Free Live Maps 3 for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007

Live Maps 3 is now available as a free download for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007, courtesy of Savision. With v3 of Live Maps, customers running Operations Manager 2007 will be able to create large-scale maps designed to allow complex monitoring functionality from business processes, to business applications, to IT issues and services, network topologies, data center in relation to geographical views.

“Associating IT failures to our applications and IT services is a difficult proposition without understanding the relationships between components that connect a specified service,” explained Brian Muffley, Global Framework Engineering Manager (ICT), Lend Lease Corporation. This is precisely the kind of limitation Live Maps for Operations Manager 2007 is designed to bypass. Monitoring maps are set up to permit the visualization of IT problems, and ultimately streamline the processes set up to resolve them.

“Being able to visualize these relationships and their associated alerts is a vital element that our organization has strived to achieve for years,“ Muffley added. According to Savision, the free Live Maps for Operations Manager 2007 brings to the table full functionality for customers. The solution allows users to build and manage no less than three maps. In addition, Live Maps for Operations Manager 2007 delivers a simple model to put together maps that will subsequently be updated dynamically by offering new wizards and templates.

At the same time, Live Maps for Operations Manager 2007 makes sure that IT professionals at all levels in a company are capable of easily accessing data in order to resolve issues, which is kept up to date and centralized via the network link-awareness features. “Live Maps (...) provides a dynamic environment that simplifies impact analysis and availability monitoring. We have found that Live Maps is helping us to communicate the health of our services, not only to applications and support teams but also to senior management by utilizing their dashboards and drill through technology,” Muffley concluded.