Chapter 4. Administering Management Packs
The MOM 2005 components discussed so far provide the functional infrastructure of MOM. Each component plays a specific role in the management group. The agents interact with the managed computers, the management servers communicate with the database and manage the agents, the databases store collected data and configuration information, and the consoles allow interaction with MOM. But the picture is not yet complete. At this point, all the components of a management group are like the members of an orchestra. They are sitting where they are supposed to be in relation to one another, they have a conductor that coordinates the actions of the various instruments, they have tuned up, and the audience is waiting for them to perform. But no meaningful sounds are being made because they have no sheet music—the management packs. Management packs allow the management group to identify the applications on a computer, to group computers by function, and to determine the health of the applications on those servers. They then tell management group components how to notify the outside world of pertinent information, format the information for consumption, and offer tools for troubleshooting the application.
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Install reporting services before you import management packs into the management group. By doing this, the report definitions can be imported at the same time.
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