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Essential Microsoft Operations Manager
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Essential Microsoft Operations Manager

by Chris Fox
February 2006
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
384 pages
10h 37m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Summary

The entire MOM 2005 infrastructure exists to execute the instructions in management packs, and MOM 2005 serves no purpose without them. The management pack life cycle should be predictable. This chapter described the necessary steps to control the versioning, tuning, backup, and restore of management pack life cycles. Management packs consist of rule groups, providers, computer groups, scripts, attributes, and tasks, although only rule groups, computer attributes, and providers are required for the most basic management pack.

Tuning management packs occurs in two phases: the first is in preproduction where you enable and disable rule groups and individual rules based on their applicability to your environment. Ensure alerts are of the desired severity and that the right people are being notified. Once a management pack is deployed into production, the second phase of tuning occurs, focusing on alert reduction. Noise alerts are tuned out by creating overrides. Alerts that are generated by a single rule are more tailored to the different machines that they have been applied to and, therefore, produce more relevant information.

In addition to tuning out noise, once in production, a management pack is enriched with company knowledge gained from the troubleshooting efforts. This makes the management pack invaluable to anyone else that must troubleshoot an alert raised in MOM. The solution to this problem has already been found and captured.

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