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Appendix A: MOM Management Packs and Utilities

A number of MOM management packs and utilities can be leveraged to connect MOM to other products, including Microsoft products and other third-party software and systems. The table that follows lists some of the key management packs and utilities available for MOM 2005. You can find additional management packs and utilities on Microsoft's web site (http://www.microsoft.com/management/mma/catalog.aspx).

Management Pack/Utility

Description

Vendor

Windows Base OS (Server) 2000, 2003

Monitors Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003 events in the system and application event logs. These events indicate exceptional conditions associated with various aspects of Windows operations. Assists with proactive management of Windows systems.

Microsoft

Operations Manager (MOM) 2005

Allows you to proactively manage your MOM 2000 SP1 and MOM 2005 environments.

Microsoft

SQL Server 2000, 2005

Detects and sends alerts about critical events. Helps indicate, correct, and prevent possible service outages or configuration problems.

Microsoft

Availability Reporting Management Pack

Collects and analyzes data from the event logs of your servers running Windows Server 2003, and generates reports that you can study to improve server availability and reliability. You can identify the causes for planned and unplanned downtime and take preemptive actions to decrease downtime in the future.

Microsoft

Exchange Server 2000, 2003

Monitors Exchange Server 2000 and Exchange Server 2003 and includes rules and scripts to track performance, availability, and reliability of Exchange components, such as Internet-related services, Extensible Storage Engine, System Attendant, Microsoft Exchange Information Store service, and SMTP. This version now includes all of the monitoring routines formerly found in the Intelligent Message Filtering management pack. Works with the Exchange Server Management Pack Configuration Wizard.

Microsoft

Windows DNS Server Service 2000, 2003

Collects DNS events from the System Event Log for Windows NT and events from the DNS Server Event Log for Windows 2000 and Windows 2003.

Microsoft

Internet Information Services (IIS) 2000, 2003

Monitors IIS events in the Windows NT event logs. For IIS 5.0 and 6.0, includes a script that polls and tracks the responsiveness of your IIS server.

Microsoft

Windows Server Clusters (MSCS) 2000, 2003

Highlights events that may indicate possible service outages or configuration problems, so you can quickly take action. The highlighted events provide information about many parts of a server cluster.

Microsoft

System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) 2006

Monitors health, state of data protection, and recovery for multiple DPM servers and the file servers that they protect.

Microsoft

Office Live Communications Server (LCS) 2005 with SP1

Monitors the health of computers running Live Communications Server 2005 with SP1 on Windows Server 2003 and alerts IT administrators about critical health conditions that indicate degraded performance.

Microsoft

Operations Manager Management Pack Notifier (MOM) 2005

Enables the generation of informational alerts as updated management packs are released.

Microsoft

Exchange Server Best Practices Analyzer 5.5, 2000, 2003

This management pack can be used to help determine if Microsoft Exchange 5.5, 2000, or 2003 Servers are in a best practice configuration. Using a timed event, the tool runs automatically on each server and creates appropriate alerts as best practice configuration issues are detected.

Microsoft

Windows Active Directory 2000, 2003

Provides forest-wide monitoring of your Active Directory service and its required subsystems.

Microsoft

Windows Base OS (Desktop) NT4.0, 2000, 2003

Monitors the performance and availability of Windows XP desktop operating system and later. Helps indicate, correct, and prevent possible operating system service outages.

Microsoft

Application Center (AC) 2000

Collects events generated by Application Center servers running on Windows 2000 and Windows 2003. Ensures that this critical server application is working correctly, and helps prevent costly service outages.

Microsoft

Systems Management Server (SMS) 2003

Monitors the starting and stopping of all SMS 2003 services, including critical dependent services such as Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI), Internet Information Server (IIS), and SQL Server.

Microsoft

Virtual Server 2005

Monitors the performance and availability of Virtual Server and virtual machines. This management pack is also available in Japanese.

Microsoft

Windows DFS Service 2000, 2003

Monitors the performance and health of the Distributed File System (DFS) service running on Windows 2000 and later operating systems. Monitors the availability of DFS shares to clients through client-side monitoring.

Microsoft

Windows DHCP Server Service 2000, 2003

Collects events generated by the Microsoft Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol Service (DHCP) in Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003. Ensures this critical part of your Windows infrastructure is working correctly and helps prevent costly service outages.

Microsoft

Windows File Replication Service (FRS) 2000, 2003

Monitors the performance and availability of Windows File Replication Service, ultrasound, and replica sets.

Microsoft

Windows Print Server 2000, 2003

Monitors the performance and health of print servers running on Windows 2000 and later operating systems. Also provides insight into the status of shared printers.

Microsoft

Windows Terminal Services 2000, 2003

Monitors the performance and health of the Terminal Services components running on Windows 2000 and later operating systems.

Microsoft

Web Sites and Web Services

Monitors availability and performance of web sites and Web Services by performing HTTP requests against the monitored entities.

Microsoft

Windows Routing and Remote Access Service (RRAS) 2003

Monitors the Routing and Remote Access service (RRAS) running on Windows 2003 servers.

Microsoft

Office Project Server 2003

Monitors events placed by Project Server and its component services in the Microsoft Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003 event logs. Allows you to proactively manage Project Server and react to costly service outages.

Microsoft

Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) 2003

Monitors events placed in the Microsoft Windows Server 2003 application event log by Windows SharePoint Services, as well as the performance of Windows SharePoint Services components Highlights events that might indicate service outages or configuration problems so users can quickly take action.

Microsoft

Identity Integration Server (MIIS) 2003

Provides monitoring for identity integration scenarios for MIIS 2003.

