R2 – Xplat

With OpsMgr R2 a whole new field has come into play: non-Microsoft Operating Systems and non-Microsoft enterprise applications, also known as Xplat.

But what if you have worked all your IT career with Microsoft products ‘only’? And don’t know much about ‘The Others’? Can get a bit scary huh? Gladly enough there is something like the internet so there are multiple good resources to be found how to go about it.

Here are some good resources:

1. Webcast, monitoring Xplat with OpsMgr R2:
   http://www.microsoft.com/events/series/detail/webcastdetails.aspx?seriesid=37&webcastid=5558
   
   
2. Some datasheets from Microsoft. Some of it is marketing blabla, but also with some ‘nice-to-know’ information:
   Linux Systems with Operations Manager 2007 Cross Platform Extensions
   and
   Datasheet- System Center Operations Manager 2007 Cross Platform Extensions
   
   
3. Microsoft’s Xplat MP authoring guide:
   http://technet.microsoft.com/nl-nl/library/dd919155(en-us).aspx
   
   
4. Daniele Muscetta’s blog, many posts about Xplat:
   http://www.muscetta.com/
   
   
5. David Allen, OpsMgr MVP, has some good field notes:
   http://wmug.co.uk/blogs/aquilaweb/archive/2009/07/21/opsmgr-r2-xplat-agent-deployment-field-notes.aspx
   and
   http://wmug.co.uk/blogs/aquilaweb/archive/2009/09/02/more-opsmgr-x-plat-notes.aspx
   
   
6. Anders Bengtsson, OpsMgr MVP, also blogged about it:
   http://contoso.se/blog/?p=712
   
   
7. The Xplat blog of Bridgeways MPs:
   http://blog.xplatxperts.com/

Whenever new links are to be found I’ll update this posting with them.