Introduction
So by now we’ve got it all worked out.The MOM system is monitoring the Microsoft
environment, and everything is running smoothly.There are still a couple of weak
points, however. For instance, how can we tell if all the disks in the RAID controller
or the memory are okay? Unless you put in the extra effort, MOM won’t be able to
determine this. It’s at these times when hardware monitoring comes in handy.
Managing Server Hardware
The main problem of hardware monitoring is hardware support.The hardware should
be able to report to Windows, or even better, to the event log for easy access to hard-
ware events.Another option is to use Windows ...