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You should now have a full set of tools to help you understand, monitor, analyze, and troubleshoot your SMS site and site systems. This chapter reacquainted you with Performance Monitor as a server optimization tool, including several objects and counters that can help you assess the performance of your SMS site systems. HealthMon and Network Trace provide a high-level view of the health of a system and a site map. The Event to Trap Translator adds value to a network using SNMP services by translating Windows NT events into SNMP traps that can be forwarded to an SNMP manager. Network Monitor offers a rich network of frame analysis tools to assist you in determining the health of your network, including locating congested segments or unresponsive routers. Network Monitor has been updated to include experts and monitors to facilitate frame analysis and highlight specific events.

Part II will concentrate on the discovery of resources in your SMS site and, at long last, the client installation, inventory collection, and remote control services.