The purchase of a System Center Operations Manager 2007 Standard Operations Management License (OML) allows a Windows Server machine to be monitored with any of the following Microsoft-authored management packs.
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Name of Management Pack
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What It Monitors
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| Basic Operating System |
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| Microsoft Server 2000/2003 Operating System Management Pack |
Basic health indicators of a Windows Server system, such as processor, memory, disk health, availability, and key performance metrics |
| Windows System Resource Manager (WSRM) 2003 |
CPU and memory utilization on a per-process basis, for the Enterprise and Datacenter Editions of Windows Server |
| Windows Password Change Notification Service (PCNS) |
Synchronization of password changes in Active Directory to Microsoft Identity Integration Server |
| Baseline Security Analyzer (MBSA) |
Vulnerabilities detected by MBSA, which scans computers and reports on missing security patches and other security vulnerabilities |
| Windows Server Performance Advisor (SPA) 2003 |
Data collected by the SPA tool, helpful for diagnosing the root causes of various Windows Server performance problems |
| Availability Reporting Management Pack |
Windows Server system event logs for entries related to availability and reliability |
| Windows Group Policy (GP) |
GP infrastructure, which lets administrators centrally manage registry and security settings, folder redirection, and other Windows features and services across large numbers of machines |
| File & Print |
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| Windows Print Server |
Windows Server-based print servers |
| Windows Distributed File Systems (DFS) |
DFS service, which allows directories located anywhere on a network to be viewed as a single directory tree, removing the need for users to know on which server a file resides |
| Windows DFS Replication Service |
DFS Replication Service, new to Windows Server 2003 R2, designed to replicate files between servers at geographically disbursed sites over WAN links |
| Windows File Replication Service (FRS) |
File Replication Service, the predecessor to DFS Replication |
| Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) |
Windows SharePoint Services components |
| Networking |
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| Windows Network Load Balancing (NLB) |
NLB server clusters, which distribute incoming client requests across the servers in a cluster and reassign requests to alternative servers should one become unresponsive |
| Windows Server Clusters |
Microsoft's cluster services (MSCS) technology, most often used to provide fault tolerance for SQL Server databases and Exchange Server mail stores |
| Windows Compute Cluster Server (CCS) |
High-performance computing (HPC) clusters composed of machines running Windows CCS, a special version of Windows Server |
| Windows Domain Name Service (DNS) Server |
DNS services, which translate human-readable domain names into machine-readable Internet Protocol (IP) addresses |
| Windows Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) Server |
DHCP servers, which dynamically assign IP addresses and communication options such as default gateways, subnet masks, and routing tables |
| Windows Internet Name Service (WINS) |
WINS service, which maps Network Basic Input/Output System (NetBIOS) names to IP addresses |
