MOM “Wave 2” Management Packs Have Released
Today marks a milestone for MOM 2005 with the release of a new set of MOM 2005 Management Packs – the ten “Wave 2 MPs”.
* This release almost doubles the number of MOM 2005 enhanced Management Packs available for Microsoft products.
* It greatly enhances MOM’s capability to manage these crucial applications by adding state monitoring, tasks and new reports.
This release contains the following Management Packs:
1. Microsoft Virtual Server
2. Microsoft Windows Distributed File Services
3. Microsoft Windows Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol Services
4. Microsoft Windows File Replication Services
5. Microsoft Windows Print Services
6. Microsoft Windows Terminal Services
7. Microsoft Windows Application Center
8. Microsoft Windows Desktop Base Operating System
9. Microsoft Availability Reporting
10. Microsoft Web Sites and Web Services (Already shipped on 03/09/2005)
Highlights in this list include the much requested Virtual Server Management Pack, a Desktop Management Pack for monitoring mission critical desktop machines, a management pack designed to provide state-of-the-art availability reporting based on the Reliability Analysis Service technology, and the Web Sites and Web Services Management Pack.
This release also marks another first for MOM in terms of localization: these Management Packs are sim-shipping in all three additional languages!
Want to learn more? The full set of 168 Management Packs and connectors available for MOM – including 108 from our ecosystem of partners – can be found at http://www.microsoft.com/management/mma/catalog.aspx.