This fix is scheduled to hit the Microsoft support site over the next few days. Details below:
System Center Operations 2007 Service Pack 1
Hotfix Release Notes
SystemCenterOperationsManager2007-SP1-KB951979-X86-X64-ENU.MSI
May, 2008
The information in this article applies to:
System Center Operations 2007 Service Pack 1
Note: This patch applies to System Center Operations Manager 2007 SP1 Only
Summary
Following problems have been identified with a number of System Center Operations Manager 2007 SP1 management packs:
Unable to discover CSDVersion on Windows Vista machines
Unable to discover operating system properties on Windows 2000 SP4
Agent HandleCountThreshold monitor does not restart Health service on exchange agent if HandleCountThreshold is exceeded
ACS Collection rule references a wrong EventID
Performance collection raises erroneous alerts for disabled services due to unavailable perf counters
A script bug prevents cluster discovery where Virtual Server Name is a subset of the Physical Server Name.
This hot-fix resolves these issues.
Symptoms
When affected by these issues, a number of System Center Operations Manager 2007 SP1 management packs will be unable to:
Discover operating system properties on Windows 2000 SP4
Discover CSDVersion on Windows Vista machines
Restart Health service when HandleCountThreshold is exceeded
Collect correct ACS event
Discover cluster where Virtual Server Name is a subset of the Physical Server Name
And additionally generates erroneous Alert for Performance Data Source Module when the services are disabled
After applying this fix, these issues should be resolved.
Installation
This hotfix contains four management packs. Install these management packs from an Operations Manager console.
To extract the management pack files contained in this hotfix:
1. Copy the file:
SystemCenterOperationsManager2007-SP1-KB951979-X86-X64-ENU.MSI
To either a local folder or accessible network shared folder.
2. Then run:
SystemCenterOperationsManager2007-SP1-KB951979-X86-X64-ENU.MSI locally on each applicable computer that meets the predefined criteria.
Note: The installation path is typically the following:
Program Files\System Center Hotfix Utility
You can run SystemCenterOperationsManager2007-SP1-KB951979-X86-X64-ENU.MSI from either Windows Explorer or from a command prompt.
For detailed instructions on the tasks described above, see the Knowledge Base article as referenced in the Additional Information section of this document.
This hotfix contains the following updated Management Packs which must be imported into Operations Manager. These management packs are located in the folder noted above.
Microsoft.SystemCenter.2007.mp (Version 6.0.6278.19)
Microsoft.SystemCenter.ACS.Internal.mp (Version 6.0.6278.19)
Microsoft.SystemCenter.Internal.mp (Version 6.0.6278.19)
Microsoft.Mom.BackwardCompatibility.mp (Version 6.0.6278.19)
Additional Information
For additional information about this issue, see KB article KB951979 at <http://support.microsoft.com/>. For additional information and downloads, see <http://www.microsoft.com/mom>.
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Randy Roffey of Silect asked me to make you all aware of the following Webinar to be held on Wednesday 28th May 2008. Silect are experts on MP management and so this should be a good one.
Enjoy!
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This presentation will focus on process considerations and how MP Studio features can function as the foundation for a repeatable process.
If you have multiple management packs, multiple management groups and multiple administrators working with Operations Manager, having a well defined process is critical to a successful implementation of Operations Manager 2007. Even with smaller implementations, having a defined process for handling change requests for management packs is critical to avoiding costly downtime and unnecessary errors.
If ITIL and MOF are important to you, if Change Management and Version control are important functions in your organization, if auditing changes in management packs is something you would like to be able to do, then this webcast could be the most important event you attend all year!
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Raymond Chou that is 
Raymond is a fellow OpsMgr MVP hailing from Kuala Lampur, Malaysia. He has setup up a great blog of his experiences with OpsMgr which can be found here: http://mymomexperience.blogspot.com/
Pete Zerger, another brilliant MVP made a comment on the blog and I couldn't have put it better myself:
"Raymond is someone with great insights into the product and the process for whom I have a great deal of respect. Definitely one to bookmark."
