Re: [hylafax-users] monitoring hylafax with Microsoft Operations Manager

[Pedro <procadas@xxxxxxxxx>]

Many MS skills that took time to achieve...Where I
work we monitorize at least 206 windows servers with
Nagios. Why not MOM? I don't know, but someone from
our team took the job on hands and the time to
learn...Cheers

Pedro

--- Sam Luxford-Watts <slwatts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Hmm... depends on your point of view. If you are a
> business that has
> limited linux skills, yet has many MS skills and
> over ten times the
> windows servers than linux ones then MOM isn't such
> a mad decision, yes
> you have to pay to monitor each server, but in a
> world where you have to
> pay for someone's time, it actually works out more
> efficient than paying
> someone to setup and configure an open source
> equivalent. It's the mad
> world we live in!
> 
> ... looks like the syslog route may be the way
> forward.... if I make any
> progress I will post it back to the list!
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Sam
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: hylafax-users-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:hylafax-users-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of Michael Stowe
> Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2007 2:16 PM
> To: Sam Luxford-Watts
> Cc: hylafax-users@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [hylafax-users] monitoring hylafax with
> Microsoft
> Operations Manager
> 
> 
> This strikes me as somewhat unusual -- in a truly
> heterogenous
> environment
> (not just different Windows versions) it's weird to
> find somebody
> monitoring *nix servers from Windows and not the
> other way around,
> especially since MOM appears to be the philosophic
> opposite of open
> source
> -- it's a framework designed to let you pay for
> everything you monitor. 
> (Awesome!)
> 
> Out of the box, so to speak, MOM is capable of
> taking a syslog stream,
> so
> if you wanted to leverage your investment in MOM,
> you could point
> hylafax
> at syslog, and point syslog at MOM, then parse out
> anything you cared
> about.  Alternatively, you can write a MOM script to
> poke hylafax's
> ports,
> I suppose, if you wanted to periodically verify its
> operation.
> 
> I have yet to run across anybody who has bothered
> doing either, but that
> doesn't mean they don't exist.  If they have,
> they've probably released
> it
> as a management pack you can pay for.
> 
> 
> > I have searched the lists, but only found
> references to Nagios. Has
> > anyone or is anyone using Microsoft MOM to monitor
> their hylafax
> server?
> > If so what sort of information are you monitoring?
> 
> 
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