For those that were looking forward to this, Microsoft has just released the Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Management Pack monitors the health and state of Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0.
The Management Pack does the following:
- Monitors events placed in the application event log
- Highlights events that might indicate possible service outages or configuration problems, so you can quickly take corrective or preventive actions
- Provides the knowledge and expertise you need to leverage System Center Operations Manger 2007 and get an immediate return on your investment
Here is a summary of its feature set:
- Monitors whether the application pool account has insufficient permission to add or read users from the Active Directory
- Monitors for issues arising from improper configuration of the authentication provider
- Monitors backup failures and recycle bin quotas
- Monitors for connectivity problems with computers running SQL server
- Monitors for issues arising from the deployment and topology of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
- Monitors events related to the health of the tracing infrastructure
- Monitors connectivity with the SMTP server
- Monitors whether the application pool account has problems writing to disk or a registry key
- Monitors connectivity with Windows Rights Management Services servers
- Monitors performance counters
- Monitors events that are critical to the sound operation of the search service
- Monitors Windows service availability
- Monitors events associated with the Timer service
- Monitors events associated with failures to load event handlers and safe control assembly paths
Required Software: System Center Operations Manager 2007, Windows Server 2000/2003 OS Management Pack
Required Management Pack Update: Requires OpsMgr 2007 MOM 2005 Backward Compatibility MP Update 6.0.5000.1 (or higher)
Download Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Management Pack for Operations Manager 2007 [direct link to Windows Sharepoint Service 3.0 System Center Operations Manager 2007 MP.msi]