Andy
Finally a gadget we can all appreciate J
Some very clever people have written and released a Vista sidebar gadget which enables you to search just the System Center group of products or individual System Center products. The results returned are spot on and include data from TechNet, MSDN, Blogs and KB articles.
My good friend Maarten Goet has written a much more eloquent post about this tool which can be found here: http://www.techlog.org/archive/2008/04/30/system_center_content_search
I have 'borrowed' the download link from him though...thanks Maarten J
System Center Content Search
I am very pleased and excited to announce that I am currently working on a set of OpsMgr Level 5 Guides for the Blogcast Repository. Once completed and published, they will cover advanced aspects of OpsMgr such as deploying a gateway server, configuring RMS clustering and creating your first management pack.
I will update my blog again once they are completed with a link to the videos that you can subscribe to but I'd just like to thank Brian and the team at Blogcast Repository for this opportunity!
I hope you find the guides useful. Please feel free to contact me if you have any other ideas for videos as once I finish the initial set, I'll be taking requests J
Whilst you are waiting for my video's to be completed, check out the site here: http://blogcastrepository.com/level5/
Thanks,
Andy
The excellent OpsMgr Authoring Console, used to assist with creating Management Packs, has now been officially released.
Authoring console is now available
Today, April 25, 2008, 3 hours ago | Jonobie Ford
The System Center Management Pack Authoring Console 2007 has been released to the Web! If you'll be at the Microsoft Management Summit next week, stop by the Authoring Session SO04 - Tools and Best Practices for Authoring Management Packs for Operations Manager 2007 session for additional information.
The web package can be downloaded from these links:
http://download.microsoft.com/download/f/4/3/f438d6a0-290c-42b8-8f9c-c6660f89e1aa/OpsMgr07_x64_AuthConsole.exe
http://download.microsoft.com/download/f/4/3/f438d6a0-290c-42b8-8f9c-c6660f89e1aa/OpsMgr07_x86_AuthConsole.exe
The HP BladeSystem MP has been updated to version 1.6.2.
Version 1.6.2 addresses the following:
Bug Fixes:
Fixed the HP BladeSystem Enclosure Monitor Manager to support the regional and language settings on Windows Operating System.
Fixed the HP BladeSystem Management Pack for Alert Parameter Replacement Failure on Operations Manager 2007 SP1.
Download the updated HP BladeSystem Management Pack, version 1.6.2 here.
Thanks to Stuart Renes for the information.
Andy
Just a quick note to say how much I enjoyed the recent MVP Summit. Once again the OpsMgr product team went all out to make the MVP's feel welcome and once again, they succeeded.
Plus there was the added bonus of seeing some of my fellow MVP's again, some of which feel like family now....you know who you are J
Roll on next year!!
Andy
Updated MP: Exchange 2007 MP for MOM 2005 (08.01.0240.001) – now supports Exchange Server 2007 SP1
Yesterday, April 07, 2008, 3:05:00 PM | CliveEastwood![]()
The Exchange 2007 Management Pack for MOM 2005 has been updated and released to the Web http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=30eebc7c-a35a-41ae-9cd1-2047847fde85 . The MP has been undated to add support for Exchange 2007 Service Pack 1.
