Andrzej's "IT Thoughts" Weblog : MOM

Monitoring Active Directory backups with MOM

alipka — Tue, 11 Apr 2006 21:59:00 GMT

Tomek has hinted me with this KB article: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=914034

You can use it to setup monitoring of AD backups (system state backups on domain controllers) with MOM. I have not yet had the time to test it out, but it should be pretty straightforward:

¾ Configure the threshold in registry on the DCs where you do regular backups

¾ Create an alert rule to alert when an event of ID 2089 from NTDS Replication shows up to notify AD administrators that AD backup has not been done within the threshold days window

Monitoring and backing up event logs with MOM

alipka — Sun, 09 Apr 2006 14:01:00 GMT

With MOM you can automate the following tasks:

- check event log free space on MOM agent computers

- backup the event logs to a remote share

I have attached the 2 scripts I used for this (modified well-known scripts from Scripting Center). I also attached a Management Pack AKM with rules that show how you can use the scripts.

IMPORTANT: Deploy this fix before you use the scripts if your MOM agents are running under LOCAL SYSTEM account:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/913366/en-us

This fix addresses an issue where the Local system account running the MOM host process was denied Backup privilege (even if you explicitly granted it to the Local System).

I hope you find this useful.

How to install MOM 2005 and SMS 2003 on a SQL 2005 backend

alipka — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 16:43:00 GMT

I posted an article on this topic if you are interested:

http://blogs.technet.com/alipka/articles/424009.aspx

I went through the routine and found no good documentation on this so I thought I'd put it up.