File Services Management Pack for System Center Operations Manager 2007 – Beta now open
Hi all, Ned here again. We’ve gotten word that the SCOM 2007 management pack for file services has reached beta and is available to the public on our Connect site. Here’s the info:
Overview
The File Services Team is proud to announce the beta release of our File Services Management Pack for System Center Operations Manager 2007. This management pack provides health monitoring for SMB shares, NFS shares, DFS Namespaces, DFS Replication and File Server Resource Manager including the File Classification Infrastructure.
Supported OS Versions
The following table describes which File Services role service can be monitored with the beta management pack on various Windows Server versions:
| Role Service | OS Version Supported |
DFS Namespaces |
Windows Server 2003, 2003 R2, 2008, 2008 R2 |
DFS Replication |
Windows Server 2003 R2, 2008, 2008 R2 |
File Classification Infrastructure |
Windows Server 2008 R2 |
File Server Resource Manager |
Windows Server 2008 R2 |
NFS File Sharing |
Windows Server 2008 R2 |
SMB File Sharing |
Windows Server 2008 R2 |
New Features
The table below describes several of the key features provided in this beta management pack:
| Feature | Description |
Agentless Monitoring |
Ability to monitor file services on servers without deploying a SCOM agent to the specific server |
Highly Available Cluster Instance Monitoring |
Ability to monitor the health status of a Highly Available File Server deployed on a Failover Cluster |
NFS Role Service |
Monitor activity logging, NIS configuration, port registration, portmaper service, NFS service driver, username mapping service, and more |
FSRM Role Service |
Monitor FSRM service, quota driver, filescreen driver, file classification task progress, and orphaned mountpoints |
DFSR Role Service |
Monitor the health of DFS Replication service, communications with replication partners, database recovery, communications with Domain Controllers, free space on volume containing a replicated folder, USN journal wrap events, overlap with FRS, inconsistent configuration, and more |
DFSR Backlog Tracking |
Ability to display the backlog count per connection for a DFS replication group |
DFSR Performance Counters |
Track data for bandwidth ravings, replication conflicts, deleted files and staging area |
DFS Namespace Role Service |
Monitor DFS namespace service, health of a single namespace hosted on multiple servers, health of the AD component of DFS namespaces, site table initialization, namespace initialization, Namespace Synchronization with AD, Folder Target Health and more |
SMB Role Service |
Monitor the health of Lanman server service, creation of shares at system startup, IRP stack overflow events, firewall port configuration |
Download Instructions
- Log on to Microsoft Connect and create a profile if you have not already created a profile
- Navigate to Connection Directory
- Search for File Services and Storage and select Apply Now
- Fill-out application survey
- Log on to File Services and Storage connection
- Click the announcement: Beta release of SCOM Management Pack for File Services in Server 2008 R2
- Follow instructions to download the Management Pack
Feedback Instructions
Submit feedback through the connection [Ned: and not through AskDS! Remember, Beta means not supported – this is for testing].
- Ned “press agent” Pyle