Working with views

 

The Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 (Operations Manager 2007 provides a set of views that are accessible through the Monitoring space of the Operations Manager 2007 Operations Console. Views separate and filter the alert, task status, state, and performance data received from Operations Manager 2007 agents into a relational hierarchy.

There are both common views (views common to all Forefront products) and views for Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server (FPE).

There are several view types, each displaying a different aspect of monitoring data and each with a different icon. These are the various types of views:

  • Alert View
    Displays alerts that meet your specific criteria, such as alert severity, resolution state, or alerts that are assigned to you.

  • State View
    Displays relationships between features, computers, and computer groups

  • Performance View
    Customizes how you want to view performance data collected from performance objects and counters. This includes the ability to view historical and current operational data together.

  • Task Status View
    Displays tasks that meet criteria specified in the properties, such as only those tasks that apply to certain object types.

  • Web Page View
    Displays a Web page in a separate window in the Operations Console.

  • Dashboard View
    Allows you to arrange and view any data that Operations Manager 2007 is gathering, such as designing a view that shows two different view types side by side in one window.

Views reference

This is a reference to each of the Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server (FPE) views included in the Microsoft Forefront Server Protection Management Pack for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 (Operations Manager 2007).

Note that only the lowest level folders view monitored items. For more information about views, see Working with views. For more information about the views hierarchy, see "About the folder structure" in Installing the management pack.

Common views

These views are common to FPE and FPSP (Forefront Protection 2010 for SharePoint) and are not specific to servers running a particular Forefront product. They contain summaries of all the Forefront Protection Suite (FPS) managed servers.

All of these views are contained within the structure of the top level folder called Microsoft Forefront Server Protection 2010 (Microsoft.ForefrontServer.Library.Folder)

View

Purpose

View Type

Path

Microsoft Forefront Server Protection 2010

Contains views of data for all managed FPS servers.

Not applicable

Microsoft Forefront Server Protection 2010

Alerts

Displays alerts from all managed servers. These are the alerts generated by alert rules, which normally only show failures (because you would not choose to be alerted to the success of an update process). If an alert applies to any FPS product, it only appears in this section. If an alert applies to a specific Forefront product (for example, Forefront Protection for Exchange Server), it appears both here and in the specific section for that product (for example, Forefront Protection for Exchange Server \ Alerts).

Alert

Microsoft Forefront Server Protection 2010\Alerts

Task Status

Displays the status of running or completed tasks on all managed servers. If the status applies to a task on any FPS product, it only appears in this section. If the status applies to a task for a specific Forefront product (for example, Microsoft Forefront Protection for Exchange Server), it appears both here and in the specific section (for example, Protection for Exchange Server \ Task Status).

Task Status

Microsoft Forefront Server Protection 2010\Task Status

Common

Contains views relating to engines and licenses on all managed FPS systems.

Not applicable

Microsoft Forefront Server Protection 2010\Common

Engines

Contains views relating to the status of engine updates and the state of the engines on all managed FPS systems.

Not applicable

Microsoft Forefront Server Protection 2010\Common\Engines

Engine State

Displays the state (health) of all enabled engines on all managed servers.

State

Microsoft Forefront Server Protection 2010 Common\Engines\Engine State

Engine Update Alerts

Displays alerts generated when there are problems in updating engines, including warnings about engines being out of date.

Alert

Microsoft Forefront Server Protection 2010\Common\Engines\Engine Update Alerts

License

Contains alerts about license expiration and the status of licenses on all managed FPS systems.

Not Applicable

Microsoft Forefront Server Protection 2010\Common\License

License Alerts

Displays alerts associated with the licenses on all managed servers.

Alert

Microsoft Forefront Server Protection 2010\Common\License\License Alerts

License State

Displays the state of all licenses on all managed servers. This shows you whether a license is close to expiring or has already expired.

State

Microsoft Forefront Server Protection 2010\Common\License\License State

Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server views

These are the views that are specific to servers running FPE.

All of these views are contained within the structure of the folder called Forefront Protection for Exchange Server (Microsoft.ForefrontServer.FPE.Folder). The data is rolled up into the Microsoft Forefront Server Protection 2010 parent folder.

View

Purpose

View Type

Path

Forefront Protection for Exchange Server 2010

Contains views of data for all managed FPE servers.

Not applicable

Microsoft Forefront Server Protection 2010 \ Forefront Protection for Exchange Server

Alerts

Displays alerts (active or resolved) for each managed FPE server.

Alert

Microsoft Forefront Server Protection 2010 \ Forefront Protection for Exchange Server \ Alerts

State

Displays the state (health) of services, jobs, engines, licensing, and online services for each managed FPE server. By observing the red (unhealthy), yellow (warning), and green (healthy) icons you can instantly determine if any of your servers have problems.

State

Microsoft Forefront Server Protection 2010 \ Forefront Protection for Exchange Server \ State

Task Status

Displays the status of running or completed tasks on each managed FPE server..

Task Status

Microsoft Forefront Server Protection 2010 \ Forefront Protection for Exchange Server \Task Status

Scan Job Performance

Contains the performance counters for all managed FPE systems, presented as graphed output. The scan rate for the jobs is shown, as is scan job failure and scan job status.

Not applicable

Microsoft Forefront Server Protection 2010 \ Forefront Protection for Exchange Server \Scan Job Performance

Realtime Scan Performance

Displays the realtime scan performance counters for each managed FPE server.

Performance

Microsoft Forefront Server Protection 2010 \ Forefront Protection for Exchange Server \Scan Job Performance\Realtime Scan Performance

Scheduled Scan Performance

Displays the scheduled scan performance counters for each managed FPE server.

Performance

Microsoft Forefront Server Protection 2010 \ Forefront Protection for Exchange Server \Scan Job Performance\Scheduled Scan Performance

Transport Scan Performance

Displays the transport scan performance counters for each managed FPE server.

Performance

Microsoft Forefront Server Protection 2010 \ Forefront Protection for Exchange Server \ Scan Job Performance \ Transport Scan Performance