Windows Server Internet Information Services 2000 and 2003 Management Pack Guide for Operations Manager 2007

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Applies To: Operations Manager 2007

The Windows Server Internet Information Services 2000 and 2003 Management Pack Guide includes Management Pack overviews, deployment procedures, and scenarios for monitoring Windows Server Internet Information Services (IIS) 2000 and 2003 with Operations Manager 2007. IIS 2000 refers to IIS 5.0 and IIS 2003 refers to IIS 6.0. For more information about Operations Manager 2007, see https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=79243.

The Windows Server Internet Information Services 2000 and 2003 Management Packs include substantial sets of monitors, rules, views, tasks, knowledge, and reports for monitoring the version of IIS included with Windows 2000 Server and Windows Server 2003. This enables Operations Manager 2007 to monitor IIS 2000 and 2003 and their related services for availability, configuration, health, and performance and to display the respective data in ways that are timely and helpful in maintaining uninterrupted service of IIS and the functionality it provides.

The monitors and rules the Management Packs for IIS 2000 and 2003 provide enable Operations Manager 2007 to monitor the following IIS object types:

  • IIS Server Role

  • IIS Web, FTP, NNTP, and SMTP servers

  • IIS Web and FTP Sites

  • IIS NNTP and SMTP Virtual Servers

Note

ASP.NET monitoring is documented in the ASP.NET 2.0 Management Pack Guide. The latest version of Management Pack guides can be found at https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=83259.

Alerts can be raised and the appropriate people notified when issues that cause downtime or poor performance, such as broken links, unavailable sites, and security breaches, occur. The following table provides an overview of the monitoring functionality enabled by the IIS Management Packs for IIS 2000 and 2003.

Functionality Description

Application availability and integrity
  • Alerts and reports on client detected errors, including Server Too Busy.

  • Detects configuration problems with Web sites and applications.

Security
  • Performs basic detection of unauthorized access attempts.

Site Integrity
  • Detects missing links from Web logs.

  • Detects invalid URLs.

  • Detects deactivated Web sites.

World Wide Web Publishing Service specific
  • Worker process failures.

  • Service configuration problems with Web site stopped states.

  • Configuration issues.

  • Web site binding issues.

  • Logging issues.

Related services
  • Unexpected failures.

  • Configuration-related failures.

  • Inability to create application pools.

    Note

    Not applicable to IIS 2000.

  • Identity issues.

  • Service startup and shutdown timeouts.

  • Worker process recycle requests and events.

    Note

    Not applicable to IIS 2000.

Who Should Read This Guide?

This guide is for IIS administrators. Running IIS servers involves doing daily tasks, such as monitoring disk space or Web server availability and performance, which Operations Manager 2007 with the Windows Server IIS 2000 and 2003 Management Packs can do automatically. System designers and architects who plan to develop a fully automated monitoring solution for IIS will also find valuable information in this guide.

This guide assumes that you have a thorough knowledge of IIS 2000 or IIS 2003. For more information about IIS 2000 or IIS 2003, see https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=86945 and https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=86944, respectively.

Document Version

This guide was written based on the March 2007 version of the Internet Information Services 2000 and 2003 Management Packs.

Getting the Latest Management Packs and Management Pack Documentation

This guide was developed with versions 6.0.6539.0 of the Windows Server IIS 2000 and 2003 Management Packs. For the latest version of Management Packs, see https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=82105. For the latest version of Management Pack guides, see https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=83259.

Changes in This Update

The February 2008 release of this management pack with Operations Manager 2007 SP1 includes the following changes:

  • Fixed duplicate display string for Microsoft.Windows.InternetInformationServices.InstanceGroup and Microsoft.Windows.InternetInformationServices.ServerRoleGroup.

  • Fixed problem with parameter replacement for alerts.

  • Fixed problem with version property during discovery.