Chapter 15. Monitoring and Reporting

Windows Essential Business Server (EBS) 2008 includes Microsoft System Center Essentials. System Center Essentials is a complete system health application designed for small to midsize businesses that includes update management and application deployment (covered in Chapter 9) as well as full-featured monitoring and reporting on the health of your network.

In this chapter, we’ll focus on the health monitoring and reporting features of System Center Essentials. System Center Essentials gives you the ability to quickly see the overall health of your network and then drill down to look at individual computers or types of alerts. The System Center ...

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