Microsoft Operations Manager - Updates & News, March 2005
Released: Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server Management Pack for Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2005
The ISA Server Management Pack monitors ISA Server events and alerts. With detailed alert information you can quickly identify and troubleshoot ISA Server issues, minimizing time-to-resolution when problems occur. Collect and analyze performance trends and metrics. Performance information allows you to manage bottlenecks, identify capacity requirements, and proactively manage your ISA Server configuration to resolve issues before problems occur.
The ISA Server Management Pack helps you:
- View state monitoring to quickly assess the overall availability and health of your ISA Server deployment.
- Monitor alerts identifying ISA Server configuration issues. Check the availability of ISA Server services, and critical dependent services such as Network Load Balancing, Routing and Remote Access, and ADAM.
- Monitor capacity and performance. Monitor performance counters to track trends in ISA Server components such as cache, Web proxy, and Firewall. Thresholds based on performance counters trigger alerts for critical issues.
- Get detailed information for troubleshooting alerts and events.
Released: Microsoft MOM 2005 Workgroup Evaluation Software
MOM 2005 Workgroup Edition provides event management, proactive monitoring and alerting, and system -and application-specific knowledge to help you reduce costs and improve availability in small targeted Windows Server System-based environments (of 10 or fewer servers).
Now Available: Active Directory Management Pack Technical Reference for MOM 2005 (French, German, and Japanese)
This document provides a detailed technical reference for Active Directory Management Pack (ADMP) for Microsoft® Operations Manager (MOM) 2005. ADMP is designed for administrators who are responsible for maintaining a healthy Active Directory® service.
This document provides an overview of ADMP, and it explains how ADMP defines “health” for Active Directory components. This document also contains information about the Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) providers and the algorithms that are used by ADMP monitoring scripts, which perform much of the work involved in monitoring Active Directory.
Now Available: Monitor Your .NET Applications with Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 Whitepaper
Learn about Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 architecture and create custom management packs for your .NET-based applications.
TechNet Webcast: How Microsoft IT Microsoft Develops an Operations Manager 2005 Custom Management Pack (Level 200)
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 - 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM Pacific Time
Mark Pohto, IT Senior Technologist, Microsoft
The Microsoft Information Technology (Microsoft IT) group supports internal line of business (LOB) applications. To improve monitoring of these applications and to help reduce downtime, Microsoft develops custom management packs for the LOB applications and deploys them to Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) servers inside Microsoft IT. This session examines the process that Microsoft IT uses and recommends to plan, develop, and deploy custom MOM management packs.
TechNet Webcast: Customizing Management Packs for MOM 2005 (Level 200)
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 - 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM Pacific Time
Chris Hallum, Program Manager, Microsoft
Uncover the ease of creating Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2005 Management Packs, including what makes up a management pack, how management packs have been enhanced in MOM 2005, and how to create your own custom management packs for monitoring custom developed applications. Join us for this webcast where we will walk-through the management pack creation process.
TechNet Webcast: Managing Exchange 2003 with MOM 2005: Better Together (Level 200)
Friday, March 25, 2005 - 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM Pacific Time
Chris Hallum, Program Manager, MOM, Microsoft
Learn how Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2005 and the Exchange Server 2003 Management Pack for MOM 2005 can help improve the health and performance of Exchange Server 2003 through specialized, proactive monitoring and alerting. This webcast explores the wide range of valuable tools and knowledge contained in this Management Pack and shows how you can use them to identify, understand, and resolve IT health issues to keep Exchange running and your organization's e-mails flowing.
TechNet Webcast: Managing SQL Server 2000 with MOM 2005 (Level 200)
Friday, March 25, 2005 - 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM Pacific Time
Vipul Shah, Program Manager, Microsoft
Understand how you can ensure your SQL Server is highly available by using the Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2005 management pack for SQL Server. In this webcast we will walk through some of the key features of the management pack including SQL Server state monitoring, reporting, tasks, performance monitoring and the new features of the management pack including the monitoring of Blocked Processes and Long Running Jobs.
