Monitoring MOM

The section provides guidance for:

• Monitoring the various MOM components and MOM processing activities.

• Monitoring Windows service availability.

• Monitoring communications and access.

• Safeguarding operational data.

• Monitoring performance.

• Job failures and other error conditions.

The monitoring topics in this chapter are based on the MOM deployment scenario referred to, at the beginning of this chapter, and illustrated in Figure 3.5.

Figure 3.5 MOM deployment scenario

Referring to the callouts in Figure 3.5:

• At the agent level (Agent 1, Agent n), the monitoring focus is on the remote agent.

• At the Management Server level (MS01, MS02), the monitoring focus is on the DAS, the local agent, and IIS-- if the Web console is installed on the Management Server.

• For the operational database (DB01), the monitoring focus is on the remote agent and SQL Server.

• For MOM Reporting (DB02), the monitoring focus is on the remote agent, the reporting server, the reporting database, SQL Server, SQL Reporting Services, and IIS.

• In some cases, denoted by an asterisk (*), it is recommended that additional Management Packs are installed to enable more in depth monitoring of a server.

The MOM deployment in your organization may not be as distributed as the one in Figure 3.5, but as indicated in the "Operational data processing cycle" section, every MOM deployment has to collect data from a managed computer, send the data that is collected to a Management Server, and store data in the operational database.

At a minimum, a MOM deployment will have:

• Agent-managed or agentless managed computers

• A Management Server

• An operational database

In the topics that follow, use the information and guidance that is applicable to your MOM deployment.