System Center Operations Manager 2007 Unleashed

Chapter 17. Monitoring Network Devices

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SNMP Primer

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Network Device Discovery and Administration

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Custom SNMP Rules and Monitors

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In this chapter, we discuss deploying Operations Manager 2007 (OpsMgr) to extend your monitoring reach to those computers and devices not running a Windows operating system. If you have a computer running a Windows operating system that you want to manage, of course you will deploy an OpsMgr agent to that system, or possibly set up that computer for agentless monitoring.

However, what if there are computers not running Windows operating systems? And how do you monitor devices that are not computers—devices ...