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The Windows Server 2008 Operating System Management Pack provides the fundamental monitoring basics for computers running the Windows Server 2008 Operating System. By detecting, alerting on, and automatically responding to critical events and performance indicators, management packs reduce resolution times for issues and increase the overall availability and performance of your Windows Server 2008 operating system, thereby helping to reduce the total cost of ownership.

Feature Summary

• Availability
• Key Operating System Services: Required services are checked for status (for example, running, not running, or paused).
• Storage: Logical hard drives are checked for availability, sufficient free space, and integrity of the NTFS partition.
• Network: Network adapters are checked for connection health, name, and IP address conflicts.
• Performance
• System processor(s) performance is checked system-wide. Processors can optionally be monitored on a per processor basis.
• Memory: Memory consists of physical memory and virtual memory (also known as page files) is monitored using the following performance indicators:
• Available memory (in MB)
• Pages per second
• Page file percent usage
• Disks and Partitions: Logical disks/partitions and physical disks are monitored, and performance data is collected for average disk seconds per read, disk seconds per write, and disk seconds per transfer. Depending on which version of the operating system is being monitored, either logical or physical monitoring is enabled by default. Refer to the MP guide for more detail.
• Network Adapter: Network adapters are monitored for the number of bytes received per second, and the total bytes per second. In addition, the health state of the network adapter is evaluated and is set to healthy if connected and Critical if disconnected.

• 8/11/2008 - Original release of the English version, version 1.0

Files

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• Other Software: Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2005

Please refer to MP guide.