Monitor the Health and Performance of Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway (TMG) 2010

The Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway (TMG) 2010 is the solution to allow your employees to safely use the Internet.  To assure that it is operating optimally, the Operations Management Pack for Forefront Threat Management Gateway (TMG) 2010 – released earlier this month (version 7.0.7695.1) - includes monitors and rules to track the deployed topology & features, performance, availability, and reliability of Forefront TMG 2010.

With this management pack you can proactively manage your Forefront TMG 2010 deployment, enabling you to analyze performance trends and metrics, manage bottlenecks, and identify capacity requirements.  Some of the key features incorporated into the management pack include:

• Topology and feature deployment
• Events indicating service outages
• Alerts indicating configuration issues and connected data source changes
• Verification that all dependant services are running
• Configuration storage synchronization

Download the Operations Management Pack for Forefront Threat Management Gateway (TMG) 2010 today!  For more information on System Center and Forefront, click the following links:

• Forefront TMG 2010
• Operations Manager 2007 R2

Customers still running the Microsoft Internet Security and Accelerator (ISA) Server can also monitor the health and performance of their environment with the following options:

• Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2006 Management Pack for OpsMgr 2007 at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=C576FCDF-42F0-4EB5-990D-E8E7C7E9C07E&displaylang=en&displaylang=en
• Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2004 and 2006 Management Pack at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=6BF3B468-0473-41A1-9EA1-F3BCEC7AA562&displaylang=en&displaylang=en

Sacha Dawes, CISSP
Sr. Technical Product Manager
System Center Solutions for Dynamic Datacenters