The degree to which you can integrate non-Windows systems into MOM 2005
depends on what technique you use to manage that resource.To collect a sufficient
amount of data to drive MOM’s alert system,custom providers (using the MOM 2005
SDK) are needed to interact with the instrumentation exposed by the operating
system as well as accompanying management packs with the associated event and alert
rules.Third-party software vendors have developed solutions to extend the function-
ality of MOM into the non-Windows arena.In this chapter,we will look at two dif-
ferent approaches to managing non-Windows resources,agentless and agent-based.
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