Hardware monitoring is essential in providing the best availability possible.A couple
of vendors publish a management pack at the Microsoft site:The HP management
pack supports the HP Integrity and HP ProLiant series servers,and the Dell
Management Pack supports the PowerEdge series server.The implementation of
these management packs depends on the installation of the vendor-supplied manage-
ment software.
In this chapter,we took a closer look at how to monitor Intel-based hardware.
Using hardware monitoring,we were able to discover hardware failures that other-
wise wouldn’t show up in the MOM Operator console.An example of this would
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