eXc Software s solution uses a WMI non-Windows Event Provider that facilitates the collection of performance and event data into MOM 2005.

Virtual Agents are a combination of scripts and jobs that are used to set up and invoke the management routines that interact with Linux and UNIX systems.

eXc Software Virtual Agents are configured using the eXc Software Configuration Utility/GUI. With this tool, you can configure the hosts monitored by the Virtual Agent, processes to be monitored, performance thresholds, syslog settings, and the Virtual Agent job settings.

eXc Software s base framework provides an extensible platform to develop custom solutions using both SNMP and CLI-based protocols.

The SNMP COM objects can be used to perform catch or generate SNMP traps as well as perform standard GET and SET commands against any SNMP-enabled system. The CLI COM object, TelnetAutomation, can be used to connect to managed hosts via Telnet or SSH, run command, and record the results or output from the commands.

Jalasoft s Xian 2005 Network Manager Server (NMS) that is comprised of multiple components that can scale to support any size infrastructure.

Xian 2005 supports the Red Hat and SuSE Linux distributions and the Sun Solaris operating system.

The Xian NMS uses the Microsoft Connector Framework (MCF) to integrate with MOM 2005.

Although not as extensible as eXc s solution, Xian 2005 offers a UNIX Agent...