Monitoring SMS 2003 using MOM 2005
This is the "how to" guide from the web
The Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2005 Management Pack for SMS provides new and improved capabilities for SMS 2003 monitoring, including:
| • | Monitoring the starting and stopping of all SMS 2003 services, including critical dependent services like Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI), Internet Information Services (IIS), Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) and Microsoft SQL Server™. |
| • | Alerting the SMS administrator to critical SMS status messages. |
| • | Monitoring backlogs of discovery data records (DDRs), software inventory, hardware inventory, status messages, and software metering on both primary site servers and management points. |
| • | Monitoring system resource usage. |
| • | Monitoring processing rates. |
| • | Monitoring the performance trends of many SMS performance counters by using views and reports. |
In addition to robust monitoring capabilities, this Management Pack expands on existing features and provides new features:
| • | Product knowledge content for all alerts and processing rules. |
| • | Detecting all SMS 2003 computers and computer groups. |
| • | Views. |
| • | Reports. |
| • | Monitoring of Device Management Feature Pack. |
| • | Tasks for executing SMS Administrator console applications. |
| • | State view containing the health of all SMS server roles and the SMS Advanced Client. |
| • | Service Discovery of important SMS server and SMS client information. |
| • | Suppression of Service Unavailable alerts arising from the execution of SMS Site Backup. |
| • | Topology diagram of the SMS site hierarchy. |
| • | SMS 2003 Service Pack 1 (SP1) configurable alerting on distributed program execution failure through SMS program properties. |