Release notes for the Exchange 2007 MP can be viewed here http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=7FAEFFB9-A691-44B0-9364-83DA0E55924B&displaylang=en
What changed:
Renamed some event rules to better reflect their purpose
Improved some report descriptions
Updated for performance counter name changes
Fixed PowerShell issue when one or more necessary parameters are not passed to a cmdlet
Updated many reports to use a 90%-100% scale rather than dynamic scale to gain visual fidelity in that range. Affected reports are as follows:
o ActiveSync Internal Service Availability
o Mailbox Service Availability
o Mailflow Local Service Availability
o Mailflow Remote Service Availability
o Outlook Web Access External Service Availability
o Outlook Web Access Internal Service Availability
o Unified Messaging Local Fax Service Availability
o Unified Messaging Local Voice Service Availability
o Unified Messaging Remote Voice Service Availability
Added/Modified Event Rules:
o Added: Transport message rejection because of lack of disk space
o Added: Transport message rejection because of memory consumption exceeding the configured threshold
o Added: 10 error level event rules for Active Directory directory server Rights Management Server (RMS) in the Bridgehead Agents Messaging Policies health manifest
o Added: 3 error level event rules for the Transport receive connector in the Bridgehead Transport common health manifest
o Modified: Escalated "The STARTTLS certificate will expire soon" from warning to error alert
Removed many miscellaneous outdated event rules
Enabled collection of performance data for reporting in Test-WebServiceConnectivity ScriptResponseRule
Added support for Test-ReplicationHealth cmdlet; removed numerous event rules made redundant by this addition
Added support for Test-POPConnectivity cmdlet execution through the management pack and monitoring service
Added support for Test-IMAPConnectivity cmdlet execution through the management pack and monitoring service
Changed all outdated references from "Bridgehead" to "Hub Transport"
Added 'From' and 'MediaSecured' property support for Test-UMConnectivity for the monitoring service
Added 'LightMode' property support for Test-ActiveSyncConnectivity, Test-WebServicesConnectivity and Test-OWAConnectivity
Added 'LightMode' property support for Test-POPConnectivity and Test-IMAPConnectivity
Updated all reports to use provided client language for localized dates
MP Update: Exchange 2003 Management Pack (6.0.6278.5) for Operations Manager 2007
Yesterday, April 07, 2008, 1:30:09 PM | CliveEastwood![]()
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=9ff454f4-6d34-4fb9-9e0b-f5b68c6edc4f&DisplayLang=en
The following list contains the issues that are fixed in version 6.0.6278.5 of the Exchange Server 2003 Management Pack for System Center Operations Manager 2007:
· Fixed an issue with Outlook Web Access (OWA) monitoring using custom URLs so that the Management Pack now looks for the CustomUrls registry key instead of the CustomOwaUrls registry key (consistent with previous versions of the Management Pack).
· Fixed an issue with data collection rules for mailbox or public folder size in MB. On monitored servers running Exchange Server 2003 and using Regional and Language Options other than English (United States) an issue can occur where the size of the mailbox or public folder is reported incorrectly, This will also affect the associated reports.
See the updated MP Guide with the Management Pack.
I have heard rumours over the past few hours that since Microsoft's acquisition of Engyro, they are now offering the Engyro connectors to customers who have purchased OpsMgr 2007 for free!
This is really good news although I am still waiting to find out how to obtain these connectors. I'll blog an update as soon as I have one.
Andy
New news today is that OpsMgr 2007 SP1 has been released. By Monday 25th Feb the updated code should be uploaded to the links below:
- Upgrade:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=EDE38D83-32D1-46FB-8B6D-78FA1DCB3E85&displaylang=en
- Evaluation: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=C3B6A44C-A90F-4E7D-B646-957F2A5FFF5F&displaylang=en
Andy
Hey all,
Firstly I would like to say congratulations to Kerrie Meyler who was awarded her first MVP award today. About time J
Also, I would like to thank everyone who contributed to me being awarded again for the 3rd year running. You know who you are and thanks J
Andy
Just a quick message to wish you all a Happy Christmas and a prosperous New Year! Thanks to everyone who has contributed to the MOM/OpsMgr community this year especially my good friends Pete Zerger, Cameron Fuller and Cliff Hobbs and to all the MVP's.
Thanks to the Microsoft OpsMgr Product team (esp, Justin and Omar) for all your help and support.
Here's hoping I'll be lucky enough to be re-awarded the MVP next year so I can continue to be surrounded by such excellent people.
Andy
Hey,
Just ran into an issue that I thought I'd blog about. I was getting an issue with OpsMgr 2007 SP1 where my SDK and config services would not start on the Root Management Server. In the Operations Manager event log I was seeing Event ID 26380 stating that the SDK service was failing due to an unhandled exception. Further down the description there was an 'Access Denied' to a %Program Files%\System Center Operations Manager 2007 subfolder.
Also in the Application log, I was seeing .NET 2.0 errors everytime I tried to restart the Config service.