Microsoft

Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2000, 2004

Monitors the health of IS A 2000 and 2004 Servers by analyzing events, performance trends, and metrics. Allows you to manage bottlenecks, identify capacity requirements, and proactively manage your ISA Server configuration.

Microsoft

Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator (MSDTC) 2000, 2003

Monitors the Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator (MSDTC) service to ensure optimum availability and performance. Ensures transactions that span multiple resource managers, such as databases, message queues, and file systems, occur and perform as expected.

Microsoft

SharePoint Portal Server (SPS) 2003

Monitors events placed in the Application event log. Highlights events that may indicate possible service outages or configuration problems so you can quickly take action.

Microsoft

Windows Active Directory 2000, 2003

Monitors Active Directory events in system and application event logs.

Microsoft

Windows Server Automated Deployment Services (ADS) 2003

Monitors the ADS services application event log. Includes event rules for the ADS Builder service, the ADS PXE service, the ADS Image Distribution Service, and the ADS Controller service.

Microsoft

Windows System Resource Manager 2003

Provides monitoring for critical operational issues for the Windows System Resource Manager (WSRM) service on Windows Server 2003 Enterprise and Datacenter Editions.

Microsoft

Windows Rights Management Services 2003

Helps you manage the operations of RMS servers in your organization by monitoring for events and performance counters that may indicate possible service outages or configuration problems so that you can quickly take corrective and preventative actions.

Microsoft

BizTalk Server 2004

Monitors events placed in the Application event log by BizTalk Server 2004 and Enterprise Single Sign-On. Highlights events that may indicate possible service outages or configuration problems, so you can quickly take corrective or preventative actions.

Microsoft

Citrix MetaFrame XP management pack

Allows monitoring of MetaFrame XP Enterprise Edition presentation servers and server farms with MOM 2000. Administrators can receive errors, warnings, and explanations on MetaFrame XP presentation servers-all from the MOM user interface. Working with MOM, it helps reduce the cost of managing large server farms by giving administrators a holistic view of the health and performance of the entire server farm, including dependent hardware and software, from a single console.

Citrix

Tidal Enterprise Scheduler Adapter

Integrates job scheduling into Microsoft's datacenter operation solution, providing advanced performance and availability management for Enterprise Scheduler.

Tidal Software

Horizon for SAP

Manages incoming SAP system alerts by analyzing each alert in the context of the other alerts, alarms, and state information.

Tidal Software

Virtual Agent for Novell

Monitors and controls Novell servers.

eXc Software

Virtual Agent for Cisco

In SMS, provides hardware inventory and virtual RFID for each interface on a Cisco device. In MOM, monitors and controls Cisco devices.

eXc Software

Virtual Agent for IBM AIX

Provides hardware and software inventory, software distribution, and updating, as well as monitors and controls IBM AIX systems.

eXc Software

Virtual Agent for BlackBerry

Monitors and controls BlackBerry BBS 3.x and 4.x servers.

eXc Software

Virtual Agent for IBM BladeCenter

Monitors and controls IBM BladeCenter.

eXc Software

Virtual Agent for BEA Weblogic/Tuxedo

Monitors and controls BEA Weblogic/Tuxedo Systems.

eXc Software

Virtual Agent for HP-UX

Provides hardware and software inventory, software distribution, and updating, as well as monitors and controls HP-UX systems.

eXc Software

Virtual Agent for Oracle

Monitors and creates a variety of MOM alerts for Oracle on NIX systems and Windows systems.

eXc Software

Virtual Agent for HP Insight Manager

Monitors and controls HP Insight Manager for non-Windows Operating Systems.

eXc Software

Virtual Agent for VMWare

Monitors and controls VMWare systems.

eXc Software

HP Integrity Management Pack

Includes predefined scripts and views for system discovery, rules for detailed state monitoring and event processing, and tasks to launch HP tools for in-depth hardware lifecycle management and advanced remote administration.

HP

HP ProLiant Management Pack

Includes predefined scripts and views for system discovery, rules for detailed state monitoring and event processing, and tasks to launch HP tools for in-depth hardware lifecycle management and advanced remote administration.

HP

HP Insight Management Pack

Integrates event monitoring and alert processing for HP ProLiant and Integrity servers into MOM. Allows viewing of events for Windows operating systems, Windows applications, and HP hardware through a common MOM interface. Includes an extensive collection of predefined rules and scripts that automatically identify HP servers and provide alert notifications to potential problems through the MOM console interface.

HP

SMP for Linux Servers

Monitors operating systems through an in-depth focus on Linux server performance, status, traffic, CPU usage, and file systems providing complex event detection and notification.

JalaSoft

SMP–F5 Network BiglP F5

Includes computer groups, views, and processing rules with thresholds appropriate for monitoring critical indicators and conditions related to interfaces, virtual machines, virtual machine ports, members, real machines, real machine ports, pools, pool members, virtual ports, and more.

JalaSoft

Exchange Reporting

Gathers Exchange data and provides technical reports on Microsoft Exchange service delivery, traffic, storage capacity, and usage.

Quest

Dell Management Pack for MOM 2005

Integrates PowerEdge alerts into MOM. Provides a list of Dell-specific views that you can use to observe the system status in a network.

Dell

Dell OpenManage

Dell OpenManage Connections enable a system administrator to easily manage Dell servers from Microsoft Operations Manager.

Dell

VERITAS Storage Foundation for Windows

The VERITAS Storage Foundation for Windows management pack monitors the events and performance counters generated by disks, disk groups, and volumes managed by VERITAS Storage Foundation 4.3 for Windows (VSFW).

VERITAS


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