Views - FFSMP for SCOM 2007

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The Microsoft Forefront Server Security Management Pack for Operations Manager 2007 provides a set of views that are accessible through the Monitoring space of the Operations Manager 2007 Operator Console. These views separate and filter the alert, state, event, and performance data received from Operations Manager 2007 agents into a relational hierarchy.

This is the Views hierarchy:

Microsoft Forefront Server Security. Views of data for all Forefront Server Security products.

  • Alerts – Microsoft Forefront. All alerts for monitored Forefront Server Security systems. These are the alerts generated by Alert Rules. While event views show you the success or failure of, for example, engine updates, alert rules would normally only show you failures (since you would not choose to be alerted to the success of an update process). If an alert can apply to any Microsoft Forefront product, it will only appear in this section. If an alert applies to a specific Forefront product (for example, Microsoft Forefront Security for Exchange Server), it will appear both here and in the specific section (for example, Alerts – Forefront For Exchange).

  • Events – Microsoft Forefront. All events for monitored Forefront Server Security systems.

  • State View. The state of all monitored Forefront Server Security systems. State View displays a "summarized state" of your systems that matches a set of specified criteria. By observing the red, yellow, and green icons you can instantly determine if any of your servers are in less than "healthy" condition.

  • Task Status View. The status of all tasks run on monitored systems.

  • Engines

    • Engine Update Failure. Problems encountered when attempting to update engines, including warnings about engines being out of date.

    • Engine Update Status. The status of the engines, showing successful engine updates.

  • Forefront For Exchange. Views of data for Forefront for Exchange Server systems.

    • Alerts – Forefront For Exchange. Shows all alerts for Forefront for Exchange Server systems.

    • Events – Forefront For Exchange. Shows all events for Forefront for Exchange Server systems.

    • Scan Jobs. Shows the performance data for Forefront for Exchange Server systems. Statistics are graphed for Realtime and Transport items that were scanned, detected, cleaned, removed, purged, and tagged. There is a job that shows the scan rate for the Realtime and Transport jobs. These are all presented as graphed output. Other jobs show Scan Job Failure and Scan Job Status.

    • Services. Shows Service Failure and Service Status for Forefront for Exchange Server systems. The Service Status view shows events that indicate the Stop and Start status of the services.

For more information about the criteria for these Views, see Views reference - Forefront Security for Exchange Server - FFSMP for SCOM 2007.