After checking folder permissions and various other things, I looked on the net and after trawling for about 30 minutes gave up. I finally stumbled on the issue. For some reason, the user accounts had been removed from the local administrator group on the RMS....Doh!
So if you are seeing the same problem, save yourself a lot of time and check the local administrator group on the RMS first.
Andy
The Microsoft Forefront Security for Exchange Management Pack
for Operations Manager 2007 supports the 10.1 version of Microsoft Forefront Security
for Exchange Server with Service Pack 1. The MP supplies critical events and
alerts on virus and worm activity to Operations Manager 2007, and also monitors
the health and availability of these products.
The Management Pack for Forefront Security for Exchange Server 10.0 can be
found here
The Microsoft Configuration Manager 2007 Management Pack for Operations Manager 2007 provides proactive monitoring of your Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 environment. This management pack includes:
• Detection and monitoring of all Configuration Manager servers and dependent services
• The alert driven state
• The site hierarchy diagram,
• Performance and backlog monitoring and configuration
• Performance and availability reports.
Before you install the Configuration Manager 2007 Management Pack, read the Configuration Manager 2007 User's Guide. The guide includes the instructions you need to correctly deploy, configure and use the management pack.
Feature Bullet Summary:
The System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Management Pack for Operations Manager 2007 provides improved capabilities for Configuration Manager 2007 monitoring, including the following:
• Monitoring the starting and stopping of all Configuration Manager 2007 services, including critical dependent services like Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI), IIS Admin Service, World Wide Web Publishing Service, Windows Deployment Services Server, Trivial FTP Daemon, Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) and Microsoft SQL Server™.
• Alerting the Configuration Manager 2007 administrator to critical Configuration Manager 2007 status messages.
• Monitoring backlogs of discovery data records (DDRs), software inventory, hardware inventory, status messages, state messages, and software metering on both primary site servers and management points.
• Monitoring outbox backlogs on site systems.
• Monitoring a component and site system role health.
• Monitoring collection evaluation, state message summarization, and site maintenance tasks, including site backup.
• Monitoring SMS Executive crash dumps.
• Monitoring general CPU, Memory, and Disk system resource usage.
• Monitoring processing rates.
• Monitoring the performance trends of many Configuration Manager performance counters by using views and reports.
• Product knowledge content for all alerts and processing rules.
• Detecting all Configuration Manager 2007 computers, classes, and computer groups.
• Configuration Manager 2007 views.
• Reports displaying performance, availability, and configuration of Configuration Manager 2007 server groups. These linked reports leverage the enhanced reporting of Systems Center Operations Manager 2007 for performance, configuration, and availability trends.
• Tasks for executing Configuration Manager 2007 Administrator console applications.
• Computer State view containing the health of all Configuration Manager 2007 server roles and the Configuration Manager 2007 Client.
• Site Hierarchy and Site State views for displaying the health of sites in a hierarchy and the hierarchy itself.
• Service Discovery of important Configuration Manager 2007 server and Configuration Manager 2007 client information.
• Topology diagram of the Configuration Manager 2007 site hierarchy.
• Configuration Manager 2007 configurable alerting on distributed program execution failure through Configuration Manager 2007 program properties.
The following Management Packs have recently been updated:
Operations Manager 2007
The links are as follows:
The following Management Packs have been released/updated in the past couple of weeks.
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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
The new OpsMgr 2007 Resource Kit tools have been released to the web.
There are some really cool tools including a Vista sidebar gadget.
Check out Clive Eastwoods blog post for more information:
http://blogs.technet.com/cliveeastwood/archive/2007/09/12/system-center-operations-manager-2007-resource-kit-tools-released-to-the-download-center.aspx
Andy
Microsoft's System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2007 (SCVMM) has released to RTM.
From the Microsoft website:
"Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2007, part of the Microsoft System Center family of system management products, provides a simple and cost-effective solution for unified management of physical and virtual machines, consolidation of underutilized physical servers, and rapid provisioning of new virtual machines by leveraging the expertise and investments in Microsoft server technology."
