Enable your vision in Visio Add-In for SCOM

I’ve been doing some projects recently on Operations Manager 2007 R2 and 2012. One of the main ideas was to finalize it with a heavy ending. What helped me is a simple-but-powerful solution – Visio 2010 Add-In for Operations Manager 2007 R2.

This solution has the ability to create any Visio diagram and link any item on that diagram to object of a class to show it’s health. I don’t use SharePoint integration, but probably someday I would, rather that I use only full screen view (F5 key) in Visio to maximize my map. As I’m not a great graphic, my diagrams are rather straightforward.

Now let’s get into the main point. As a title of my blog says, there are some problems. 

1. For the requirements there are 3 of them, where one in a requirement for second one. So you need .NET Framework 3.5.1 (which is actually enabled in Windows 7 as a feature), OpsMgr 2007 R2 Console or Authoring Console and a Visio 2010 Premium or Professional. When you install everything and try to install Visio Add-In, you might get a pop-up. that there’s no Visio installed… Well… how come if I installed it just before? The point is – you have to run Visio for the first time and close it – Visio Add-In now can be installed.

2. After installation you and after linking or adding an object, you don’t see the health indicators (icons, color etc.). This is reflected to be a bug in add-in probably because of differences in language versions of OS and Visio. If so – go to C:\Program Files (x86)\Visio 2010 Add-in for System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 and run masters.vhd – that enables colorful icons and fillings.

 

Thanks for Cleber Marques for helping me with this (though I found it myself ).

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