Category Archives: System Center (without SCSM)

SCSM Extensions V2.0 OIP (Opalis Integration Pack)

Posted on 01/05/2011 by Marcel Zehner

Some weeks ago I released the first Version of the SCSM Extensions OIP. This OIP allows Administrators to create workflows in Opalis to automate things. It contains some activities that are not contained in the SCSM OIP from Microsoft. During my work with Service … Continue reading →

Posted in SCSM, System Center (without SCSM) | Tagged automate, automation, opalis, runbook, scsm, scsm extensions, workflow | 13 Comments

Opalis Integration Pack Extension for Service Manager

Posted on 02/04/2011 by Marcel Zehner

I started a new Opalis Integration Pack project that allows administrators to easily communicate with Service Manager. The Integration Pack that Microsoft delivers is great, but some often used activities (I use) are not present and you have to use … Continue reading →

Posted in SCSM, System Center (without SCSM) | Tagged auto-close, autoclose, automate, automation, export, management packs, mp, opalis | 10 Comments

Microsoft System Center vNext

Posted on 19/02/2011 by Marcel Zehner

These days I am at the Microsoft Campus in Redmond to learn about the next Versions of System Center Products. Very interesting, but unfortunately most stuff under NDA. I will be back with SCSM blogging in a bit 🙂 Regards … Continue reading →

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Bringing discovered SCOM objects to Service Manager – Part 2/2

Posted on 13/02/2011 by Marcel Zehner

In the first part of this series I showed how to synchronize objects that live in SCOM to the Service Manager CMDB. This works fine, but in some situations it’s possible that objects will not be visible – because they … Continue reading →

Posted in SCSM, System Center (without SCSM) | Tagged class, classes, connector, import, management packs, mp, scom | 5 Comments

Bringing discovered SCOM objects to Service Manager – Part 1/2

Posted on 10/02/2011 by Marcel Zehner

Service Manager allows to build a comprehensive CMDB by using connectors. One very important connector is the SCOM CI connector (System Center Operations Manager) that allows objects that are discovered and monitored by SCOM to be synchronized with the Service … Continue reading →

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Creating special Activities – Part 2/2

Posted on 09/02/2011 by Marcel Zehner

Using Activities in Service Manager allows you to collect Information about tasks and build them together in Change Requests. In the first Part I talked about custom activity classes and how to use them in Templates. In the second Part I … Continue reading →

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