Introduction

The degree to which you can integrate non-Windows systems into MOM 2005 depends on what technique you use to manage that resource. To collect a sufficient amount of data to drive MOM s alert system, custom providers (using the MOM 2005 SDK) are needed to interact with the instrumentation exposed by the operating system as well as accompanying management packs with the associated event and alert rules. Third-party software vendors have developed solutions to extend the functionality of MOM into the non-Windows arena. In this chapter, we will look at two different approaches to managing non-Windows resources, agentless and agent-based.