Hi, Is it possible to create a business availability report, that is public available? We are going to monitor our services and applications via SCOM. I know that you can create nice dashboards in scom with green en red lights. These dashboards are only accessible for the operations and not public available. But, we want to inform our customers about the status of our applications. And they can only access our public website So, is it possible to publish the dashboards to a public website? Is there a way that we can create a custom public website with data from scom? Any other option? Thanks in advance for your answer. Dieter

Hey Dieter You can use the SharePoint SLD. http://thoughtsonopsmgr.blogspot.com/2009/05/scom-r2-service-level-dashboard-mp.html http://www.ditii.com/2009/12/01/service-level-dashboard-sld-2-0-for-scom-2007-r2/ You may need to use something like ISA to publish this to the web. You could also consider scheduling a report on availability and having SSRS email the report to the users. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms345234.aspxPaul Keely

Hi Paul, Hhhmm, SLD requires Sharepoint. At this moment we don't have a public Sharepoint site and I think we don't have plans to make Sharepoint available for our customers. Is it not possible to query the SCOM database? Greetings, Dieter

There are some SCOM queries here which will help in building something: http://blogs.technet.com/b/kevinholman/archive/2007/10/18/useful-operations-manager-2007-sql-queries.aspx View OpsMgr tips and tricks at http://systemcentersolutions.wordpress.com/

Hi Nicholas, Thanks for your tip. It seems that querying the SCOM db is not so difficult. (And this moment I'm a SCOM newcomer) Dieter

Hey Dieter You only need WSS 3.0 and that is free for the SLD You could install this on a an interent facing machine and let it connect back to SCOM, again best to use ISA for this http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=79bada82-c13f-44c1-bdc1-d0447337051b&displaylang=en http://www.isaserver.org/tutorials/A_Web_Site_Using_ISA_Server_Part_1_Preparing_To_Publish_Your_Site.html Paul Keely