Rob Stevens's WebLog : MOM

MOM 2005 Reskit updated

Rob Stevens — Sat, 25 Feb 2006 23:45:00 GMT

I dont know about you but I think that the RESKIT for MOM is pretty fantastic.......and now look its been updated :-)

http://www.microsoft.com/mom/downloads/2005/reskit/default.mspx

MOM 2005 and ISV Solutions, MOM Connectors, MOM Agents, MOM Management Packs

Rob Stevens — Fri, 11 Feb 2005 11:19:00 GMT

Anyone that is working with MOM 2005 or is looking to deploy it in their own environment needs to be aware of all the great 3rd party additions that are now available.

Check out the Management Pack Catalogue for updates MP's and connectors etc HERE

A partner I know just installed some of the network management additions to MOM for his customer and now the customer can build views of his Application Servers, network infrastructure and get a full picture of what is going on. Even if you have a seperate networking team, bringing this kind of view to the owners of yor application services can be highly beneficial.

Enjoy :-)

MOM 2005 and ISV Solutions, MOM Connectors, MOM Agents, MOM Management Packs

Rob Stevens — Fri, 11 Feb 2005 11:12:00 GMT

Anyone that is working with MOM 2005 or is looking to deploy it in their own environment needs to be aware of all the great 3rd party additions that are now available.

Check out the Management Pack Catalogue for updates MP's and connectors etc HERE

Enjoy :-)

MMS 2005 Session now LIVE!!! emmm Las Vegas :-)

Rob Stevens — Fri, 28 Jan 2005 19:01:00 GMT

http://www.mms2005.com/content/sessions.aspx

MOM 2005 Resource Kit

Rob Stevens — Thu, 27 Jan 2005 19:30:00 GMT

It still amazes me how many people don't know about the resource kit for MOM 2005 and it is such a great bunch of tools which really add value to any MOM administrator's role. The ability to create management packs quickly with the Management Pack Wizard, Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) Wizard, Management Pack Version Checker and lots more. Not to mention cool tools like the Ops Console Notifier.

If you want to take a look at the Reskit, go to: http://www.microsoft.com/mom/downloads/2005/reskit/default.mspx

MOM 2005 Resource Kit

Rob Stevens — Thu, 27 Jan 2005 18:40:00 GMT

If you want to take a look at the Reskit, go to: http://www.microsoft.com/mom/downloads/2005/reskit/default.mspx

MOM 2005 in PC Pro Magazine

Rob Stevens — Wed, 26 Jan 2005 12:03:00 GMT

“In case you are one of those people who likes to hop to the end of the column to see if it is a thumbs up or down, I will put you out of your misery right now: MOM 2005 is now an essential piece of software. If you run Windows servers, you should have MOM 2005 installed - there are no exceptions and no excuses.”

http://www.pcpro.co.uk/realworld/68148/mom-knows-best.html

Need we say anymore !!!

MOM 2005 Management pack for Web Sites and Services

Rob Stevens — Tue, 25 Jan 2005 01:47:00 GMT

A great new Management Pack soon to be available.

The Web Sites and Services MP can be used to monitor availability and performance of Web Sites and Web Services by performing HTTP requests against the monitored entities.

On top of UI features that make it a snap to create Request Sequences for monitoring Web applications and Web Services and on top of core monitoring functionality, Microsoft have added a Web page content monitoring feature. When monitoring a URL that represents a Web page, this feature can parse the Web page content, extract and monitor all content resources (images, scripts, style sheets, etc).

You will find this feature very useful when you care about monitoring resources used by a Web page that change frequently. You could monitor the Web page content by explicitly adding the URLs that point to the resources, but that would require keeping the monitor in sync with the Web page as the resources it uses change.

You will also find this feature useful as a link checker because it can automatically extract and monitor all links on a Web page.

Watch this space for news on the RTW of this great MP

Updated Non Windows Providers for MOM

Rob Stevens — Sun, 23 Jan 2005 14:36:00 GMT

The folks at EXC Software have updated their agents for NON Windows machines, along with updates coming soon for AS400 and z/OS shortly. Check out www.excsoftware.com for more info.