Monitoring Exchange Server 2007 with System Center Operations Manager

Chapter 5. The First Management Pack: Windows Server

In Chapter 1, you learned about the old-fashioned ways to monitor and debug performance issues on Windows servers. In Chapter 2, you learned some of the key metrics that can affect the performance of Exchange Server. In Chapter 3, you learned the basics of installation and configuration for OpsMgr 2007, and in Chapter 4, you learned how to acquire management packs and to deploy agents in Windows and non-Windows environments.

In this chapter, you will learn more about management packs and how those management packs and the Operations Console can be used to monitor, manage, and track the health of a normal, standard Windows server. Future chapters will specialize in Active Directory, Exchange, ...