I am very excited about the System Center Operations Manager 2012 management pack development effort I'm about to begin for Hitachi hardware leveraging WS-Management.  I plan to post discovery, monitor, and rule examples of how anyone can leverage WS-Management when working with Out of Band devices.

I will provide discovery samples that leverage the native Microsoft.SystemCenter.WSManagement.TimedEnumerateDiscoveryData module seen here http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj130215.aspx.  In addition to the discoveries I will also provide an example of the http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj130253 which can be used for rules/monitors.

Network Devices Supported for Discovery By Operations Manager 2012

For those of you who are wondering what network devices are supported and to what extent out of the box by SCOM 2012 Microsoft has published a spreadsheet.

Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2012 provides the ability to discover and monitor network routers and switches, including the network interfaces and ports on those devices and the virtual LAN (VLAN) that they participate in. Operations Manager can tell you whether network devices are online or offline, and can monitor the ports and interfaces for those devices.

Operations Manager 2012 can monitor network devices that support SNMP, and can provide port monitoring for devices that implement interface MIB (RFC 2863) and MIB-II (RFC 1213) standards.

You can find the list here: http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=26831

System Center Operations Manager Feedback and Suggestions

I have several pieces of what I would consider valuable feedback submitted to the Operations Manager team on the Microsoft Connect site.  I ask that everyone involved with or working with the product take a minute to review these items and provide some input on them if you agree.

The product will evolve naturally over time, but as a community we can assist in increasing the speed of that evolution.

Correlation Engine - https://connect.microsoft.com/OpsMgr/feedback/details/695055/correlation-engine-needed

Database Grooming Options Exposed Through GUI - https://connect.microsoft.com/OpsMgr/feedback/details/694746/offer-all-opsmgr-database-and-datawarehouse-grooming-options-in-gui

Update Performance View for Ease of Use - https://connect.microsoft.com/OpsMgr/feedback/details/689566/performance-view-filter-options-like-excel

Deploy Multiple Cross Platform Agents at a Time, Just like Windows Based Agent Deployments - https://connect.microsoft.com/OpsMgr/feedback/details/689555/cross-platform-discovery-wizard-deploy-multiple-agents

Last but not least, let's provide the ability to override the health of an object along with the alert severity - https://connect.microsoft.com/OpsMgr/feedback/details/688192/please-provide-ability-to-override-health-of-object-like-alert