This is the Cross-Platform (X-Plat0 page in the SCOM 2007 area of the System Center WIKI. 

• Description 
• Supported Platforms 
• Partners 
• Related Articles and Documentation 

Description 

The System Center Operations Manager 2007 Cross Platform Extensions arepart of the Operations Manager 2007 R2 release, which is available for download as of July 1st, 2009. This solution extends the monitoring and management capabilities of System Center Operations Manager 2007 to non-Microsoft platforms.

Cross-Platform functionality is only available in the R2 release of OpsMgr 2007.

Supported Platforms

Here are the non-Windows operating systems currently supported in OpsMgr R2 RTM:

• HP-UX 11i v2 and v3 (PA-RISC and IA64)

• Sun Solaris 8 and 9 (SPARC) and Solaris 10 (SPARC and x86)

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (x86) and 5 (x86/x64) Server

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (x64) Server

• Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 (x86) and 10 SP1 (x86/x64)

• Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 (x64)

• IBM AIX 5L V5.3 and V6.1 (PowerPC)

Partners 

There are several partners with offerings in the cross-platform space, including:

• Quest - Partner specializing in agentless solutions, delivering more than 225 management packs for SCOM 2007, including additional non-Windows operating systems available nowhere else including AS400, z /OS. For more info, see http://www.quest.com/system-center/monitoring-diagnostics.aspx

• Bridgeways (Xandros) - Partner delivering MPs for a number of *NIX applications, such as Apache, Oracle, Tomcat, MySQL, IBM Webspher and many others. For more info, visit http://www.bridgeways.ca/products.php
  

Related Articles and Documentation 

Community Articles 

• X-Plat: The OpsMgr Gateway to Linux in the Datacenter
• Xandros Bridgeways Management Packs for Opsmgr 2007 R2
• QMX adds more features to CentOS and SuSe SCOM integration
• SCOM 2007 R2: How to test Cross-Platform Monitoring without purchasing a RHEL license
• Testing System Center Cross-Platform Extentions
• CentOS 5 Management Pack for OpsMgr Xplat
• CentOS Discovery in OpsMgr R2 Beta
• Cross-Platform Extentions in OpsMgr R2 Release Candidate
• Installing the OpsMgr 2007 R2 Agent on Ubuntu
• Using the SCX Agent with WSMan from Powershell v2

 MS Documentation 

• White Paper: Managing Your Unix/Linux Systems with Operations Manager 2007 Cross Platform Extensions
• Datasheet: System Center Operations Manager 2007 Cross Platform Extensions
• Cross-Platform MP Authoring Guide