
June 05, 2009 -
As a Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 user, visibility into the state of the IT environment is of paramount importance. But if changing infrastructure and resource management are blurring your vision, F5 has just what you need. The F5 Management Pack for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 is a software plug-in that lets Microsoft and F5 customers allocate dynamic network, application, and server resources on the fly by monitoring and automating responses to user demand and resource availability.
The F5 Management Pack plug-in monitors the performance of network devices, application traffic, and other components of the network infrastructure and can automatically adapt to changing network conditions to keep performance up. It features F5's customizable iRules scripting language and PowerShell-enabled iControl API, which dynamically brings new servers online and offline, gives priority to critical traffic when sudden traffic bursts occur, filters out undesired traffic, provides software updates to individual servers without negatively affecting performance, and manages complete delivery of all applications from a single console. The F5 Management Pack is designed to work best with System Center Virtual Machine Manager, Hyper-V, and other Microsoft offerings.