SCOM PreCon

I want to know as an EA how System Center Operations Manger 2007 will enable the development group and the operations group work more closely together. What I heard was that I can describe system definition models (SDM) and setup monitoring and dependency information inside of a Management Pack. The things that SCOM had looked far different than the DSI story I had seen before from the VSTS Team. Maybe I can import a SDM from SCOM and use it in VSTS.

So here is my big beef. When it came time to describe the management pack the audience tuned out. They wanted to know how to use the management packs. What I need is for an operations group to tell me if I’m monitoring the right things in my management pack. I think Tom x from Microsoft IT explained that the product group sends the management pack to him, he tunes it and sends it back to the product team. We need this same kind of process in an enterprise LOB application to compete with the management features that Microsoft provides out of the box on their larger applications. More importantly, when I have a LOB application that uses Dynamics CRM, SQL Server, BizTalk, MOSS, AD, and who knows what other Microsoft application we can pull together a management solution for our group of four administrators to really understand this increasingly complex and foreign thing called “Something from development”.

So much for all this pondering, I’m off to party with Palmero http://partywith.palermo.cc