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 groupsPerformance 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 |