"Benefits include:
• Centralized deployment and management of virtual machines
• Intelligent Placement analysis to determine the best servers for virtualization
• Quick physical-to-virtual and virtual-to-virtual conversion
• Ease of use with a familiar interface and seamless integration with other Microsoft products
• Faster deployments with administrator-managed self-service provisioning
• Resource efficiency with server consolidation and increased processor utilization
• Quick automation via PowerShell scripting integration"
Try it now.
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More informaiton can be found here: http://www.microsoft.com/systemcenter/scvmm/default.mspx
Andy
The following Management Pack updates are available for Operations Manager 2007.
System Center Operations Manager 2007 Management Pack Update
Brief Description
The Microsoft System Center Operations Manager Management Pack update is an update to the previously released System Center Operations Manager 2007 Management Pack for System Center Operations Manager 2007. This update addresses few enhancements, updated content for rules and monitors and bug fixes.
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Operations Manager 2007 Data Warehouse Library Management Pack
Brief Description
This Management Pack contains definitions and workflows for the Operations Manager 2007 Data Warehouse features
Just a quick post to say I'm back from holiday now and will be posting again!
Ian Blyth has created an Excel spreadsheet to help calculate possible sizes for your Operations Manager databases based on the size estimation figures from Cameron Fuller.
The original article can be found HERE
The Excel Spreadsheet can be downloaded HERE
nWorks have just released their Management Pack for Operations Manager 2007. The nWorks Management Pack provides excellent granular monitoring of VMWare environments and the visualisation of the components in OpsMgr is well laid out.
Check it out here: http://www.nworks.com/vmware/index.php
The Operations Manager Backwards Compatibility MP has been updated to resolve a number of issues and can be downloaded from the following location:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=655cdd06-861e-4342-99b2-8a81e09f6546&DisplayLang=en
The details are as follows:
· Updated MOM 2005 Backwards Compatibility MP (6.0.5000.12)
· Updated System Center Internal Library MP (6.0.5000.16)
· Updated System Center Core Monitoring MP (6.0.5000.16)
· New Backward Compatibility Threshold monitoring type using in Converted MOM 2005 MPs which exposes Threshold values as overrides
· Fixes to the Backward Compatibility Cluster discovery to address problem with converted MPs that monitor clustered Applications
· Fixes conversion issue with MOM 2005 Windows Service rules using wildcards to match on Service names
Well I'm officially knackered now!
Myself and the rest of thee 1E team got back from the Microsoft UK Challenge on Sunday evening after having come it at a very repectable 46th out of 122 teams.
The challenge consisted of running, mountain biking, canoeing and above all, strategy. It was a grueling 3 1/2 days but it was all for a good cause.
The estimated total raised for the NSPCC is an amazing £500,000.
Go Team!!
Andy
Hewlett Packard have announced the release of new Management Packs for Operations Manager 2007.
They have released a new Server Management MP which can be downloaded here: http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/servers/management/mom2007/index.html
And a new Storage Management Pack for users of HP Storage equipment, SAN's etc. This can be found here: http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareIndex.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&prodNameId=499903&prodTypeId=12169&prodSeriesId=499896&swLang=8&taskId=135&swEnvOID=1005
Keep 'em coming!
Andy
The new Vista client Management Pack for Operations Manager 2007 has been released.
- From Microsoft.com -
The Windows Vista Client Monitoring Management Pack is built on the Windows Diagnostics Infrastructure in Windows Vista that detects, diagnoses and tries to resolve hardware and software problems. Information and analysis on the issues that the system detected are collected by the MP through an agent on the client and sent to OpsMgr where this data is converted into health state, alerts (if need be) and processed for aggregate reports. The MP monitors the following areas:
• Disk reliability and utilization
• Memory reliability and utilization
• System performance
o Runtime performance
o Bootup performance
o Shutdown performance
o Sleep performance
o Resume performance
And surfaces information in these areas by:
1. Raising individual alerts when there are impending catastrophic failures
2. Raising trend-based alerts on significant changes to any OEM or computer group in one of the monitored areas
3. Health monitors giving an in-depth view of the health of individual machines with knowledge articles to guide the admin.
4. Reports giving a landscape view of the health of all monitored clients in all the monitoring areas.
Andy
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