Use MOM to manage your network
I was asked by management to see if MOM could manage the network(switches routers etc) so i asked the guys on the MOM email list.
The responded with this:
We may be able to use MOM 2005 to monitor switches and routers provided that they can pass SNMP traffic to a specific server.
There are management packs we could purchase (this looks really cool)
http://www.jalasoft.com/jalasoftweb/jsp/products/categories/categoryProducts.jsp?catId=5
or we could try to do it our selves.
HOWTO: Configure Microsoft Operation Manager 2000 or 2005 to monitor devices by using SNMP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555455
http://msmvps.com/blogs/jfhann/articles/69388.aspx