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October 2007 - Posts

New and Updated OpsMgr 2007 Management Packs

The following Management Packs have been released/updated in the past couple of weeks.

Active Directory Federation Services 2003

The ADFS Management Pack monitors the health of ADFS components. It includes a set of views, and it provides monitoring for the following core components: Federation Service, Federation Service Proxy, Claims-aware Web Agent, and Windows NT token-based Web Agent. The ADFS Management Pack detects problems with health and availability, and it provides alerts for those problems. Requires OpsMgr 2007 MOM 2005 Backward Compatibility MP Update) 6.0.5000.12 (or higher)

Microsoft

10/01/2007

Compute Cluster Server 2003

The Microsoft Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 Management Pack monitors performance, health and availability of Microsoft Windows Compute Cluster 2003 (CCS). This management pack includes rules that monitor critical CCS services, capture operational errors, and collect important cluster performance counters. By alerting on critical operational issues, this Management Pack highlights problems with the Windows Compute Cluster early so administrators can take action quickly. And by collecting and providing views of important performance counters, this Management Pack increases the ability of cluster administrators to monitor cluster performance. Requires OpsMgr 2007 MOM 2005 Backward Compatibility MP Update 6.0.5000.12 (or higher)

Microsoft

10/01/2007

Live Communications Server 2005

This MP is designed to be used for monitoring LCS 2005 events, collecting LCS component-specific performance counters in one central location, and for raising alerts for operator intervention as necessary. By detecting, sending alerts, and automatically responding to critical events, this Management Pack helps indicate, correct, and prevent possible service outages or configuration problems, allowing you to proactively manage DNS and identify issues before they become critical. The management pack monitors and provides alerts for automatic notification of events indicating service outages, performance degradation, health monitoring, and centralized management. Requires OpsMgr 2007 MOM 2005 Backward Compatibility MP Update) 6.0.5000.12 (or higher)

Microsoft

10/01/2007

Windows DHCP Server 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. Requires OpsMgr 2007 MOM 2005 Backward Compatibility MP Update 6.0.5000.1 (or higher). 9/28/2007 - Updated Release Version 6.0.5000.33

Microsoft

10/01/2007

Windows Server 2000/2003 Operating System

Microsoft Windows Server 2000/2003 Operating System provides the fundamental monitoring basics for computers running the Windows Server 2000 and 20003 Operating System. 9/28/2007 - Updated release Version 6.0.5000.25

Microsoft

10/01/2007

Windows Distributed File Systems 2003

The Distributed File System 2003 Management Pack monitors events placed in the Application event log by DFS and raises alerts to indicate possible service outages or configuration problems that require operator intervention. Using embedded expertise, this Management Pack highlights performance, health, and availability conditions that indicate problems. It can even identify issues before they become critical, thus providing you with a level of customer responsiveness that increases the overall availability and performance of your Windows Operating Systems. As a result, this Management Pack will reduce the cost of ownership by enabling proactive management and reducing resolution times for the issues identified. By detecting, alerting on, and automatically responding to critical events and performance indicators, this Management Pack helps indicate, correct, and prevent possible DFS service and share outages, and plays an important role in ensuring that your DFS infrastructure is working correctly and available.

Microsoft

09/24/2007

Windows DNS Server 2000/2003

This MP is designed to be used for monitoring DNS 2000 or DNS 2003 events, collecting DNS component-specific performance counters in one central location, and for raising alerts for operator intervention as necessary. By detecting, sending alerts, and automatically responding to critical events, this Management Pack helps indicate, correct, and prevent possible service outages or configuration problems, allowing you to proactively manage DNS and identify issues before they become critical.

Microsoft

09/24/2007

AEM (Agent-less Exception Monitoring)

A Management Pack that enables you to identify generic errors sent by Windows Error Reporting (WER) clients to Management Servers that are AEM-enabled. Without this mapping function these errors appear in Operations Manager as "unknown application" and "unknown version".

Microsoft

09/12/2007

Thanks,

Andy