Monitoring Exchange 2000 with Microsoft Operations Manager 2000

Published: October 1, 2002

By Dale Koetke, Sean O'Brien, Jyoti Kulkarni

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The Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server monitoring tools that are available in System Manager are sufficient for monitoring individual Exchange servers. However, as deployments increase in complexity, monitoring servers becomes increasingly difficult.

The Exchange 2000 Server component of Microsoft Operations Manager 2000 Application Management Pack version 1.0 - Exchange 2000 Management Pack - is designed to aid you in achieving the highest possible server availability. A key feature of this Exchange 2000 Management Pack is that you can monitor all of your servers running Exchange from a single console or Web page. The Exchange 2000 Management Pack monitors the performance, availability, and security of your servers running Exchange, alerting you to events that have a direct impact on server availability while filtering out events that require no action. Through alerts, knowledge base solutions, and reports, the Exchange 2000 Management Pack helps you correct problems long before a catastrophic failure occurs. The Exchange 2000 Management Pack also includes reports that allow you to summarize server availability and analyze trends.

The Exchange 2000 Management Pack is designed to help e-mail administrators of all experience levels monitor and manage an Exchange 2000 deployment. The detailed alert descriptions and integrated knowledge base empower less experienced Exchange administrators by helping them diagnose problems before the problems require escalation to area experts. Over time, a company can build a customized knowledge base by adding information that is specific to its own environment, allowing all administrators to respond to issues more rapidly and efficiently.

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Number of Pages: 19

Table of Contents

• Introduction

• Exchange 2000 Management Pack Features

• Additional Resources