management Pack.

Previously this Cross Platform Extensions can only be able to run on 32-bit Operation Manager, but Microsoft Connect one again introduced a new Cross Platform Extensions Beta Update Yesterday!! Now, Operation Manager that run on 64-bit platform will also be able to manage open source system with this new update!

Currently, the Cross Platform Extensions only be able to manage the following open source platform:

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
• Suse 10.1
• HP UX 11.31
• Solaris 10
• AIX 5.3 (New in Beta Update)

If you guys are interested on managing open source using Operation Manager 2007, register yourself and downlaod the installer from Microsoft Connect site!

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