Oops - forgot to mention - SCE is limited to 30 servers (IIRC). The 500 client limit I mentioned earlier was for desktops.
There is no custom report authoring capability in SCE, and it's a single server solution (i.e. like SBS) - so you don't get failover to another management server or anything like that (you are free to use any existing SQL Server though, so I suppose you can always point it to an existing highly available SQL Server for data storage). Ops Manager doesn't really "auto detect" services. Instead you add "Management Packs". Each Management Pack describes a "health model" for a particular product, technology etc (e.g Exchange, or DNS Services, or Active Directory, or IIS or whatever). This includes a list of all the various things that each service uses (e.g. services) and what a health or unhealthy product looks like (this is defined via states for services, events that might be logged, logfiles etc). Some of the more advanced management packs also include synthetic transaction abilities (e.g. the ability to login to Exchange as if you were a client PC, or request web pages from remote machines, or run SQL Server queries). Ops Manager then roles up this health state into a view of your network. If you're familiar with MOF (Microsoft Operations Framework), then you're probably familiar with the concept of a "health model" for your services. You basically define what a healthy network should look like, and then start monitoring for when the symptoms appear that show there's a problem. The MPs are basically "prebuilt" health models for Microsoft and 3rd party products/technologies. Microsoft has a MP catalogue on their website. The benefit of SCE is that it includes some GPOs to configure the firewall for your all your clients, as well as pre-loaded management packs for a bunch of services and so on. Additionally Application Error Reporting can automatically be configured for your clients via supplied GPOs and a wizard. Cheers Ken -----Original Message----- From: Steve Ens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 3 January 2008 2:38 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Monitoring services That helps a lot Ken Good concise technical writing. steve uct. > > Cheers > Ken > > -----Original Message----- > From: Steve Ens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, 3 January 2008 3:07 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: Monitoring services > > Speaking of OpsMgr, I hear there are a number of flavours, such as the > essentials, etc. Anyone testing this out yet? > > On Jan 2, 2008 10:01 AM, Rod Trent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > Yeah...MOM 2005 and now OpsMgr 2007 will do that. You can set it up to > > restart the services automatically, and also alert you through various > > methods when the service is having trouble. > > > > > > > > > > > > From: David Lum [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2008 10:57 AM > > To: NT System Admin Issues > > Subject: Monitoring services > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Is there an app (MOM?) that scans a servers running services and then > > automatically monitors those services to ensure they're running? Surely > > there are a few apps with this capability... > > > > > > > > Dave Lum - Systems Engineer > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (971)-222-1025 > > http://disclaimerpages.com - if you can't get there, this e-mail has no > > legal bindings... > > > > ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~ > ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~
