2.5 December 2012 Patch Release

The December 2012 Patch Release for Operations Center v5.0 contains the following functionality and enhancements described in the following topics:

2.5.1 New Management System Integrations

Operations Center officially integrates to the following management systems:

  • SCOM 2012

For more information, see the Operations Center 5.0 Server Installation Guide and Operations Center 5.0 Adapter and Integration Guide.

2.5.2 Layout View Enhancements

Calendars are now supported in custom Layout charts and gauges for availability metrics.

For information about metric charts and gauges, see Integrating Performance Metric Charts and Gauges into a Drawing in the Operations Center 5.0 Custom Drawing and Layout Guide.

2.5.3 Dashboard Enhancements

The Dashboard now provides the following features:

  • The new Information Portlet provides a customized summary view of an element’s status and information. Based on its settings, the portlet allows navigation down to any children or up to the parent’s view and displays the current condition and status. Element information is available via tabular views including element properties, alarms, layout, root cause, impacted elements. All options are configurable to create a custom display.

    For more information, see Configuring the Information Portlet in the Operations Center 5.0 Dashboard Guide.

  • Data export to PDF for Alarms portlet and SLA Compliance portlet.

  • Data export to Excel and PDF for Element Properties portlet and SLA Status portlet.

For more information, see the Operations Center 5.0 Dashboard Guide.