Solution

Application and Network Topologies

Live Maps allows you to create true end-to-end diagrams of your applications and network. These diagrams are 'live', properties and states are constantly updated as your environment changes.

Now you can combine all the essential, non-discoverable, information previously stored in Visio diagrams and Excel sheets with the live monitoring information collected by Operations Manager 2007.  A truly powerful combination!

In Live Maps you can do all your drawing and diagramming from within the Live Maps Authoring console with real Operations Manager objects. Simple drag and drop operations combined with our new advanced drawing controls make it simple and fast.

Modeling and monitoring your Business Processes

Nowadays almost every business process depends on Information Technology (IT). And it is not IT but business processes that make you money. So it is critical to instantly understand the impact of an IT failure on your business. Live Maps allows you to do just that!

Using the new business process shapes in Live Maps you can easily model your business process and map them to the IT infrastructure that supports them. Giving everybody, IT manager, user and the business process owner, instant insight into the health of a business process.

Besides the instant insight you get into the current state of your business processes the advanced Live Maps Availability Report also gives you access to the historical availability of your business processes.

Monitoring your Sites and Offices

In today's global economy almost every midsized to large company has branch offices and sites that are geographically dispersed, sometimes regionally, sometimes globally. Anybody responsible for such a complex environment needs constant insight into the health of all these offices and sites. With Live Maps v3 that's exactly what you get.

By combining any of the over 300+ built-in maps with the new rule based dynamic list Live Maps lets you to create live maps that automatically keep up to date while your IT environment evolves.

The built-in ability of Live Maps to create unlimited levels of maps ensures you will never lose overview.

Monitoring your datacenter

Every IT manager that is responsible for a large datacenter knows the challenge of staying in the know about the health of all the racks and servers in the datacenter. It is just an overwhelming task. Live Maps can make your life a whole of a lot easier.

Live Maps allows you to use your existing datacenter and rack diagrams and combine them with the wealth of information collected by Operations Manager 2007, resulting in an easy to understand, always up to date, graphical representation of the health of your datacenter and racks.

Dashboards

Sometimes you need to know all the nitty-gritty details about your environment. Most of the time you just want to know everything is alright! That's where the new dashboard feature comes in.

Live Maps dashboards are easy to understand top level views of the state of your environment. And you can take any perspective, locations, business process, IT services, whatever fits your needs. Using the built-in drilldown feature you can still get to the root cause of the problem within a few simple clicks.