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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:
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.
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
NFS File Sharing
SMB File Sharing
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
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- Ned “press agent” Pyle