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 |
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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 |