Summary

Utilizing MOM to manage your infrastructure can dramatically reduce the amount of time is takes to get monitoring in place. The sample exercises should demonstrate that setting up rules is not exactly a small feat. Imagine this multiplied by hundreds of rules.

We discussed the following topics in this chapter:

• Importing management packs

• Computer Groups

• Discovered Groups

• Rule Groups

• Event Rules

• Performance Rules

• Alert Rules

• Notification Groups

• Scripts

• Providers

With management packs, most of what an administrator needs is set up already. Now that you understand the components of a management pack, continue to Chapter 9 where we further the discussion on management packs (specifically those offered by Microsoft).