Essential Microsoft Operations Manager

Importing Management Packs into Preproduction

Chapter 3 left off with agents deployed and their health confirmed. Some agent heartbeat data was returned from the agents to the management server. This is because the MOM 2005 management pack is automatically imported when the management server is installed and distributed to the agents. This management pack was expanded in Figure 3-40.

Microsoft supplies management packs for most of its server products; see http://www.microsoft.com/management/mma/catalog.aspx for the current listing. They also ship 11 of the most commonly used management packs on the MOM 2005 product CD. If you are working with the MOM 2005 Workgroup edition, all of these are imported during setup.

For the MOM 2005 full edition of the product, you must import all management packs and reports manually. To start importing a management pack, first make sure that you have downloaded the most current version. Create a network share to store these management packs. In Figure 4-1, it is called the File transfer folder . In this folder, create three subfolders: CurrentMP, OldMP, and VendorSupplied. Place all the downloaded management packs in the VendorSupplied folder. Each of the management pack executables creates a folder as it extracts. In the contents of the extracted management pack folder, each management pack file ends with the .akm extension, and reports have the same name but end with Reports.xml.

On one of the management servers, open the Administrator console ...