Configuration Manager 2007 management pack has been released

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 06:44:01 Z

Configuration Manager 2007 can now be monitored with Operations Manager 2007, Microsoft released the management pack last week.

Below a list of some items that are monitored:

• Monitoring the starting and stopping of all Configuration Manager 2007 services, including critical dependent services like Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI), IIS Admin Service, World Wide Web Publishing Service, Windows Deployment Services Server, Trivial FTP Daemon, Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) and Microsoft SQL Server™.
• Alerting the Configuration Manager 2007 administrator to critical Configuration Manager 2007 status messages.
• Monitoring backlogs of discovery data records (DDRs), software inventory, hardware inventory, status messages, state messages, and software metering on both primary site servers and management points.
• Monitoring outbox backlogs on site systems.
• Monitoring a component and site system role health.
• Monitoring collection evaluation, state message summarization, and site maintenance tasks, including site backup.
• Monitoring SMS Executive crash dumps.
• Monitoring general CPU, Memory, and Disk system resource usage. • Monitoring processing rates.
• Monitoring the performance trends of many Configuration Manager performance counters by using views and reports.
• Product knowledge content for all alerts and processing rules.
• Detecting all Configuration Manager 2007 computers, classes, and computer groups.
• Configuration Manager 2007 views.
• Reports displaying performance, availability, and configuration of Configuration Manager 2007 server groups. These linked reports leverage the enhanced reporting of Systems Center Operations Manager 2007 for performance, configuration, and availability trends.
• Tasks for executing Configuration Manager 2007 Administrator console applications.
• Computer State view containing the health of all Configuration Manager 2007 server roles and the Configuration Manager 2007 Client.
• Site Hierarchy and Site State views for displaying the health of sites in a hierarchy and the hierarchy itself.
• Service Discovery of important Configuration Manager 2007 server and Configuration Manager 2007 client information.
• Topology diagram of the Configuration Manager 2007 site hierarchy.
• Configuration Manager 2007 configurable alerting on distributed program execution failure through Configuration Manager 2007 program properties.

You can download the management pack here

Regards,

Jannes Alink

Configuration Manager 2007 management pack has been released

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 12:28:05 Z

Is the Management pack going to be updated any time soon for the R2 features?

Configuration Manager 2007 management pack has been released

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 16:26:33 Z

I'm not sure what R2 features would necessitate management pack monitoring (can you let me know what ones you are insterested in specifically). However, I'll check to see if there are any plans for an updated version.

Configuration Manager 2007 management pack has been released

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 21:01:13 Z

I checked, and there are no plans for an updated management pack for SP1 or R2.