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MOM 2005 Resource Kit

Published: October 13, 2004 | Updated: February 23, 2006
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MOM 2005 Resource Kit
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The Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2005 Resource Kit contains downloadable tools to help ease the use and administration of MOM 2005 and MOM 2005 SP1:

Management Pack Toolkit

Infrastructure Management Solution Accelerators

MOM Product Connectors

Troubleshooting Tools

MOM Power Toys

The table below provides more information about tools in the resource kit.

Resource Kit Contents

ToolDescription

Management Pack Toolkit

Helps you create, test, deploy, customize, maintain and troubleshoot management packs.

The Management Pack Toolkit includes:

Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) Wizard: Creates a management pack to monitor business processes. By leveraging the BAM components of BizTalk Server, the wizard allows you to build a management pack using BAM Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and raise alerts when these KPIs deviate from normal operating conditions.

Configure Action Account: Helps you configure management packs in a low privilege scenario.

Convert Management Packs to XML (MP2XML): Allows you to convert a Management Pack (AKM) file to XML.

Event Creator: Allows management pack authors to generate an event based on events that are currently registered to the NT Event Log.

Managed Code Response Utility: Makes it easier for you to configure managed code responses in MOM.

Management Pack Differencing Tools: Provides a report on changes from the source to the destination management pack.

Management Pack Wizard: Builds a management pack containing a monitoring role, components for the role and allows you to add state based rules to your management pack for monitoring Windows Services and Windows Performance Counters.

Remove Blank Names: Gives a unique name to rules that have no name so they can be imported.

Resultant Set of Rules: Gives you a way to view the resultant set of rules that are currently targeted to an agent.

Rule and Computer Group Toggle Utility: Allows you to enable or disable computer groups, rule groups, and rules from the command line.

Infrastructure Management Solution Accelerators

Best practice guidance and tools to help you increase your operational efficiency with MOM 2005. Includes the following solution accelerators:

Alert Tuning

Autoticketing

Service Continuity

Multiple Management Group Rollup

Notification Workflow

MOM Product Connectors

Maintain awareness of your system and service availability monitoring across heterogeneous platforms and application environments with:

HP Network Node Manager 1.0 Product Connector for MOM

HP OpenView 1.0 Product Connector for MOM

Tivoli TEC 1.1 Product Connector for MOM

Troubleshooting Tools

Clean-up MOM: Removes any previous version to ensure a clean install.

Management Group Utility: Lists and removes corrupted MOM management groups.

MOM Information Utility: Facilitates common troubleshooting tasks from the command line.

MOM Inventory: Collects MOM configuration information for troubleshooting purposes.

MOM Trace Log Viewer: Allows you to filter on threads/logs and view details of a line. Replaces logview.exe file available in MOM 2000.

MOM Power Toys

Agent Helper: Automatically allows management of agents when there is no heartbeat present by restarting the agents and re-installing them as needed.

Alert to RSS Utility: Now subscribe to alerts via RSS!

Computer Group Hierarchy Utility: Now export your Computer Group Hierarchy and recreate it else where. Also supports creating Computer Groups based on AD containers and it’s hierarchy

Console Scope Utility: Automatically update Console Scope membership with this utility. You can also mirror AD Security Group membership to a console scope using this utility

DAS Role Update Utility: Harden your MOM servers by using this utility to remove the BUILTIN\Administrators group from the MOM Administrator role

Management Group Utility: If you have orphaned Management Group data on your agents from Test Management Groups, then this tool is for you. Allows you to list and remove Management Groups from the agent side

MOM Remote Pre-requisite Checker: Check if the required services and ports are allowed to push an agent or run discovery with this stand alone utility

Operators Console Notifier: Alerts the operator through a pop-up tool.

Password Updater: Enables remote service account renewal.

SharePoint Web Part: Enables you to show MOM data from within SharePoint leveraging the MOM 2005 SDK tools.

Task Launcher: Launches MOM tasks from the command line.

Exchange Server Management Pack Configuration Wizard: Provides a graphical user interface to configure Exchange 2000 and Exchange 2003 Management Pack, including test mailboxes, message tracking, and monitoring services.

Resource Kit Support Disclaimer

The MOM 2005 Resource Kit described on this page is not supported under any Microsoft standard support program or service.

The following tools are no longer included in the MOM 2005 ResKit:

Windows Server Cluster Detection Utility: With the release of MOM 2005 SP1, the ability to detect a Windows Server Cluster has been improved and this utility no longer needed.

Management Pack Version Checker: This utility is now a standalone MP that can be downloaded from the MP catalog at http://www.microsoft.com/mom/managementpacks



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