We use Active Administrator for monitoring AD changes such as new users/computers and OU/group changes (is also a backup of these changes that can be reversed), and Event Sentry for monitoring services/hardware on servers.
Don Guyer Systems Engineer - Information Services Prudential, Fox & Roach/Trident Group 431 W. Lancaster Avenue Devon, PA 19333 Direct: (610) 993-3299 Fax: (610) 650-5306 [email protected] From: Rob Bonfiglio [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2009 9:57 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Orion APM vs SCOM We are looking at some products to do monitoring and notification for things like Active Directory and Exchange. I'm sure there will be other uses as well. Right now I am looking at Orion Application Performance Monitor and SCOM. I was wondering if you all have a preference and why. I am also going to take a look at WMI Monitor (SolarWinds free product.) I plan on loading up both pieces of software into VMs and doing an eval on them. But I wanted to see what others' experiences have been. Also, if you can suggest any other software, I'd like to hear suggestions too. It has to run on Windows. Thanks! Rob ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
