posted on Thursday, May 13, 2010 1:53 PM
To celebrate today’s global launch of Microsoft Office and SharePoint 2010, F5 Networks has popped the cork off a bottle of L7 Champagne with our new version of the Management Pack, version 2.1… which includes Distributed Application Designer support for SharePoint 2010.
With this latest Distributed Application Designer, your data center administrator can quickly and easily deploy Microsoft SharePoint 2010 into their data center. As with all of our Distributed Application Designers, the SP 2010 Designer integrates System Center application and network monitoring, health and alerting, along with automatic discovery and automatic-configuration of existing F5 Networks BIG-IP infrastructure.
We’re particularly excited about the new release of the Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Management Pack for System Center Operations Manager, as it includes a much richer set of health and performance objects, which we can link directly against the F5 Networks Local Traffic Manager for real-time capacity and health-based load balancing.
David Ruddell, an engineer on the F5 MPk development team, has posted a blog with more info and a video tutorial on the SharePoint 2010 integration.
This latest release of the Management Pack also includes over a 100 new network performance statistics and thresholds, covering http, ssl, and device level statistics.
As always, our releases include rolled-up maintenance fixes, in-place upgrade, support via the F5 DevCentral Management Pack Forums.
Look for more blog posts and videos describing and detailing the features in the latest release.
Thank you,
Stephen Fisher
Product Development Manager, F5 Networks Management Pack and Data Center Orchestration