MOM, a key building block in the System Center family of management products, is designed
to simplify monitoring and management of large, heterogeneous IT infrastructures.
I’ll walk you through the process of creating a new MOM Management Pack that can be
used to monitor certain security events in your domain controller (DC) Security event
logs. In addition, I’ll show [...]
Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) is a great tool for keeping an eye on your environment,
but it can sometimes be tricky to monitor a particular activity. If the activity can
be watched through the Windows event log or a counter in Performance Monitor, then
it is relatively easy to create a corresponding rule in MOM. If the activity [...]
At the time of its release, MOM 2005 included a resource kit, but it was refreshed
in February 2006 and contains some nifty new tools, divided into five categories as
shown in Figure
1. We’ll explore only the first three here. Look for a follow-up in the coming
months where we’ll discuss the connectors and accelerators.
Source: System
Management: Essential Tools [...]
If you are part of the Sysem Center 2007 Beta Program, then you should
have already received the email from the beta site that the Beta is available for
download.
If your not part of the beta try to apply at http://connect.microsoft.com
Microsoft
System Center Virtual Machine Manager is the latest addition to the System Center
family of management products and provides centralized management of Windows Virtual
Machine infrastructure. Virtual Machine Manager enables increased physical server
utilization, centralized management of virtual infrastructure and rapid provisioning
of new virtual machines by the administrator and end users.
•Product Overview
•Register for the Beta
System
Center Virtual Machine Manager.
Microsoft System Center Reporting Manager 2006 delivers a rich platform for enterprise
analysis of management data so that IT administrators and managers can query, report,
and forecast IT operations for higher service quality at a lower price. The foundation
of System Center Reporting Manager 2006 is a new data warehouse that integrates multi-management
groups from MOM and multiple SMS [...]
Ran
across this on another site, read for more details.
Google
Groups: microsoft.public.mom.managementpack.sql.
As a heavy Blackberry Server user, this could be useful. I am downloading a trial version to test.
ivision:
solutions
Scripting for MOM brings together resources for system administrators who are interested in writing scripts for use with Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM). We will be adding new content and scripts periodically %u2013 so check back with us every once in a while. We%u2019d like to be sure we%u2019re continuing to meet your needs, so let [...]
With our recent implementation of MOM 2005, we are trying to update some of our custom
internal IT applications so that they can be monitored more effectively using MOM.
So in essence, I have been trying to get a web service to log results to the application
event log on the web server.
The first thing I ran into [...]