MOM Overview

Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) records relevant events on monitored servers and notifies operators of problems by sending messages (alerts) to consoles and sending notifications to e-mail addresses or pagers. A MOM system consists of management agents that run on all monitored servers, and an infrastructure that configures the agents to monitor and filter data, collects the filtered data in a central SQL Server database, and then performs further processing and reporting on it. Rules and scripts running on each agent and on the management server determine which events are relevant. Management consoles connect to the database to view system status. (For a graphical illustration of how these components relate to one another, see “MOM 2005 Architecture“.)

Providers

Providers are the raw data sources available to the MOM agent. MOM ships with many general purpose and application-specific providers. The more general purpose of these include the following:

• A “heartbeat” that indicates