Microsoft.unix.computer
Posted by wim-ms on April 30, 2008
Wow, very exciting news for opsmgr 2007 with the beta release of Cross Platform Extensions for opsmgr 2007 which allows you to monitor unix/linux systems the same way as windows systems. I’m especially impressed by their usage of open standards and open source to implement the agent and interoperability on the unix/linux side. They are using stuff like putty, openpegasus, openwsman (haven’t used that myself but looks cool).
A video of these extensions and a distributed application using mysql/apache/php in action can be found on Edge.technet.com
I think that management types will love the uniform reports of all their server regardless of the OS 
A whitepaper is available on the new blog about Cross Platform Extensions
